Abstract:
The present invention relates a detector (11) for detecting megavoltage X-ray radiation (3), comprising a scintillator (2) including a plurality of heavy scintillating fibers (13) for emitting scintillation photons in response to incident megavoltage X-ray radiation (3), a support structure (15) for supporting said plurality of heavy scintillating fibers (13) and holding them in place; and a photodetector (17) for detecting the spatial intensity distribution of the emitted scintillation photons. The present invention further relates to an apparatus (35) for radiation therapy comprising a particle accelerator (37) and a detector (11) for detecting megavoltage radiation. Still further, the present invention relates to methods for detecting X-ray radiation and for radiation therapy.
Abstract:
A nuclear level sensing gauge for measuring the level of product in a bin utilizes a plurality of scintillators (14/16) arranged in a serial fashion. A source of nuclear radiation (S) is positioned adjacent the bin, and the scintillators, which may be bundles of one or more scintillating fibers or scintillating crystals, are positioned in a serial fashion adjacent the bin opposite the source of nuclear radiation, such that nuclear radiation passing through the bin impinges upon the bundles. Light guides (18) carry photons emitted by the scintillators -- which are indicative of radiation passing through the bin -- to a common photomultiplier tube (12). The tube is connected to electronics (10) which convert counts of photons from the PMT into a measure of the level of radiation-absorbing product in the bin.
Abstract:
An X-ray image sensor, comprising an X-ray converter layer for converting X-rays into signals received by a semiconductor detector for sampling and detecting converted X-rays as electrical signals, and a connection substrate comprising electrical connections, the X-ray converter layer bonded to a first surface of the semiconductor detector and the connection substrate arranged at a second surface of the semiconductor detector, opposite the X-ray converter layer, wherein the semiconductor detector in at least one edge portion comprises vias for through-contacting detector elements formed in or on the first surface of the semiconductor detector to the connection substrate.
Abstract:
A method, system and apparatus for obtaining a parameter of interest relating to a wellbore is disclosed. A fiber optic cable having a plurality of sensors is disposed in the wellbore, wherein the plurality of sensors have reflectivity values configured to provide improved signal-to-noise ratio compared to signal-to-noise ratio of a plurality of sensors having substantially same reflectivity values. Light is propagated into the fiber optic cable from a light source and signals are received at a detector from the plurality of sensors in response to interaction of the propagated light with the plurality of sensors. A processor may be used to obtain the parameter of interest from the received signals. The fiber optic cable may be coupled to a member in the wellbore, wherein the parameter of interest is related to the member.
Abstract:
A gamma vector camera is described for detecting and determining the energy spectrum of a gamma ray source and the direction to the gamma ray source. The gamma vector camera includes a detection system that records a track of a recoil electron produced by a Compton-scattering of an incident gamma ray emitted by the gamma ray source. A processor is configured to determine the energy and the direction of the recoil electron based on the track of the recoil electron recorded by the detection system, and to determine the energy spectrum of the gamma ray source and the direction to the gamma ray source based on the determined energies and directions of a plurality of recoil electrons produced by the Compton-scatterings of a respective plurality of incident gamma rays.
Abstract:
The invention relates to detection of radiations by means of any appropriate devices, particularly those comprising small probes used e.g. in diagnostics or in surgery., or in biomedical or pharmacological research. The aim of the invention is to improve the performance of probes and their working methods in terms i.a of background, miniaturization sensitivity and selectivity. In this respect, the invention concerns a Method of detecting, locating and/or analyzing a radioactive source(s) emitting charged or neutral particles in a material, particularly a biological tissue, consisting essentially in using scintillating fiber(s) having a ratio L (Length) / r (range of the particles emitted by the source) ≥ 2, d (diameter) / r ≤ 5, and L / d ≥ 2; scanning the surface of the material with the detection rod; collecting by means of a SiPM, the scintillation light output (SL ο ) generated by the particles having entered and interacted with the scintillating fiber(s) and emitted at the outlet end; optionally selecting signals SL ο corresponding essentially to the particles entering the scintillating fiber(s) in a substantially axial direction (directional sensitivity), that is to say eliminating the particles which angle α p , that is the angle between the axis of the scintillating fiber and the direction of the particles entering the scintillating fiber, is greater than αt (α p > α t ), then which length lp is lower than l t (1 t ), correlating SL ο, and optionally the selected signals, to the presence of a source of radiation located in the mass of the material to be analyzed; and optionally communicating these data to the user. Applications: onco-diagnostics, pre- or intra-operative (onco) surgery, neurosurgery, cardiosurgery and diagnostics, bio-medical and pharmaceutical research.
Abstract:
An efficient, large-area-detector and readout-system for combined sub-mm spatial imaging and time-of-flight spectrometry of fast and slow neutrons, as well as gamma-rays, capable of loss-free operation in mixed neutron-gamma fields of very high intensity.
Abstract:
Device for position determined detection of radioactive radiation, comprising at least one pair of layers (1, 2), one of the layers in the pair here being called the primary layer (1) and the other the secondary layer (2), the layers comprising scintillating elements (3, 4) of some length called primary elements (3) in the primary layer (1) and secondary elements (4) in the secondary layer (2), the two layers (1, 2) being positioned on each other that the direction of the primary elements (3) in the primary layer (1) cross the direction of the secondary elements (4) in the secondary layer (2), the elements (3, 4) being connected to light sensitive means (21, 23, 25, 27, 39), which are arranged to react on light pulses that are generated in the scintillating elements (3, 4) by the radioactive radiation, and the light sensitive means are connected to a logic circuit system (38) for determining of where light pulses have been generated I the detection device. According to the invention a heavy material is arranged in or in the vicinity of the scintillating elements (3, 4), and/or the scintillating elements (3, 4) in the layers (1, 2) are connected to the light sensitive means (21, 23, 25, 27, 39) according to a multiplexing schedule, which will decrease the number of necessary light sensitive means (21, 23, 25, 27, 39).
Abstract:
L'invention concerne un procédé de mesure de dose d'irradiation par un faisceau d'un rayonnement à haute énergie, dans lequel on dispose sous ce faisceau, un scintillateur (1) pour émettre une lumière de scintillation dont l'intensité est fonction de la dose de ce faisceau irradiant ce scintillateur (1), on couple le scintillateur (1) à un dispositif de mesure (8) de la lumière émise par le scintillateur (1), via une fibre optique (2), et on mesure la quantité de lumière transmise par la fibre optique (2), on détermine l'intensité de la lumière émise par le scintillateur (1), à partir de l'intensité de la lumière émise par au moins une autre source, après transmission par la même fibre optique (2), de la lumière émise par le scintillateur (1) et de la lumière par chèque autre source. L'invention concerne également un dispositif de mesure de dose d'irradiation pour la mise en oeuvre de ce procédé.
Abstract:
A method and apparatus for creating density images of an object (2) through the 3-dimensional tracking of protons that have passed through the object. More specifically, the 3-dimensional tracking of the protons is accomplished by gathering and analyzing image of the ionization tracks of the protons in a closely packed stack of scintillating fibers (12).