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- Patent Title: Radiation detector for combined detection of low-energy radiation quanta and high-energy radiation quanta
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Application No.: US15763489Application Date: 2016-10-14
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Publication No.: US10371830B2Publication Date: 2019-08-06
- Inventor: Johannes Wilhelmus Maria Jacobs , Jorrit Jorritsma , Heidrun Steinhauser , Onno Jan Wimmers , Peter Lex Alving , Herman Stegehuis , Herfried Karl Wieczorek
- Applicant: KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V.
- Applicant Address: NL Eindhoven
- Assignee: KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V.
- Current Assignee: KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V.
- Current Assignee Address: NL Eindhoven
- Priority: EP15190722 20151021
- International Application: PCT/EP2016/074647 WO 20161014
- International Announcement: WO2017/067846 WO 20170427
- Main IPC: G01T1/00
- IPC: G01T1/00 ; G01T1/20 ; G01T1/161 ; G01T1/164 ; G01T1/202

Abstract:
A radiation detector for combined detection of low-energy radiation quanta and high-energy radiation quanta has a multi-layered structure. A rear scintillator layer (5) is configured to emit a burst of scintillation photons responsive to a high-energy radiation quantum being absorbed by the rear scintillator layer (5). A rear photosensor layer (6) attached to a back side of the rear scintillator layer (5) is configured to detect scintillation photons generated in the rear scintillator layer (5). A front scintillator layer (3) arranged in front of the rear scintillator layer (5) opposite the rear photosensor layer (6) is configured to emit a burst of scintillation photons responsive to a low-energy radiation quantumbeing absorbed by the front scintillator layer (3). A front photosensor layer (2) attached to a front side of the front scintillator layer (3) opposite the rear scintillator layer (5) is configured to detect scintillation photons generated in the front scintillator layer (3). The high-energy radiation quantum is a gamma ray and the low-energy radiation quantum is an X-ray.
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