Flexible cassette for holding storage phosphor screen
    1.
    发明授权
    Flexible cassette for holding storage phosphor screen 失效
    用于保存存储荧光屏的柔性盒

    公开(公告)号:US5712486A

    公开(公告)日:1998-01-27

    申请号:US633917

    申请日:1996-04-15

    IPC分类号: G03B42/04 B65D85/00

    CPC分类号: G03B42/04

    摘要: An opaque, generally flat flexible cassette is provided which receives and holds a storage phosphor screen while the screen is radiographed. The cassette has sufficient flexibility to be wrapped around an object to be radiographed. The cassette has a light-tight sealing device at or near its open end. The sealing device allows the cassette to be placed in either an open position for receiving or discharging the storage phosphor screen, or a closed position for holding the imaging storage medium therein during radiographing and transport. The cassette is designed so that the storage phosphor screen is discharged from the cassette without being physically handled by a person or being exposed to ambient light.

    摘要翻译: 提供了一种不透明的,大致平坦的柔性盒,其在屏幕被射线照相时接收和保持存储荧光屏。 该盒式磁带具有足够的灵活性,可被包裹在被射出的物体周围。 盒子在其开口端处或附近具有不透光的密封装置。 密封装置允许盒放置在用于接收或排出存储荧光屏的打开位置中,或者在放射照相和运送期间将盒保持在其中的关闭位置。 盒式磁带被设计成使得存储荧光屏从盒中排出而不被人物理处理或暴露于环境光。

    Method and apparatus for accelerated removal of energy and residual
images from phosphor screen employed in filmless radiography
    2.
    发明授权
    Method and apparatus for accelerated removal of energy and residual images from phosphor screen employed in filmless radiography 失效
    用于无电影放射照相术中从荧光屏加速去除能量和残留图像的方法和装置

    公开(公告)号:US6140663A

    公开(公告)日:2000-10-31

    申请号:US47552

    申请日:1998-03-25

    IPC分类号: G03B42/02 G03C5/17

    CPC分类号: G03B42/02 G03C5/17

    摘要: Methods and apparatus for rapidly removing stored energy from (i.e., erasing) a reusable photostimulable storage phosphor screen use a first source of electromagnetic radiation which primarily outputs a wavelength or wavelengths of about 577 nanometers to about 597 nanometers, and a second source of electromagnetic radiation which primarily outputs a wavelength or wavelengths in the infrared region. Exposure to the second source of radiation may occur either after, or simultaneously with, exposure to the first source of radiation. During exposure to the first source of electromagnetic energy, ultraviolet radiation is filtered out so that none reaches the phosphor screen, or a first source is selected which does not output substantially any ultraviolet radiation. The first source of electromagnetic radiation erases the phosphor screen to a homogenized quasi-erased state. The second source of electromagnetic radiation erases the phosphor screen from the homogenized quasi-erased state to a fully or nearly fully erased state. The first source of electromagnetic radiation may be a sodium vapor lamp which also functions to remove residual images. Residual images may also be removed by exposing the phosphor screen to a source of electromagnetic radiation which outputs a wavelength or wavelengths including at least one of infrared and near-infrared, and a reduced amount of charging wavelengths. The process may include filtering any visible light having a wavelength below red light emitted from the second source of radiation.

    摘要翻译: 用于从可再利用的可光激励存储荧光屏中快速去除(即擦除)存储的能量的方法和装置使用主要输出约577纳米至约597纳米的波长或波长的第一电磁辐射源,以及第二电磁辐射源 其主要输出红外区域中的波长或波长。 暴露于第二辐射源可能在暴露于第一辐射源之后或同时暴露于第一辐射源。 在暴露于第一电磁能量源期间,紫外线辐射被滤出,使得没有到达荧光屏,或选择不输出基本上任何紫外线辐射的第一源。 第一电磁辐射源将荧光屏消除为均匀的准擦除状态。 第二电磁辐射源将荧光屏从均匀化的准擦除状态消除到完全或接近完全擦除状态。 电磁辐射的第一来源可以是钠蒸汽灯,其还用于去除残留图像。 通过将荧光屏暴露于输出包括红外线和近红外线中的至少一种的波长或波长的电磁辐射源以及减少的充电波长的量也可以去除残留图像。 该过程可以包括过滤从第二辐射源发射的具有低于红光的波长的任何可见光。

