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US 12,092,774 B2Granted
Method for fabricating pixelated scintillators
AssigneesVarian Medical Systems, Inc., Collimated Holes, Inc.
InventorsDaniel Shedlock, Josh Star-Lack, Richard Mead
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Abstract
In a method of making pixelated scintillators, an amorphous scintillator material in a molten state is pressed into a plurality of cavities defined by a plurality of walls of a mesh array. The molten scintillator material in the plurality of cavities is cooled to form a pixelated scintillator array. An x-ray imager including a pixelated scintillator is also described.
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A pixelated scintillator layer, comprising:
- a first pixelated scintillator array including a plurality of scintillator pixels arranged substantially in parallel in a first direction;
- and
- a second pixelated scintillator array including a plurality of scintillator pixels arranged substantially in parallel in a second direction, the second direction being different from the first direction;
- wherein
- a top surface of the second pixelated scintillator array is unparallel with a bottom surface of the second pixelated scintillator array,
- a side of the second pixelated scintillator array is parallel to a side of the first pixelated scintillator array, and
- the first pixelated scintillator array and the second pixelated scintillator array are arranged such that the first direction and the second direction focus substantially at a source.
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