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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 29, 2015
Filed:
Apr. 17, 2012
Haochuan Jiang, Brookfield, WI (US);
Anant Achyut Setlur, Niskayuna, NY (US);
Robert Joseph Lyons, Burnt Hills, NY (US);
Kevin Alan David, Waterford, WI (US);
James Edward Murphy, Niskayuna, NY (US);
Haochuan Jiang, Brookfield, WI (US);
Anant Achyut Setlur, Niskayuna, NY (US);
Robert Joseph Lyons, Burnt Hills, NY (US);
Kevin Alan David, Waterford, WI (US);
James Edward Murphy, Niskayuna, NY (US);
General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);
Abstract
A detector for detecting high-energy radiation is disclosed. The detector includes scintillating material with a garnet structure includes gadolinium, yttrium, cerium, gallium, and aluminum. The scintillating material is expressed as (GdYACe)(GaAlD)O:wFO, wherein A is lutetium, lanthanum, terbium, dysprosium, or a combination thereof; D is indium, scandium, or a combination thereof; F is a divalent ion; 0≦x<0.2, 0<y<0.5, 0.001<z<0.05, 0<u<0.1, 0≦n<0.2, 0.3<m<0.6, and 10 ppm≦w≦300 ppm; and y/x>1.