Raytheon Company

The Machlett Laboratories, Incorporated

Donald F DeCou

James R Caraher

Terence Roach

William M Rappoport

William C Deits

A radiation detector, particularly suitable for use in computerized tomographic scanning systems, comprising a scintillator crystal having one window surface optically connected with a photodetector, preferably a semiconductor device, and having other surfaces diffused and tapered whereby the window surface is enabled to see all other surfaces so as to provide efficient passage of light photons from the crystal through the polished surface to the photodetector.

Scintillator crystal radiation detector

An image intensifier tube comprising a sealed envelope having therein means for controllably liberating oxygen within the envelope, and an input screen including an oxygen conditioned layer of fluorescent material and an overlying layer of photoemissive material which may be oxidized to improve the photon-to-electron conversion efficiency of the input screen. A method of improving the conversion efficiency of an image intensifier tube input screen including the steps of exposing a layer of fluorescent material to oxygen prior to the deposition of an overlying layer of photoemissive material, and subsequently exposing the layer of photoemissive material to oxygen, if desired, after the tube envelope has been sealed.

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Donald F DeCou