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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 03, 2015
Filed:
Dec. 24, 2009
Brian C. Lacourse, Pepperell, MA (US);
Anne B. Hardy, Paris, FR;
Hélène Laetitia Rétot, Avignon, FR;
Qiwei Chen, Shanghai, CN;
Xiaofeng Peng, Shanghai, CN;
Bruno Viana, Montgeron, FR;
Morteza Zandi, Webster, MA (US);
Brian C. LaCourse, Pepperell, MA (US);
Anne B. Hardy, Paris, FR;
Hélène Laetitia Rétot, Avignon, FR;
Qiwei Chen, Shanghai, CN;
Xiaofeng Peng, Shanghai, CN;
Bruno Viana, Montgeron, FR;
Morteza Zandi, Webster, MA (US);
SAINT-GOBAIN CERAMICS & PLASTICS, INC., Worcester, MA (US);
Abstract
A ceramic scintillator body includes a polycrystalline ceramic scintillating material having a substantially cubic crystallographic structure. The polycrystalline ceramic scintillating material has a chemical composition represented by a general formula LUGdO:Ac, where x is greater than zero and less than two, and where Ac is an activator.