Canon Kabushiki Kaisha

Yoshito Sasaki

Satoshi Okada

Yohei Ishida

Keiichi Nomura

Kazumi Nagano

Tomoaki Ichimura

Akiya Nakayama

Shoshiro Saruta

Takamasa Ishii

Satoru Sawada

Yoshihiro Ogawa

Shinichi Takeda

Masato Inoue

Kota Nishibe

Tomohiro Hoshina

Masayoshi Tokumoto

An imaging table includes: a bucky apparatus to which a radiation imaging apparatus capable of being installed; a top plate connected to the bucky apparatus and allowing a subject to get on the top plate; and a rotation mechanism arranged to connect the bucky apparatus and the top plate in a relatively rotatable manner. The imaging table of the present invention can easily correspond to a plurality of imaging techniques.

Imaging table and radiation imaging system

Provided is a radiographic imaging apparatus that is high in sharpness of a picked up image and excellent in DQE by improving the amount of light that enters a photoelectric conversion element, despite a scintillator layer being formed thick. The radiographic imaging apparatus includes: the photoelectric conversion element; and a wavelength converting layer which has a bottom surface located above the photoelectric conversion element and a top surface for receiving an incident radiation ray, and which contains a scintillator layer. The wavelength converting layer has light transmitting properties in at least a region positioned to be above the photoelectric conversion element, and contains the scintillator layer at a density that is lower on the bottom surface side than on the top surface side in the thickness direction of the region.

Radiographic imaging apparatus and imaging system

A radiation detection apparatus comprising a sensor panel in which a plurality of sensors for detecting light are arranged, and a scintillator layer containing scintillator particles for converting an incident radiation into light, and an adhesive resin which has an adherence property and bonds the scintillator particles, wherein the scintillator layer is adhered to the sensor panel by the adhesive resin, a modulus of elasticity in tensile of the adhesive resin is higher than 0.7 GPa and lower than 3.5 GPa, and a volume ratio of the adhesive resin to the scintillator particles is not lower than 1% and not higher than 5%.

Radiation detection apparatus and imaging system

A method of manufacturing a radiation detection apparatus is provided. On a sensor substrate on which a pixel array is formed, a scintillator layer that covers the pixel array, a sealing layer that covers a side face of the scintillator layer, and a protection layer that covers an upper face of the scintillator layer and an upper face of the sealing layer are formed. The sensor substrate, the sealing layer, and the protection layer along a side of the pixel array are cut such that a cut surface of the sensor substrate, a cut surface of the sealing layer, and a cut surface of the protection layer are arranged on the same plane.

Radiation detection apparatus and method of manufacturing the same

A radiation detection apparatus including a sensor unit having photoelectric conversion units two-dimensionally arranged and a scintillator layer which converts radiation into light, comprising a first member disposed on the sensor unit, and a second member disposed on the first member, wherein the scintillator layer is disposed on the second member, and letting nbe a refractive index of the first member, nbe a refractive index of the second member, and nbe a refractive index of the scintillator layer, a relationship of n&#x3c;n&#x3c;nholds.

Radiation detection apparatus and radiographic system

The present invention provides a radiation detection apparatus including a first substrate member, a second substrate member, and a sealing portion configured to bond an edge portion of the first substrate member to an edge portion of the substrate member, one of the first substrate member and the second substrate member being a sensor panel including photoelectric conversion elements and the other being a scintillator panel including a scintillator layer, and the sealing portion including a first sealing resin having a first elastic modulus, a second sealing resin having a second elastic modulus lower than the first elastic modulus, a stress reduction portion configured to reduce a stress that acts on the first sealing resin and the second sealing resin and having a third elastic modulus lower than the second elastic modulus.

Radiation detection apparatus and radiation detection system

A radiation detection apparatus comprising a sensor panel and a scintillator panel is provided. The scintillator panel including a substrate, a scintillator disposed on the substrate, and a scintillator protective film that has a first organic protective layer and an inorganic protective layer, and covers the scintillator. The scintillator protective film is located between the sensor panel and the scintillator. The first organic protective layer is located on a scintillator side from the inorganic protective layer. A surface on a sensor panel side of the scintillator is partially in contact with the inorganic protective layer.

Radiation detection apparatus, scintillator panel, method for manufacturing same and radiation detection system

A method of manufacturing a scintillator panel including a scintillator layer which converts a radiation into light, includes a growing step of growing a scintillator including a plurality of columnar crystals on a first substrate; a fixing step of fixing a second substrate to a surface of the scintillator that is opposite to a surface on a side of the first substrate; a separation step of separating the first substrate from the scintillator; and a removal step of removing, from the scintillator, a portion of a predetermined thickness from an exposed surface of the scintillator that is exposed in the separation step, to form the scintillator layer.

Scintillator panel, radiation detection apparatus, and method of manufacturing them

A radiation detection apparatus comprising: a sensor panel including a photoelectric conversion region and an electrically conductive pattern that is electrically connected to the photoelectric conversion region; a scintillator layer disposed over the photoelectric conversion region of the sensor panel; a wiring member including a portion overlapping with the electrically conductive pattern and electrically connected to the electrically conductive pattern and; and a protective film covering the scintillator layer and the portion of the wiring member that overlaps with the electrically conductive pattern is provided. A region of the protective film that covers the wiring member includes a portion that is press-bonded to the sensor panel.

Radiation detection apparatus, manufacturing method therefor, and radiation imaging system

A method for manufacturing a radiation detection apparatus is provided. The method comprising: forming a set of columnar crystals capable of converting radiation into visible light on a base; forming a supporting layer that supports the set of columnar crystals; separating the set of columnar crystals supported by the supporting layer from the base; preparing a sensor panel having a photoelectric conversion unit; and adhering a surface of the set of columnar crystals, that surface having been in contact with the base, to the sensor panel using an adhesive material, such that the set of columnar crystals covers the photoelectric conversion unit.

Radiation detection apparatus and method for manufacturing the same

A radiation detection apparatus including: a sensor panel having a first face on which a pixel region is formed and a second face that is opposite the first face and including a connecting portion at one or more sides; a scintillator layer formed over the pixel region; and a protective film covering the scintillator layer and a portion of the sensor panel is provided. The protective film has a hot-pressed part. At the side of the sensor panel where the connecting portion is formed, the hot-pressed part is formed in a portion of the protective film covering the first face. At other sides of the sensor panel, the hot-pressed part is formed in at least one of a portion of the protective film covering a lateral face of the sensor panel and the second face.

Radiation detection apparatus and radiation imaging system

A method of manufacturing a radiation detection apparatus is provided. The apparatus comprises a first scintillator layer, a second scintillator layer, and a sensor panel that detects light emitted by the first scintillator layer and the second scintillator layer. The method comprises preparing a sensor unit having the sensor panel and the first scintillator layer which includes a set of columnar crystals formed on the sensor panel, and a scintillator panel having a scintillator substrate and the second scintillator layer which includes a set of columnar crystals formed on the scintillator substrate, and fixing the scintillator panel to the sensor panel such that the first scintillator layer and the second scintillator layer face each other.

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Honjo, Japan

Yoshito Sasaki