Patent ID: 7589341

Claim:
An integrated x-ray image capture and readout system, comprising: a cassette enclosure having a form factor corresponding to a standard radiographic film cassette, the form factor corresponding to a thickness of the cassette enclosure of about 0.6 inches; a storage-phosphor plate operable to capture incident x-rays corresponding to an image; a stimulating light source operable to expose a surface of the storage-phosphor plate to stimulating light; an array of detectors positioned to receive stimulated light via the surface of the storage-phosphor plate, the stimulated light being released from the storage-phosphor plate in response to the stimulating light; and an actuator assembly operable to effect relative motion between the surface of the storage-phosphor plate and each of the stimulating light source and the array of detectors in one dimension; wherein the storage-phosphor plate, the stimulating light source, the array of detectors, and the actuator assembly are enclosed in the cassette enclosure.