Consejo Superior De Investigaciones Cientificas

West Virginia University

Bruker Biospin Ag

Universitat Politécnica De Valência

General Equipment for Medical Imaging S.a.

Stan Majewski

José María Benlloch Baviera

JosE Maria Benlloch Baviera

Antonio Javier Gonzalez Martinez

This disclosure describes an imaging radiation detection module with novel configuration of the scintillator sensor allowing for simultaneous optimization of the two key parameters: detection efficiency and spatial resolution, that typically cannot be achieved. The disclosed device is also improving response uniformity across the whole detector module, and especially in the edge regions. This is achieved by constructing the scintillation modules as hybrid structures with continuous (also referred to as monolithic) scintillator plate(s) and pixelated scintillator array(s) that are optically coupled to each other and to the photodetector. There are two basic embodiments of the novel hybrid structure: (1) the monolithic scintillator plate is at the entrance for the incoming radiation, preferably gamma rays, and the pixelated array placed behind the plate, all in optical contact with the photodetector, (2) the order of the scintillator components is reversed with the pixelated scintillation plate placed in front of the monolithic plate.

Hybrid scintillation module

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Charlottesville, VA, United States of America

Stan Majewski