Patent ID: 6121629
Filing Date: 2000-09-19
Classification: G01T

Abstract:
A radiation image erasing apparatus for moving a stimulable phosphor sheet, on which energy having been stored thereon during its exposure to radiation remains, with respect to a plurality of fluorescent lamps, which produce erasing light, irradiating the erasing light to the stimulable phosphor sheet while the stimulable phosphor sheet is being moved, and thereby releasing energy remaining on the stimulable phosphor sheet,wherein the plurality of the fluorescent lamps are located such that they may stand side by side with one another in a direction that intersects perpendicularly to the direction along which each of the fluorescent lamps extends, andthe direction, along which the stimulable phosphor sheet is moved with respect to the plurality of the fluorescent lamps, coincides with the direction along which each of the fluorescent lamps extends.