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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 05, 2006
Filed:
Sep. 21, 2004
D. Wayne Cooke, Santa Fe, NM (US);
Bryan L. Bennett, Los Alamos, NM (US);
Ross E. Muenchausen, Los Alamos, NM (US);
Debra A. Wrobleski, Los Alamos, NM (US);
Edward B. Orler, Los Alamos, NM (US);
D. Wayne Cooke, Santa Fe, NM (US);
Bryan L. Bennett, Los Alamos, NM (US);
Ross E. Muenchausen, Los Alamos, NM (US);
Debra A. Wrobleski, Los Alamos, NM (US);
Edward B. Orler, Los Alamos, NM (US);
Los Alamos National Security, LLC, Los Alamos, NM (US);
Abstract
A flexible composite scintillator was prepared by mixing fast, bright, dense rare-earth doped powdered oxyorthosilicate (such as LSO:Ce, LSO:Sm, and GSO:Ce) scintillator with a polymer binder. The binder is transparent to the scintillator emission. The composite is seamless and can be made large and in a wide variety of shapes. Importantly, the composite can be tailored to emit light in a spectral region that matches the optimum response of photomultipliers (about 400 nanometers) or photodiodes (about 600 nanometers), which maximizes the overall detector efficiency.