Depth resolved scintillation detector array imaging apparatus and method of use thereof

    公开(公告)号:US10548551B2

    公开(公告)日:2020-02-04

    申请号:US15243772

    申请日:2016-08-22

    IPC分类号: A61B6/00 A61N5/10 G01T1/20

    摘要: The invention comprises a method or apparatus for tomographically imaging a sample, such as a tumor of a patient, using positively charged particles. Position, energy, and/or vectors of the positively charged particles are determined using a plurality of scintillators, such as layers of chemically distinct scintillators where each chemically distinct scintillator emits photons of differing wavelengths upon energy transfer from the positively charged particles. Knowledge of position of a given scintillator type and a color of the emitted photon from the scintillator type allows a determination of residual energy of the charged particle energy in a scintillator detector. Optionally, a two-dimensional detector array additionally yields x/y-plane information, coupled with the z-axis energy information, about state of the positively charged particles. State of the positively charged particles as a function of relative sample/particle beam rotation is used in tomographic reconstruction of an image of the sample or the tumor.

    DEPTH RESOLVED SCINTILLATION DETECTOR ARRAY IMAGING APPARATUS AND METHOD OF USE THEREOF
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    发明申请
    DEPTH RESOLVED SCINTILLATION DETECTOR ARRAY IMAGING APPARATUS AND METHOD OF USE THEREOF 审中-公开
    深度分辨率扫描检测器阵列成像装置及其使用方法

    公开(公告)号:US20160354048A1

    公开(公告)日:2016-12-08

    申请号:US15243772

    申请日:2016-08-22

    摘要: The invention comprises a method or apparatus for tomographically imaging a sample, such as a tumor of a patient, using positively charged particles. Position, energy, and/or vectors of the positively charged particles are determined using a plurality of scintillators, such as layers of chemically distinct scintillators where each chemically distinct scintillator emits photons of differing wavelengths upon energy transfer from the positively charged particles. Knowledge of position of a given scintillator type and a color of the emitted photon from the scintillator type allows a determination of residual energy of the charged particle energy in a scintillator detector. Optionally, a two-dimensional detector array additionally yields x/y-plane information, coupled with the z-axis energy information, about state of the positively charged particles. State of the positively charged particles as a function of relative sample/particle beam rotation is used in tomographic reconstruction of an image of the sample or the tumor.

    摘要翻译: 本发明包括用于使用带正电荷的颗粒层析成像样品(例如患者的肿瘤)的方法或装置。 带正电荷的颗粒的位置,能量和/或载体使用多个闪烁体确定,例如化学上不同的闪烁体的层,其中每个化学不同的闪烁体在从带正电的颗粒转移能量时发射不同波长的光子。 了解闪烁体类型的给定闪烁体类型的位置和发射的光子的颜色允许确定闪烁体检测器中的带电粒子能量的剩余能量。 任选地,二维检测器阵列附加地产生与z轴能量信息耦合的x / y平面信息关于带正电荷的颗粒的状态。 在样品或肿瘤图像的断层重建中使用带正电荷的粒子作为相对样品/粒子束旋转的函数的状态。

    RARE EARTH OXIDE TO RARE EARTH EXTRACTION APPARATUS AND METHOD OF USE THEREOF

    公开(公告)号:US20210025027A1

    公开(公告)日:2021-01-28

    申请号:US16523974

    申请日:2019-07-26

    IPC分类号: C22B59/00 C22B5/12

    摘要: The invention comprises a method and apparatus for generating a rare earth from a rare earth oxide, comprising the sequential steps of: (1) reducing temperature about the rare earth oxide to less than zero degrees Celsius; (2) reducing pressure to boil off contaminant water in a powder sample of the rare earth oxide at a molecular escape velocity not disturbing the powdered rare earth oxide; and (3) heating the rare earth oxide to greater than 1000° C. in the presence hydrogen gas while optionally: (1) collecting and determining mass of a water product to determine a consumption mass of the starting hydrogen gas in a main reaction process using the equation RE2O3+3H2→2RE+3 H2O, wherein “RE” comprises at a rare earth and (2) injecting replacement hydrogen gas into the main reaction chamber up to the consumption mass.