Abstract:
A high resolution x-ray detector for medical computerized tomography systems is filled with a high pressure noble gas as a detecting medium. The detector comprises a housing having an x-ray permeable window and containing at least one electrically conductive voltage plate and at least one collector plate comprising a plurality of conductive elements. The gaseous detecting medium, such as xenon, occupies the space between the voltage and collector plates.
Abstract:
A helium ionization detector for gas chromatography is operated in a constant current, pulse-modulated mode by configuring the detector, electrometer and a high voltage pulser in a closed-loop control system. The detector current is maintained at a fixed level by varying the frequency of fixed-width, high-voltage bias pulses applied to the detector. An output signal proportional to the pulse frequency is produced which is indicative of the charge collected for a detected species.
Abstract:
An improved ion detector device of the ionization detection device chamberype comprises an ionization chamber having a central electrode therein surrounded by a cylindrical electrode member within the chamber with a collar frictionally fitted around at least one of the electrodes. The collar has electrical contact means carried in an annular groove in an inner bore of the collar to contact the outer surface of the electrode to provide electrical contact between an external terminal and the electrode without the need to solder leads to the electrode.
Abstract:
An integrated radiation detector comprises a number of electrode plates assembled at a mutual distance. The electrode plates comprise slots in which electrically insulating gas-tight strips projecting through all the electrode plates are provided, of which strips one serves as an input window and the remaining strips serve as walls of the detection spaces. For sealing, the strips are interconnected, for example, by means of electrically insulated glued joints. Since the detector need no longer be assembled in a gas-tight housing, connections for the electrodes can be realized in a simple manner. Parts of the electrodes projecting beyond the actual detection space on the side of the input window may serve a collimator for the incident radiation.
Abstract:
In devices having several electrical connections passing through a separation wall, feedthrough is realized by means of a flexible printed tape. The printed tape includes a number of electrical conductors, and is enveloped by a polyimide carrier which constitutes with an epoxy glue a very reliable permanent seal in separation walls of both metal and ceramic materials.
Abstract:
Metastable ionization detectors used for chromatographic analysis usually employ a fixed high voltage for the ionization potential. For this reason, the operating range is limited to about three orders of magnitude. By use of the technique disclosed in the instant invention, operating ranges of about nine orders of magnitude are obtained.The output current from a metastable ionization detector (MID) is applied to a modulation voltage circuit. An adjustment is made to balance out the background current, and an output current, above background, is applied to an input of a strip chart recorder. For low level concentrations, i.e., low detected output current, the ionization potential will be at a maximum and the metastable ionization detector will operate at its most sensitive level. When the detected current from the metastable ionization detector increases above a predetermined threshold level, a voltage control circuit is activated which turns on a high voltage transistor which acts to reduce the ionization potential. The ionization potential applied to the metastable ionization detector is then varied so as to maintain the detected signal level constant. The variation in ionization potential is now related to the concentration of the constituent and a representative amplitude is applied to another input of said strip chart recorder.
Abstract:
A method and apparatus for determining the distribution of a position-emitting radioisotope into an object, the apparatus consisting of a wire mesh radiation converter, an ionizable gas for propagating ionization events caused by electrodes released by the converter, a drift field, a spatial position detector and signal processing circuitry for correlating near-simultaneous ionization events and determining their time differences, whereby the position sources of back-to-back collinear radiation can be located and a distribution image constructed.
Abstract:
In an ionization chamber type X-ray detector used in a computerized X-ray tomography device, non-insulative material such as semiconductive or conductive material is provided on each of paired electrode supporting plates for supporting anode and cathode electrodes, whereby the electrification of the electrode supporting plate may be prevented so that a signal current can be exactly and stably detected.
Abstract:
A multicell x-ray radiation detector includes a chamber for confining a gas that produces electron-ion pairs incidental to absorbing radiation. The chamber is formed by a channel having a bottom and sidewalls, one of the side walls having a window for admitting radiation to the chamber. A multicell unitary electrode assembly is mounted within the chamber. An upper compressed elastic member is interposed between the electrode assembly and the chamber and, similarly, a rear compressed elastic member is interposed between the assembly and the sidewall opposite the window of the chamber. The compressed elastic members interposed between the electrode assembly and the chamber isolate the electrode assembly from any mechanical vibration and thermal distortion of the chamber while maintaining a precise position of the electrode assembly to the chamber window.
Abstract:
An ionization chamber has separate drift and detection regions electrically isolated from each other by a fine wire grid. A relatively weak electric field can be maintained in the drift region when the grid and another electrode in the chamber are connected to a high voltage source. A much stronger electric field can be provided in the detection region by connecting wire electrodes therein to another high voltage source. The detection region can thus be operated in a proportional mode when a suitable gas is contained in the chamber. High resolution output pulse waveforms are provided across a resistor connected to the detection region anode, after ionizing radiation enters the drift region and ionize the gas.