Patent ID: 7427769

Claim:
A method for the processing of an image carrier for the storage of X-ray information, comprising: providing the image carrier with an electronic memory for the storage of calibration data of the image carrier that represent a measure of a sensitivity of the image carrier to X-ray radiation; accessing and using the calibration data from the electronic memory of the image carrier in a processing of image signals that are obtained on reading the X-ray information of a first X-ray photograph from the image carrier by a read-out device during a first reading of the image carrier; storing the calibration data, after a reading of the calibration data from the electronic memory of the image carrier by the read-out device, so that the calibration data continue to be stored both in the electronic memory of the image carrier and also in a central memory or in a memory of the read-out device after the image carrier has been used to store new X-ray information of new X-ray photographs and prior to subsequent readings of the new X-ray information by the read-out device; and during subsequent readings of new X-ray information from the same image carrier by the read-out device, using the calibration data of this image carrier that are stored in the central memory or in the memory of the read-out device, which were accessed and stored from the first reading of the image carrier, in a new processing of image signals that are obtained in the subsequent readings of the new X-ray information from the image carrier.