Device for the detection of gamma rays with active partitions
AssigneesUniversitat Politècnica de València, Consejo Superior De Investigaciones Cientificas (Csic)
InventorsVictor Ilisie, Jose Maria Benlloch Baviera, Filomeno Sanchez Martinez
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Abstract
The invention relates to a device for the detection of gamma rays coming from a source without image truncation and without image overlapping, comprising, at least, two detection cells and each of said cells comprising a detection space adapted to receive the gamma rays that penetrate through an opening, wherein said detection space comprises one or more detection assemblies, with some of said assemblies being positioned such that they stand in the way of the gamma rays coming into the overlap volume thereof.
Claims15
A device for the detection of gamma rays coming from a source, comprising at least two contiguous detection cells, wherein each of said detection cells comprises:
- a collimation element comprising an opening through which the gamma rays coming from the source can penetrate, defining a cone of incidence;
- a detection space adapted to receive the gamma rays that penetrate through the opening, wherein said detection space comprises one or more gamma ray detection assemblies;
- and wherein the theoretical projections of the cones of incidence of the gamma rays in two adjacent cells have an overlap volume within the detection space;
- the device being characterized in that at least one of the detection assemblies is arranged such that it stands in the way of the gamma rays coming into the overlap volume.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.