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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 24, 2002
Filed:
Dec. 15, 2000
Haochuan Jiang, Brookfield, WI (US);
General Electric Company, Milwaukee, WI (US);
Abstract
A system and method of computer tomography imaging using a cerium-doped lutetium orthosilicate scintillator are provided. The system includes a high frequency electromagnetic energy projection source to project high frequency energy toward an object, such as a patient. A scintillator array having a plurality of cerium-doped lutetium orthosilicate scintillators therein receives the high frequency energy attenuated by the object and emits light energy based on the attenuated energy received. A photodiode array including a plurality of photodiodes is optically-coupled to the scintillator array and configured to detect the light energy and discharge output to a data processing system to produce a visual display. Each scintillator of the scintillator array is formed into a transparent glass ceramic having a high crystalline phase by combing glass-forming compounds in a glass forming system. A method of combining glass-forming compounds to form the cerium-doped lutetium orthosilicate into a transparent glass ceramic is also provided.