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US 7,704,651 B2Granted
Radiographic image conversion panel and production method thereof
AssigneeKonica Minolta Medical & Graphic, Inc.
InventorsHideki Shibuya, Kuniaki Nakano, Shigetami Kasai
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Abstract
A radiographic image conversion panel containing a substrate having thereon a phosphor layer formed by a vapor-accumulating method, wherein the phosphor layer has a thickness distribution of not more than ±20%, the thickness distribution being defined by the formula: ((Dmax−Dmin)/(Dmax+Dmin))×100, provided that Dmax is a maximum thickness of the phosphor layer; and Dmin is a minimum thickness of the phosphor layer.
Claims2
A radiographic image conversion panel comprising a substrate having thereon a phosphor layer formed by a vapor-accumulating method,
- wherein the phosphor in the phosphor layer is represented by Formula (I):
- M1X·aM2X′2bM3X″3:eA Formula (I)
- wherein, M1 represents an alkali metal atom selected from the group consisting of Li, Na, K, Rb and Cs:
- M2 represents a divalent metal atom selected from the group consisting of Be, Mg, Ca, Sr, Ba, Zn, Cd, Cu and Ni;
- M3 represents a trivalent metal atom selected from the group consisting of Sc, Y, La, Ce, Pr, Nd, Pm, Eu, Gd, Tb, Dy, Ho, Er, Tm, Yb, Lu, Al, Ga and In, X, X′ and X″ each represent independently a halogen atom selected from the group consisting of F, Cl, Br and I;
- A represents a metal atom selected from the group consisting of Eu, Tb, In, Ce, Tm, Dy, Pr, Ho, Nd, Yb, Er, Gd, Lu, Sm, Y, Tl, Na, Ag, Cu and Mg;
- and a, b and e each represents a number in a range of 0≦a<0.5, 0≦b<0.5 and 0<e<1.0, respectively;
- and
- the phosphor layer has a thickness distribution of not more than ±5%, the thickness distribution being defined by the following formula:
- ((Dmax−Dmin)/(Dmax+Dmin))×100,
- provided that Dmax is a maximum thickness of the phosphor layer;
- and Dmin is a minimum thickness of the phosphor layer;
- and
- wherein the thickness distribution of the phosphor layer is isotropic from a center of the radiographic image conversion panel, and the phosphor layer has a thickness variation coefficient of not more than 10%, the thickness variation coefficient being defined by the following formula:
- (Ddev/Dav)×100,
- provided that Dav is an average thickness of the phosphor layer;
- and Ddev is a standard deviation of thickness of the phosphor layer.
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