    Phosphor screen
    3.
    发明授权
    Phosphor screen 失效
    荧光屏

    公开(公告)号:US06440587B1

    公开(公告)日:2002-08-27

    申请号:US09649090

    申请日:2000-08-28

    IPC分类号: G21K400

    摘要: A phosphor powder for producing a high resolution phosphor screen and a phosphor screen are provided. The phosphor screen comprises a substrate, an infrared-absorbing layer, and a phosphor layer coated on the infrared-absorbing layer, wherein the phosphor layer comprises a phosphor powder in which a substantial amount of particles in the powder have a particle size as measured in the longest dimension of greater than 0 and less than about 5 microns. The phosphor screen may also comprise a black, infrared-absorbing substrate with the phosphor layer coated on the substrate. The phosphor powder is formed by preparing a phosphor composition, sintering the composition to form ingots, grinding the ingots to form a powder wherein a substantial amount of particles in the powder have a particle size of greater than 0 and less than about 5 microns, reactivating the powder in an inert atmosphere to a temperature of from about 500° C. to about 550° C., preparing a suspension of the powder and a nonreactive organic solvent, mixing the suspension to separate particles of the powder which partially fuse during reactivation and to break up large agglomerates of the powder in the suspension, decanting the suspension to at least partially separate the nonreactive inorganic solvent and the powder, and drying the powder to form the phosphor powder.

    摘要翻译: 提供了用于制造高分辨率荧光屏和荧光屏的荧光体粉末。 荧光屏包括衬底,红外线吸收层和涂覆在红外线吸收层上的荧光体层,其中磷光体层包括荧光体粉末,其中大量的粉末中的颗粒具有如下测量的粒度: 最大尺寸大于0且小于约5微米。 荧光屏还可以包括黑色的红外线吸收衬底,荧光层涂覆在衬底上。 通过制备磷光体组合物来形成荧光体粉末,烧结组合物以形成晶锭,研磨锭以形成粉末,其中粉末中大量的颗粒具有大于0且小于约5微米的粒度,再活化 该粉末在惰性气氛中至约500℃至约550℃的温度,制备粉末和非反应性有机溶剂的悬浮液,将悬浮液混合分离出在再活化期间部分熔化的粉末颗粒;以及 以分散悬浮液中的粉末的大团块,将悬浮液倾析至少部分分离非反应性无机溶剂和粉末,并干燥粉末以形成荧光体粉末。

    Thin film inorganic scintillator and method of making same
    4.
    发明授权
    Thin film inorganic scintillator and method of making same 失效
    薄膜无机闪烁体及其制作方法

    公开(公告)号:US4940603A

    公开(公告)日:1990-07-10

    申请号:US213347

    申请日:1988-06-30

    申请人: Peter K. Soltani

    发明人: Peter K. Soltani

    摘要: An article, having particular use as a scintillator, includes a thin film of calcium sulfide on a substrate, such as alumina, quartz, sapphire, or most glasses. The material is first formed in bulk with cerium sulfide, cerium oxide, or cerium, and lithium fluoride. The material is applied by physical vapor deposition in a relatively thin film to the substrate, and then at least the luminescent material is subjected to a high temperature for a period of time to effect recrystallization and activation of the material, such that the material acquires luminescent characteristics.

    摘要翻译: 特别用作闪烁体的物品包括在诸如氧化铝,石英,蓝宝石或大多数玻璃之类的基底上的硫化钙薄膜。 材料首先主要与硫化铈,氧化铈或铈和氟化锂形成。 该材料通过物理气相沉积在相对薄的薄膜中施加到基底上,然后至少使发光材料经受高温一段时间以使材料重结晶和活化,使得该材料获得发光 特点

    Imaging system for mamography employing electron trapping materials
    5.
    发明授权
    Imaging system for mamography employing electron trapping materials 失效
    使用电子捕获材料的成像系统

    公开(公告)号:US5124558A

    公开(公告)日:1992-06-23

    申请号:US723603

    申请日:1991-07-01

    摘要: A high resolution photostimulable storage phosphor screen for breast imaging using X-rays. The phosphor material for storing the image, SrS;Ce,Sm, is appropriately milled to a fine powder and dispersed, using appropriate methods, with high particle packing density, on a supporting substrate. The coated substrate froms a planar imaging screen for mammography. The phosphor screen of the present invention can record high quality digital (as opposed to analog) images for diagnostic breast imaging.

