Radiation sensing thermoplastic composite panels
OwnerSeshadri Jagannathan, Charles M. Rankin +4inventors
InventorsSeshadri Jagannathan, Charles M. Rankin, Lawrence D. Folts, Barbara Ulreich, Betsy J. Guffey, Jean-Marc Inglese
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Abstract
A storage phosphor panel can include an extruded inorganic storage phosphor layer including a thermoplastic polymer and an inorganic storage phosphor material, where the extruded inorganic storage phosphor panel has an image quality comparable to that of a traditional solvent coated inorganic storage phosphor screen. Further disclosed are certain exemplary method and/or apparatus embodiments that can provide inorganic storage phosphor panels including a selected blue dye that can be recycled while maintaining sufficient image quality characteristics.
Claims5
A re-cycled inorganic storage phosphor panel comprising,
- an inorganic storage phosphor layer comprising at least one polymer, an inorganic storage phosphor material, and a copper phthalocyanine based blue dye;
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- a support attached to the inorganic storage phosphor layer.
A method for recycling an inorganic storage phosphor panel comprising:
- providing an inorganic storage phosphor panel comprising at least one polymer, an inorganic storage phosphor material, and a copper phthalocyanine based blue dye;
- mechanically grinding the inorganic storage phosphor panel into a powder or flakes;
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- melt extruding, injection molding or hot pressing the ground powder or flakes to form a recycled manufactured inorganic storage phosphor panel.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.