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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 15, 2016
Filed:
Feb. 04, 2013
American Science and Engineering, Inc., Billerica, MA (US);
Anatoli Arodzero, Billerica, MA (US);
Joseph Callerame, Lexington, MA (US);
Dan-Cristian Dinca, Chelmsford, MA (US);
Rajen Sud, Burlington, MA (US);
Lee Grodzins, Lexington, MA (US);
Martin Rommel, Lexington, MA (US);
Peter Rothschild, Newton, MA (US);
Jeffrey Schubert, Somerville, MA (US);
American Science and Engineering, Inc., Billerica, MA (US);
Abstract
A detector and methods for inspecting material on the basis of scintillator coupled by wavelength-shifting optical fiber to one or more photo-detectors, with a temporal integration of the photo-detector signal. An unpixelated volume of scintillation medium converts energy of incident penetrating radiation into scintillation light which is extracted from a scintillation light extraction region by a plurality of optical waveguides. This geometry provides for efficient and compact detectors, enabling hitherto unattainable geometries for backscatter detection and for energy discrimination of incident radiation. Additional energy-resolving transmission configurations are enabled as are skew- and misalignment compensation.