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7612342 |
Very bright scintillators
The present application discloses methods and devices for increasing the light output of a scintillator. Using the methods of the present disclosure, a very high intensity electric field is applied...
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7601963 |
High-resolution depth-of-interaction PET detector
A depth of interaction-sensitive crystal scintillation detector features crystal types that alternate in three-dimensional checkerboard fashion, each type having a different crystal decay time. One...
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7595493 |
Radiation detecting apparatus, manufacturing method thereof, scintillator panel and radiation detecting system
A radiation detecting apparatus includes a sensor panel 100 , a phosphor layer 111 formed on the sensor panel 100 to convert a radiation into light, and a phosphor protecting member 110 ...
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7541589 |
Scintillator compositions based on lanthanide halides, and related methods and articles
A scintillator composition is described, including a matrix material and an activator. The matrix material includes at least one lanthanide halide compound. The matrix can also include at least one...
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7538330 |
Radiation detection apparatus and scintillator panel
A radiation detection apparatus includes an optical detector disposed on a substrate and having a plurality of photoelectric conversion elements which convert light into an electrical signal, and a...
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7535009 |
Device for generating images and/or projections
The invention relates to a device for generating images and/or projections, which device includes a device for the detection of input radiation. The device for the detection of input radiation...
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7521685 |
Structured scintillator and systems employing structured scintillators
A structured scintillator and a detection system employing structured scintillators. More specifically, a structured scintillator comprising a scintillator material having a plurality of isolated...
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7495223 |
Photomultiplier tube, photomultiplier tube unit, and radiation detector
A photomultiplier tube, a photomultiplier tube unit, and a performance-improved radiation detector for increasing a fixing area of a side tube in a faceplate while increasing an effective sensitive...
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7489077 |
Multi-anode type photomultiplier tube
A glass container has a faceplate, a side tube, and a bottom. A photocathode is formed on the inner side of the faceplate. The glass container includes a partitioning wall, a shield electrode, a...
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7479638 |
Arrangement of a scintillator and an anti-scatter-grid
The invention relates to the production of a scintillator system which comprises an Anti-Scatter-Grid ( 20 ) and an arrangement of scintillator cells. In a first processing step, a rectangular...
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7453067 |
Detector with a scintillator, and imaging unit having such a detector
A detector is disclosed, including at least one scintillator and at least one photodiode, connected to one another by a connecting medium. The scintillator has a defined depression for holding the...
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7439515 |
Pipeline processing of pulse pile-up correction in a nuclear medicine imaging system
Correction of scintillation event data from a nuclear medicine imaging system for effects of pulse pile-up is carried out by separating event data packets into total energy and individual detector...
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7435975 |
Scintillator plate for radiation and radiographic image detector
A scintillator plate for radiation containing a substrate having thereon a fluorescent layer, wherein the fluorescent layer contains CsF crystals.
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7435965 |
X-ray detector and method for production of x-ray images with spectral resolution
The invention concerns an x-ray detector with a plurality of layers arranged one top of one another in the incident direction of the x-rays, whereby each of the layers comprises at least one...
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7417237 |
Radiographic image conversion panel for mammography and method of manufacturing the same
The radiographic image conversion panel for mammography includes a phosphor layer formed on a rectangular substrate having first and second pairs of two parallel sides, and sealed with a...
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7412024 |
X-ray mammography
A digital x-ray phase contrast soft tissue imaging and mammography system offers significant cancer detection sensitivity and a significant improvement in accurate detection and interpretation of...
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7408164 |
Detector array utilizing air gaps as a reflector between array elements
A detector array including a plurality of scintillators for use in association with an imaging device. The detector array is provided for accurate determination of the location of the impingement...
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7388208 |
Dual energy x-ray detector
A dual-energy x-ray detector includes a plurality of x-ray detector elements that detect x-rays that are generated by an x-ray source and that have passed through an object. Each of the x-ray...
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7381956 |
Detector element for spatially resolved detection of gamma radiation
The invention relates to a detector element ( 1 ) for gamma radiation, which is particularly suitable for use in a PEF apparatus. The detector element ( 1 ) consists of two or more different...
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7372045 |
Scintillator plate for radiation
An object is to provide a scintillator plate exhibiting even sharpness, and further exhibiting enhanced sharpness by use of CsI crystals. Disclosed is a scintillator plate for radiation comprising...
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RE40291 |
Radiation detection device and method of making the same
Light-receiving devices are two-dimensionally arranged on a substrate, bonding pads electrically connected to the light-receiving devices in the respective rows or columns via signal lines are...
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7365336 |
Scintillator-based low energy particle imaging spectrometer
The Low-energy Imaging Particle Spectrometer (LIPS) is configured as a “pinhole camera” with particle-specific scintillator focal planes. The scintillators are designed specifically to respond...
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7361902 |
Radiation detector with a detection field comprising scintillators and photodiodes
The invention relates to a radiation detector for detecting radiation impinging in a detection zone, having detector elements which are arranged in the form of a preferably two-dimensional array in...
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7351525 |
Positronium-mediated method for identifying a contaminant gas in a gaseous mixture
The present invention discloses an in vitro method to identify a contaminant gas in a specimen comprising a mixture of gases as a function of the decay rate of at least one species of positronium....
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7329875 |
Detector array for imaging system and method of making same
A method of manufacturing a detector array for an imaging system, the method comprising providing a pixelated scintillator having a plurality of lost molded pixels comprising a scintillator...
