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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 19, 2019
Filed:
Aug. 28, 2017
General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);
Ansas Matthias Kasten, Niskayuna, NY (US);
John Scott Price, Niskayuna, NY (US);
Juan Pablo Cilia, Delmar, NY (US);
Chengbao Wang, Oklahoma City, OK (US);
William Robert Ross, Rotterdam, NY (US);
Brian David Yanoff, Niskayuna, NY (US);
Stanislav Ivanovich Soloviev, Ballston Lake, NY (US);
Sudeep Mandal, Durham, NC (US);
General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);
Abstract
A detector assembly includes scintillators configured to generate a light signal in response to an impinging backscatter signal, where the scintillators are arranged in a first pattern, a plurality of first detectors, where each first detector is coupled to a scintillator and configured to receive a first portion of a light signal from that scintillator, and where the first detectors are arranged in a second pattern aligned with the first pattern, a plurality of second detectors, where each second detector is disposed adjacent a scintillator and configured to receive a second portion of the light signal from that scintillator, and where the plurality of second detectors is arranged in a third pattern, and a scintillator collimator including a plurality of openings and configured to selectively receive the backscatter signal, where the detector assembly is configured to provide depth resolution, azimuthal resolution, a defect type, a defect size, or combinations thereof.