    摘要翻译: 一种用于使用X射线进行乳腺成像的高分辨率可感光储存荧光屏。 将用于存储图像SrS; Ce,Sm的荧光体材料适当地研磨成细粉末,并且在适当的方法上以高的颗粒堆积密度在支撑衬底上分散。 来自用于乳房X线照相术的平面成像屏幕的涂覆的基底。 本发明的荧光屏可以记录用于诊断乳腺成像的高质量数字(与模拟)相反的图像。

    Fiber optic dosimeter using electron trapping materials employing
technique for eliminating background fluorescence
    6.
    发明授权
    Fiber optic dosimeter using electron trapping materials employing technique for eliminating background fluorescence 失效
    使用电子捕获材料的光纤剂量计采用消除背景荧光的技术

    公开(公告)号:US5091653A

    公开(公告)日:1992-02-25

    申请号:US292350

    申请日:1988-12-30

    IPC分类号: C09K11/77 G21K4/00

    摘要: A fiber optic dosimeter in which an electron trapping material is held in a probe on the tip of an optical fiber. The probe is placed in a region with the radiation to be measured, and the opposite end of the optical fiber, from which radiation readings are measured, is placed in a location remote from the radiation source. When radiation impinges upon the electron trapping material, electrons in the material are raised to a higher state where they are trapped and stay indefinitely. When infrared light strikes the material, the stored electrons are released from their traps and, upon falling to a lower energy level, emit visible light which can be detected and measured. Thus, to measure the amount of ambient radiation, the electron trapping material is stimulated with infrared light from an infrared source at the opposite end of the optical fiber. This infrared stimulation releases trapped electrons and causes the emission of visible light, at least a portion of which is collected and directed back down the optical fiber to the visible light detector, where it is converted into an electrical signal and measured. The infrared stimulation is modulated to allow for measurement of background fluorescence during radiation exposure when infrared stimulation is not applied. This background fluorescence is then substracted from the gross signal under infrared stimulation to yield a signal which changes linearly with radiation input.

    摘要翻译: 一种光电剂量计,其中电子捕获材料保持在光纤尖端的探针中。 将探针放置在具有要测量的辐射的区域中,并且将测量辐射读数的光纤的相对端放置在远离辐射源的位置。 当辐射照射到电子俘获材料上时,材料中的电子被升高到更高的状态,在这种状态下它们被捕获并无限期地保持。 当红外光照射材料时,所存储的电子从其陷阱中释放出来,并在下降到较低的能量水平时发出可被检测和测量的可见光。 因此,为了测量环境辐射的量,电子捕获材料用来自光纤相对端的红外源的红外光刺激。 这种红外线刺激释放被捕获的电子并引起可见光的发射,其中至少一部分被收集并且被引导回到光纤到可见光检测器,在那里被转换成电信号并被测量。 调制红外刺激,以便在不施加红外刺激时在辐射暴露期间测量背景荧光。 然后在红外线刺激下,将该背景荧光从总信号中减去,以产生随辐射输入线性变化的信号。

    High-luminance radioluminescent lamp
    7.
    发明授权
    High-luminance radioluminescent lamp 失效
    高亮度放射性发光灯

    公开(公告)号:US4855879A

    公开(公告)日:1989-08-08

    申请号:US229567

    申请日:1988-08-05

    IPC分类号: H01J65/08

    CPC分类号: H01J65/08

    摘要: In a preferred embodiment, a radioluminescent lamp having a glass face plate with a plurality of parallel planar light guides, each preferably having a transparent glass, sapphire or quartz base member, disposed perpendicularly with respect to the glass face plate and coated on both sides with a thin film of radioluminescent phosphor material. The plates are mounted in a sealed envelope filled with tritium gas, the radioactive decay of the tritium causing the phosphor to luminesce. The phosphor material and all but one of the edges of each light guide are overcoated with a reflective material, such as aluminum, to guide the generated light to a single edge of the light guide, which edge is adjacent the glass face plate. The phosphor is preferably a calcium sulfide-based material forming a continuous, binder-free layer on the transparent base member. The resulting structure has a high phosphor-surface-area to tritium-gas-volume ratio and directional light guiding, yielding a substantially higher output light density than conventional radioluminescent lamps.

    摘要翻译: 在优选实施例中,一种具有多个平行平面光导的玻璃面板的放射性发光灯,每个平面平面光导优选地具有透明玻璃,蓝宝石或石英基座部件,其相对于玻璃面板垂直设置并且涂覆在两侧上 一种放射性发光荧光体材料的薄膜。 板被安装在填充有氚气体的密封的信封中,氚的放射性衰变导致荧光体发光。 每个光导体的荧光体材料和除了一个边缘之外的所有边缘都用诸如铝的反射材料涂覆,以将所产生的光引导到光导的单个边缘,该边缘与玻璃面板相邻。 荧光体优选为在透明基材上形成连续的无粘合剂层的基于硫化钙的材料。 所得到的结构具有高的磷光体表面积与氚气体积比和定向光导,产生比常规放射性发光灯大得多的输出光密度。

