Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Device for the detection of gamma rays with interaction depth and time-of-flight encoding
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Application No.: US17793818Application Date: 2021-01-20
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Publication No.: US12078766B2Publication Date: 2024-09-03
- Inventor: Jose Maria Benlloch Baviera , Antonio Javier Gonzalez Martinez , Victor Ilisie , John Barrio Toala , Efthymios Lamprou
- Applicant: UNIVERSITAT POLITECNICA DE VALENCIA , CONSEJO SUPERIOR DE INVESTIGACIONES CIENTIFICAS (CSIC)
- Applicant Address: ES Valencia
- Assignee: UNIVERSITAT POLITECNICA DE VALENCIA,CONSEJO SUPERIOR DE INVESTIGACIONES CIENTIFICAS (CSIC)
- Current Assignee: UNIVERSITAT POLITECNICA DE VALENCIA,CONSEJO SUPERIOR DE INVESTIGACIONES CIENTIFICAS (CSIC)
- Current Assignee Address: ES Valencia; ES Madrid
- Agency: Hayes Soloway P.C.
- Priority: ES 2020030038 2020.01.20
- International Application: PCT/ES2021/070031 2021.01.20
- International Announcement: WO2021/148694A 2021.07.29
- Date entered country: 2022-07-19
- Main IPC: G01T1/20
- IPC: G01T1/20 ; G01T1/202

Abstract:
A device for the detection of gamma rays presents a high resolution in the three-dimensional position of the impact of the gamma ray within one or more scintillation crystal blocks coupled to an array of photosensors, for the determination of the impact energy of said gamma ray, the determination of the instant in time when said impact occurred, the interaction depth and the determination of the time-of-flight. Advantageously, in said device, the scintillation crystal detection blocks are optically isolated, in such a way that the scintillation light can only exit said blocks via the output region; and the scintillation crystal detection blocks and the array of photosensors are disposed in direct optical coupling.
Public/Granted literature
- US20230055050A1 DEVICE FOR THE DETECTION OF GAMMA RAYS WITH INTERACTION DEPTH AND TIME-OF-FLIGHT ENCODING Public/Granted day:2023-02-23
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