Digital bucky device including grid storage

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EP 1 316 843 A3

(12)	EUROPEAN PATENT APPLICATION

(88)	Date of publication A3:
	02.01.2004 Bulletin 2004/01

(43)	Date of publication A2:
	04.06.2003 Bulletin 2003/23

(21)	Application number: 02258122.7

(22)	Date of filing: 26.11.2002

(51)	International Patent Classification (IPC)⁷: G03B 42/02, G03B 42/04, A61B 6/00, G21K 1/02

(84)	Designated Contracting States:
	AT BE BG CH CY CZ DE DK EE ES FI FR GB GR IE IT LI LU MC NL PT SE SK TR
	Designated Extension States:
	AL LT LV MK RO SI

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Priority:

26.11.2001 US 994469
03.12.2001 US 6986

(71)	Applicant: Edge Medical Devices Ltd.
	Raanana 43654 (IL)

(72)	Inventors:
	Sas, Benjamin Rehovot 76469 (IL) Zur, Albert Ganei Tikva 55900 (IL) Bachar, Baruch Givatayim 53360 (IL)

(74)	Representative: Curtis, Philip Anthony et al
	A.A. Thornton & Co., 235 High Holborn London WC1V 7LE London WC1V 7LE (GB)

(54)	Digital bucky device including grid storage

(57) A bucky device and method including an X-ray image detector, an anti-scatter grid, a first chamber disposed to house the grid in an active position in which the grid is positioned upstream of the X-ray image detector in respect to x-ray impingement and a second chamber disposed to house the grid in a storage position in which the grid is positioned downstream of the X-ray image detector in respect to x-ray impingement.

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