US 7,573,034 B2
Mobile radiography image recording system
Michael D. Heath, Rochester, N.Y. (US); and Joshua M. Sibermann, Rochester, N.Y. (US)
Assigned to Carestream Health, Inc., Rochester, N.Y. (US)
Filed on May 18, 2006, as Appl. No. 11/436,311.
Claims priority of provisional application 60/682362, filed on May 18, 2005.
Prior Publication US 2006/0261296 A1, Nov. 23, 2006
Int. Cl. G01T 1/10 (2006.01); G01T 1/161 (2006.01); G03B 42/04 (2006.01)
U.S. Cl. 250—361R  [250/363.02; 250/370.08; 250/370.09; 378/181] 21 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An electronic apparatus for capturing information associated with an x-ray image recordable on an x-ray imaging plate, the apparatus comprising:
a housing configured to be held in a hand of a user of the apparatus;
a receiving area formed in the housing, for selectively and individually receiving either a first x-ray imaging plate comprising a computed radiography cassette or a second x-ray imaging plate comprising a digital radiography image receptor, the receiving area retaining a received x-ray imaging plate in a position for image capture during patient exposure;
a display disposed in the housing;
a power supply disposed in the housing for powering the display;
one or more non-image sensors disposed in the housing adapted to collect non-image information associated with the x-ray image recorded on the x-ray imaging plate received in the receiving area; and
a computer system disposed in the housing, the computer system including memory adapted to receive, measure, store, and subsequently communicate to another computer system, the collected information from the non-image sensors and associated with the x-ray image recorded on the x-ray imaging plate.