Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Depth-of-interaction scintillation detectors
- Patent Title (中): 深度相互作用闪烁探测器
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Application No.: US14195735Application Date: 2014-03-03
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Publication No.: US09442199B2Publication Date: 2016-09-13
- Inventor: Alexei Oleinik , Alexander Zagumennyi , Serge Khorev , Abdelmounaime Faouzi Zerrouk
- Applicant: Zecotek Imaging Systems Pte. Ltd.
- Agency: Davis Wright Tremaine LLP
- Agent Dylan O. Adams
- Main IPC: G01T1/20
- IPC: G01T1/20 ; G01T1/202

Abstract:
The invention disclosed herein relates to a scintillation detector for registering the position of gamma photon interactions, an comprises an array of two or more elongated first and second scintillation crystal elements connected together along their respective long sides, and an array of discrete photosensitive areas disposed on a common substrate of a solid-state semiconductor photo-detector. The array of first and second scintillation crystal elements have proximal output windows optically coupled to the array of discrete photosensitive areas in a one-to-one relationship. The invention may be characterized in that the first and second scintillation crystal elements include a rooftop portion at their distal ends, wherein the rooftop portion optically couples one of the first and second scintillation crystal elements to the other and is configured to reflect and transmit light resulting from a gamma photon interaction from one of the first and second scintillation crystal elements to the other.
Public/Granted literature
- US20140299777A1 DEPTH-OF-INTERACTION SCINTILLATION DETECTORS Public/Granted day:2014-10-09
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