Computed radiography scanner and envelope for imaging plates
AssigneeCarestream Health, Inc.
InventorsAmir Berger, Amit Schnell
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Abstract
A scanner for processing intra-oral flexible information carrier plate exposed to X-rays and an envelope for the plate. The scanner comprises housing with an opening for entering an enveloped plate. The envelope is provided with a protrusion and the opening of the scanner is provided with a shoulder. When the enveloped plate is entered in the opening the protrusion abuts the shoulder such that the plate is allowed to exit from the envelope and pass inside the housing while the envelope is retained outside the housing.
Claims18
A scanner for processing intra-oral flexible carrier plates exposed to X-rays and transported to the scanner being dressed in envelopes, each of the envelopes having a protrusion on an outer surface, the scanner having a housing with an opening for entering an enveloped plate inside the scanner, wherein the opening is configured as an entry slot having a barrier, wherein the protrusion on the envelope engages the barrier to prevent entrance of the envelope inside the housing while allowing the plate to exit from the envelope and passing the plate inside the housing.
An envelope for an intra-oral flexible information carrier plate which is intended upon exposure to X-rays to be transported to a scanner for digital radiography processing, the envelope comprising a frontal and rear layer defining a compartment for enclosing the plate inside and having an outer surface, the envelope having a protrusion on the outer surface, which upon entering an enveloped plate inside the scanner through a scanner opening is adapted to engage the opening to allow exiting the plate from the envelope and passing the plate inside the scanner while retaining the envelope outside the scanner.
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