Koninklijke Philips Corporation N.V.

University of Washington

William Hunter

Lingxiong Shao

Thomas Leroy Laurence

Robert S Miyaoka

David Sowards-Emmerd

Adrienne Lehnert

A photon detector includes a sensor array of optical sensors disposed in a plane and four substantially identical scintillation crystal bars. Each optical sensor is configured to sense luminescence. Each of the four scintillator crystal bars being a rectangular prism with four side surfaces and first and second end surfaces, each scintillation bar has two side surfaces which each face a side surface of another scintillation bar, and each scintillation crystal bar generating a light scintillation in response to interacting with a received gamma photon. A first layer () is disposed in a first plane disposed between and adjacent facing side surfaces of the four substantially identical scintillation crystal bars with a light sharing portion () adjacent the first end surface and a reflective portion () adjacent the second end surface. A second layer () is disposed in a second plane orthogonal to the first plane and disposed between and adjacent facing side surfaces of the four substantially identical scintillation crystal bars with a light sharing portion () adjacent the second end surface and a reflective portion () adjacent the first end surface.

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William Hunter