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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 16, 2017
Filed:
Nov. 25, 2015
Siemens Medical Solutions Usa, Inc., Malvern, PA (US);
Peter Carl Cohen, Knoxville, TN (US);
Robert A. Mintzer, Knoxville, TN (US);
Mark S. Andreaco, Knoxville, TN (US);
Matthias J. Schmand, Lenoir City, TN (US);
Christof Thalhammer, Munich, DE;
Harry Hedler, Germering, DE;
Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc., Malvern, PA (US);
Abstract
Disclosed herein is a method including disposing in a mold a powder that has a composition for manufacturing a scintillator material and compressing the powder to form the scintillator material; where an exit surface of the scintillator material has a texture that comprises a plurality of projections that reduce total internal reflection at the exit surface and that increase the amount of photons exiting the exit surface by an amount of greater than or equal to 5% over a surface that does not have the projections.