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7326933 |
Radiation or neutron detector using fiber optics
A radiation or neutron detector wherein lateral side light detecting optical fibers prepared from clear optical fibers that are scraped on a lateral side to permit side incidence of fluorescence...
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7310405 |
High-Z cast reflector compositions and method of manufacture
A scintillator pack comprises an array of scintillator pixels and an x-ray absorbing layer disposed in inter-scintillator regions between the scintillator pixels. The x-ray absorbing layer acts to...
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7286640 |
Dual-band detector system for x-ray imaging of biological samples
A digital dual-band detector functions as an imaging platform capable of extracting hard and soft tissue images, for example. The detector has a first detector system comprising a first...
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7285783 |
Multi-anode type photomultiplier tube and radiation detector
A side tube includes a tube head, a funnel-shaped connection neck, and a tube main body, which are arranged along a tube axis and which are integrated together into the side tube. The size of a...
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7282713 |
Compositions and methods for scintillator arrays
A composition including at least one of a glass composition and a glass ceramic composition, the composition includes a plurality of scintillator crystals.
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7279120 |
Doped cadmium tungstate scintillator with improved radiation hardness
This invention provides novel cadmium tungstate scintillator materials that show improved radiation hardness. In particular, it was discovered that doping of cadmium tungstate (CdWO 4 ) with...
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7276705 |
Luminescent body for an X-ray detector and method for producing it
A luminescent body is for an X-ray detector, in particular for an X-ray computer tomograph. It contains a ceramic of the general composition (M 1-x Ln x ) 2 O 2 S, M being at least one element...
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7274023 |
Gamma-radiation detector module for portal applications
The gamma-radiation module includes a housing having a box-like container and a cover for hermetically sealing a pair of cylinders within the housing. Each cylinder includes scintillation material...
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7271395 |
Device and method for the measurement of depth of interaction using co-planar electrodes
A device and method for measuring a depth of interaction of an ionizing event and improving resolution of a co-planar grid sensor (CPG) are provided. A time-of-occurrence is measured using a...
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7265357 |
Process for producing a scintillator layer for an x-ray detector, and scintillator layer
A scintillator layer is disclosed for a spatially resolving X-ray detector. Apertures provided in a plate and in the form of a grid, are filled with a filling compound formed from a polymer and a...
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7244943 |
X-ray image acquisition apparatus
An X-ray image acquisition apparatus ( 15 ) includes a conversion panel ( 20 ) aligned with a photo detector array ( 40 ). The conversion panel ( 20 ) includes a plurality of conversion cells ( 22...
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7238944 |
Detector for x-ray computer tomography scanners
A detector for x-ray computer tomography scanners, includes a number of adjacent detector lines extending in an x direction, whereby each detector line is formed from a multitude of adjacent...
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7238943 |
Asymmetrically placed cross-coupled scintillation crystals
Systems and methods are described for asymmetrically placed cross-coupled scintillation crystals. A method includes coupling a plurality of photomultiplier tubes to a scintillation crystal array,...
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7202479 |
Method for assigning a pulse response to one of a plurality of pulse types with different decay times and device for carrying out said method
A method for assigning a pulse profile, in particular a pulse profile of a scintillation detector having at least two scintillation materials with different decay characteristics, to one of a...
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7196331 |
Detector module
A detector module is proposed for producing an X-ray detector for an X-ray computed tomograph. The module includes a number of detector units, each including sensor elements arranged next to one...
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7180070 |
Radiation detector
A radiation detector for imaging a sheet-shaped beam ( 11 ) of ionizing radiation comprises an electron multiplication chamber ( 12 ) filled with a medium for electron multiplication; and a solid...
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7166849 |
Scintillator array for use in a CT imaging system and method for making the scintillator array
A scintillator array for use in a CT imaging system and a method for making the scintillator array are provided. The scintillator array includes a plurality of projecting elements disposed...
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7138632 |
Radiation detector
A plurality of optical transducers converts the first radiation to a first light having a first wavelength, and converts the second radiation to a second light having a second wavelength. A...
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7132664 |
Method and apparatus for improving PET detectors
The present invention is directed to a system, method and software program product for implementing 3-D Complete-Body-Screening medical imaging which combines the benefits of the functional imaging...
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7115876 |
Imaging array and methods for fabricating same
A radiation detector includes a first array including a first photon incident surface, a second array including a second photon incident surface, and a scintillator array extending from the first...
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7115875 |
PET scanner with photodetectors and wavelength shifting fibers
A method for estimating a location of a most-likely photon source on a scintillator block includes obtaining a measured photodetector signal indicative of a distribution of photons received by a...
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7105826 |
Imaging array and methods for fabricating same
A radiation detector includes a first array including a first photon incident surface, a second array including a second photon incident surface, and a scintillator array extending from the first...
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7102135 |
PET scanner
A positron emission camera comprising a plurality of scintillators, wherein the scintillators include LuAlO 3 :Ce (Lu x Y 1−x AP where 0.5≦x≦0.995) based crystals ( 18,20 ). In particular,...
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7098460 |
Monolithic structure for x-ray CT collimator
A conversion device for use in an imaging system is provided. The conversion device includes a first perforated plate portion forming a plurality of collimator channels separated by a plurality of...
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7091490 |
Depth of interaction detector with uniform pulse-height
A depth of interaction detector with uniform pulse-height comprises a multi-layer scintillator obtained by coupling at least two scintillator cells on a plane and then stacking the planar coupled...
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