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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 02, 2001
Filed:
Feb. 07, 2000
Steven Jude Duclos, Clifton Park, NY (US);
Jacob Charles Bortscheller, Clifton Park, NY (US);
George William Taylor, Oak Creek, WI (US);
Christopher Jay Morse, Mukwonago, WI (US);
General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);
Abstract
A scintillator pack including an x-ray damage shield. The scintillator pack has an array of scintillator pixels. A scintillation light reflecting layer that reflects scintillation light from the pixels is included at least between the scintillator pixels in inter-scintillator regions. An x-ray absorbing layer acts as the x-ray damage shield to protect the portions of the scintillation light reflecting layer from x-rays. The x-ray absorbing layer is formed selectively and in a self aligned manner in regions over the inter-scintillator regions.