Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Method and apparatus for creating coherent bundle of scintillating fibers
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Application No.: US16024086Application Date: 2018-06-29
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Publication No.: US10399887B2Publication Date: 2019-09-03
- Inventor: Theodore F. Morse , Rajiv Gupta , Avilash Cramer , Christopher Bull , Paul Waltz , Angus Kingon
- Applicant: Brown University
- Applicant Address: US RI Providence
- Assignee: BROWN UNIVERSITY
- Current Assignee: BROWN UNIVERSITY
- Current Assignee Address: US RI Providence
- Agency: Adler Pollock & Sheehan P.C.
- Main IPC: G01J1/58
- IPC: G01J1/58 ; C03B37/012 ; B29C43/00 ; G01T1/20 ; G02B6/08 ; B29C43/58 ; B29D11/00 ; C03B27/00 ; G02B6/04 ; G02B6/24 ; G02B6/00 ; B82Y15/00 ; B29K105/16 ; B29K23/00 ; B29K25/00 ; B29K77/00
Abstract:
A method and apparatus to manufacture a coherent bundle of scintillating fibers is disclosed. A method includes providing a collimated bundle having a glass preform with capillaries therethrough known in the industry as a glass capillary array, and infusing the glass capillary array with a scintillating polymer or a polymer matrix containing scintillating nanoparticles.
Public/Granted literature
- US20190010076A1 METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CREATING COHERENT BUNDLE OF SCINTILLATING FIBERS Public/Granted day:2019-01-10
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