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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 21, 2015
Filed:
Apr. 26, 2012
Herfried Karl Wieczorek, Aachen, DE;
Andreas Thon, Aachen, DE;
Steven Cooke, Garfield Heights, OH (US);
Herfried Karl Wieczorek, Aachen, DE;
Andreas Thon, Aachen, DE;
Steven Cooke, Garfield Heights, OH (US);
Koninklijke Philips N.V., Eindhoven, NL;
Abstract
When employing specular reflective material in a scintillator crystal array, light trapping in the crystal due to repetitive internal reflection is mitigated by roughening at least one side () of each of a plurality of pre-formed polished scintillator crystals. A specular reflector material () is applied (deposited, wrapped around, etc.) to the roughened crystals, which are arranged in an array. Each crystal array is coupled to a silicon photodetector () to form a detector array, which can be mounted in a detector for a functional scanner or the like.