Patent ID: 7085346

Claim:
Arrangement for a film cassette image data receiving means for use in mammography, said arrangement comprising: a cassette tunnel arranged in a mammographic imaging apparatus, which cassette tunnel includes a space into which the cassette is insertable via at least one feed/eject opening in said cassette tunnel, which said space is so disposed that said space is at least partially located in an imaging area of the mammography apparatus, wherein the arrangement comprises means for moving the cassette in the aforesaid cassette tunnel, said means for moving the cassette including means for drawing the cassette into said cassette tunnel and ejecting the cassette out of the cassette tunnel, and wherein said means for moving the cassette further includes control means for moving the cassette to a desired position in said cassette tunnel, and wherein the arrangement further comprises means for detecting the entry of the cassette in said cassette tunnel and for transmitting a start signal to said means for moving the cassette.