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US 12,344,786 B2Granted
Thallium-based scintillator materials
AssigneeRadiation Monitoring Devices, Inc.
InventorsRastgo Hawrami, Lakshmi Soundara Pandian, Kanai S. Shah
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Abstract
Scintillator materials, as well as related systems, and methods of detection using the same, are described herein. The scintillator material composition may comprise a Tl-based scintillator material. For example, the composition may comprise a thallium-based halide. Such materials have been shown to have particularly attractive scintillation properties and may be used in a variety of applications for detection radiation.
Claims5
A method of radiation detection, comprising:
- providing a detection system including a scintillator material and a detector assembly coupled to the scintillator material and configured to detect a light pulse luminescence from the scintillator material as a measure of a scintillation event, wherein the scintillator material comprises a thallium-based halide composition, wherein the thallium-based halide composition has the general formula of Tl2LiYCl6;
- positioning the system such that a radiation source is within a field of view of the system so as to detect emissions from the source;
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- measuring a scintillation event luminescence signal from the scintillator with the detection assembly,
- wherein the source emits gamma-rays and neutrons and the method further comprises differentiating gamma-ray detection and neutron detection using pulse shape discrimination (PSD) analysis.
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