Patent ID: 7329891

Claim:
A read-out device for reading out X-ray information stored in phosphor layers, comprising: a read-out control for controlling the read-out device such that, a first storage phosphor layer, which has a first thickness d 1 , is read out from the read-out device controlled in a first read-out mode, a second storage phosphor layer, which has a second thickness d 2 which is greater than the first thickness d 1 , is read out from the read-out device controlled in a second read-out mode, the second read-out mode being different from the first read-out mode; and means to produce a picture made up from a large number of pixels during the read-out of the storage phosphor layer, the size (B z , B v ) of the pixels being smaller in the first read-out mode than in the second read-out mode.