The Howard Hughes Medical Institute cassette for storage phosphor plates

Journal Article · Tue Mar 01 00:00:00 EST 1994 · Review of Scientific Instruments

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1063/1.1145125· OSTI ID:142745

Staudenmann, J; Zotterman, W L; Cook, D W; Ogata, C M; Hendrickson, W A ^[1]

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1. Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Synchrotron Resource, NSLS-X4, Building 725, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11973-5000 (United States)

New cassettes for 201 mm{times}252 mm (8{double_prime}{times}10{double_prime}) and 201 mm{times}400 mm (8{double_prime}{times}15.75{double_prime}) storage phosphor plates have been developed at the Synchrotron Resource of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. The purpose for this work was mainly twofold. Firstly, to diminish the number of manual operations when putting the storage phosphor plate into the cassette or when extracting it from the cassette. Secondly, to render such a cassette much lighter than the former metal cassette previously in use. These two goals were achieved by making new cassettes that are operated as one piece instead of two or three independent parts as with the former systems. The cassettes have been extensively tested and found to be very useful.

• OSTI ID: 142745
• Journal Information: Review of Scientific Instruments, Vol. 65, Issue 3; Other Information: PBD: Mar 1994
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

42 ENGINEERING NOT INCLUDED IN OTHER CATEGORIES
PHOSPHORS
CONTAINERS
DESIGN
PLATES
STORAGE
PERFORMANCE TESTING
NSLS