Patent ID: 7573034

Claim:
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.