| US 7,601,973 B2 | ||
| Radiography system and method for recording X-rays in phosphor layers | ||
| Joerg Frankenberger, Markt Schwaben (Germany); Robert Fasbender, Erlangen (Germany); Clemens Herrmann, Hamburg (Germany); Johan Lamotte, Rotselaar (Belgium); Stephan Mair, Weilheim (Germany); and Horst Scherer, Koblenz (Germany) | ||
| Assigned to Agfa-Gevaert HealthCare GmbH, Leverkusen (Germany) | ||
| Filed on Feb. 09, 2006, as Appl. No. 11/351,231. | ||
| Claims priority of application No. 05101135 (EP), filed on Feb. 15, 2005. | ||
| Prior Publication US 2006/0180773 A1, Aug. 17, 2006 | ||
| Int. Cl. G03B 42/08 (2006.01) | ||
| U.S. Cl. 250—484.4 | 11 Claims |
| 1. A radiography system, comprising:
a recording device for recording X-rays in phosphor layers with the use of X-ray radiation,
a recording control for controlling the recording device to record:
1) in a first phosphor layer having a first thickness d1, an X-ray with a first energy limit of the X-ray radiation, and
2) in a second storage phosphor layer having a second thickness d2 which is greater than the first thickness d1, an X-ray
with a second energy limit of the X-ray radiation, the second energy limit of the X-ray radiation being greater than the first
energy limit of the X-ray radiation,
a read-out device for reading out the X-rays recorded in the phosphor layers and comprising an irradiation device for irradiating
a phosphor layer with stimulation light which can stimulate the phosphor layer into emitting emission light, and
a read-out control for controlling the irradiation device to emit stimulation light pulses with a specific pulse duration
Ts, the pulse duration Ts of the stimulation light pulses being shorter in first read-out mode for reading out the first phosphor
layer than in a second read-out mode for the second phosphor layer.
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