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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 22, 2018
Filed:
Sep. 09, 2015
Yasu Medical Imaging Technology Co., Ltd., Yasu-shi, JP;
Fumiaki Kunimoto, Shiga, JP;
YASU MEDICAL IMAGING TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., Yasu-shi, JP;
Abstract
A thermal neutron detecting device comprises a scintillator unit including a scintillator layer and a nuclear capture reaction layer, and an optical sensor array unit. The scintillator layer emits light upon receiving incident gamma ray or charged particles. The nuclear capture reaction layer is laminated on a side of the scintillator layer on which the gamma ray or the charged particles are incident, and includes first cell regions and second cell regions two-dimensionally, dispersedly arranged along an incidence plane of the gamma ray or the charged particles. The first cell regions contain aLi compound as a nuclear capture reaction material yielding nuclear capture reaction with incident thermal neutrons to generate the charged particles. The second cell regions contain no nuclear capture reaction material. The optical sensor array unit is capable of detecting a quantity of the emitted light in association with each of the first and second cell regions.