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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 17, 2015
Filed:
Apr. 25, 2011
Ct detector including multi-layer fluorescent tape scintillator with switchable spectral sensitivity
Simha Levene, D. N. Hanegev, IL;
Naor Wainer, Zichron Yaakov, IL;
Amiaz Altman, Tel Aviv, IL;
Rafael Goshen, Haifa, IL;
Cornelis Reinder Ronda, Aachen, DE;
Simha Levene, D. N. Hanegev, IL;
Naor Wainer, Zichron Yaakov, IL;
Amiaz Altman, Tel Aviv, IL;
Rafael Goshen, Haifa, IL;
Cornelis Reinder Ronda, Aachen, DE;
Koninklijke Philips N.V., Eindhoven, NL;
Abstract
A scintillator element () comprising uncured scintillator material () is formed and optically cured to generate a cured scintillator element (). The uncured scintillator material suitably combines at least a scintillator material powder and an uncured polymeric host. In a reel to reel process, a flexible array of optical detectors is transferred from a source reel () to a take-up reel () and the uncured scintillator material () is disposed on the flexible array and optically cured during said transfer. Such detector layers () are stackable to define a multi-layer computed tomography (CT) detector array (). Detector element channels () include a preamplifier () and switching circuitry () having a first mode connecting the preamplifier with at least first detector array layers () and a second mode connecting the preamplifier with at least second detector array layers ().