Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Detection apparatus for detecting radiation
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Application No.: US14359337Application Date: 2012-11-23
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Publication No.: US09958554B2Publication Date: 2018-05-01
- Inventor: Cornelis Reinder Ronda , Roland Proksa , Axel Thran
- Applicant: KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V.
- Applicant Address: NL Eindhoven
- Assignee: KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V.
- Current Assignee: KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V.
- Current Assignee Address: NL Eindhoven
- International Application: PCT/IB2012/056684 WO 20121123
- International Announcement: WO2013/084106 WO 20130613
- Main IPC: G01T1/20
- IPC: G01T1/20 ; G01T1/202 ; G01N23/04

Abstract:
The invention relates to a detection apparatus for detecting radiation. The detection apparatus comprises a GOS material (20) for generating scintillation light depending on the detected radiation (25), an optical filter (24) for reducing the intensity of a part of the scintillation light having a wavelength being larger than 650 nm, and a detection unit (21) for detecting the filtered scintillation light. Because of the filtering procedure relatively slow components, i.e. components corresponding to a relatively large decay time, of the scintillation light weakly constribute to the detection process or are not detected at all by the detection unit, thereby increasing the temporal resolution of the detection apparatus. The resulting fast detection apparatus can be suitable for kVp-switching computed tomography systems.
Public/Granted literature
- US20140321617A1 DETECTION APPARATUS FOR DETECTING RADIATION Public/Granted day:2014-10-30
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