    Method of producing a phosphor screen
    8.
    发明授权
    Method of producing a phosphor screen 失效
    荧光屏的制造方法

    公开(公告)号:US06344233B1

    公开(公告)日:2002-02-05

    申请号:US09648647

    申请日:2000-08-28

    IPC分类号: B05D512

    摘要: Making a phosphor screen by forming a phosphor powder that incorporates strontium, is made up of particles having a long dimension of less than about 5 microns and having superior response time. Slurrying the phosphor powder with a suitable solvent, dispersant, plasticizer and binder. Coating a suitable substate with an infra red absorbing layer. Coating the phosphor containing slurry onto the infra red absorbing layer. Drying the thus produced screen.

    摘要翻译: 通过形成掺入锶的荧光体粉末来制造荧光屏,由长度小于约5微米的颗粒组成并且具有优异的响应时间。 用合适的溶剂,分散剂,增塑剂和粘合剂对荧光体粉末进行粉碎。 用红外吸收层涂覆合适的基底。 将含荧光体的浆料涂布在红外线吸收层上。 干燥由此产生的屏幕。

    Phosphor powder
    9.
    发明授权
    Phosphor powder 失效
    磷粉

    公开(公告)号:US6110398A

    公开(公告)日:2000-08-29

    申请号:US40315

    申请日:1998-03-18

    摘要: A phosphor powder for producing a high resolution phosphor screen and a phosphor screen are provided. The phosphor screen comprises a substrate, an infrared-absorbing layer, and a phosphor layer coated on the infrared-absorbing layer, wherein the phosphor layer comprises a phosphor powder in which a substantial amount of particles in the powder have a particle size as measured in the longest dimension of greater than 0 and less than about 5 microns. The phosphor screen may also comprise a black, infrared-absorbing substrate with the phosphor layer coated on the substrate. The phosphor powder is formed by preparing a phosphor composition, sintering the composition to form ingots, grinding the ingots to form a powder wherein a substantial amount of particles in the powder have a particle size of greater than 0 and less than about 5 microns, reactivating the powder in an inert atmosphere to a temperature of from about 500.degree. C. to about 550.degree. C., preparing a suspension of the powder and a nonreactive organic solvent, mixing the suspension to separate particles of the powder which partially fuse during reactivation and to break up large agglomerates of the powder in the suspension, decanting the suspension to at least partially separate the nonreactive inorganic solvent and the powder, and drying the powder to form the phosphor powder.

    摘要翻译: 提供了用于制造高分辨率荧光屏和荧光屏的荧光体粉末。 荧光屏包括衬底,红外线吸收层和涂覆在红外线吸收层上的荧光体层,其中磷光体层包括荧光体粉末,其中大量的粉末中的颗粒具有如下测量的粒度: 最大尺寸大于0且小于约5微米。 荧光屏还可以包括黑色的红外线吸收衬底,荧光层涂覆在衬底上。 通过制备磷光体组合物来形成荧光体粉末,烧结组合物以形成晶锭,研磨锭以形成粉末,其中粉末中大量的颗粒具有大于0且小于约5微米的粒度,再活化 该粉末在惰性气氛中至约500℃至约550℃的温度,制备粉末和非反应性有机溶剂的悬浮液,将悬浮液混合分离出在再活化期间部分熔融的粉末颗粒;以及 以分散悬浮液中的粉末的大团块,将悬浮液倾析至少部分分离非反应性无机溶剂和粉末,并干燥粉末以形成荧光体粉末。

    Phosphor screen, method of producing the same, and method for preparing
a phosphor powder for producing a phosphor screen
    10.
    发明授权
    Phosphor screen, method of producing the same, and method for preparing a phosphor powder for producing a phosphor screen 失效
    荧光屏及其制造方法以及荧光体荧光粉的制造方法

    公开(公告)号:US5772916A

    公开(公告)日:1998-06-30

    申请号:US720980

    申请日:1996-10-15

    摘要: A phosphor powder for producing a high resolution phosphor screen and a phosphor screen are provided. The phosphor screen comprises a substrate, an infrared-absorbing layer, and a phosphor layer coated on the infrared-absorbing layer, wherein the phosphor layer comprises a phosphor powder in which a substantial amount of particles in the powder have a particle size as measured in the longest dimension of greater than 0 and less than about 5 microns. The phosphor screen may also comprise a black, infrared-absorbing substrate with the phosphor layer coated on the substrate. The phosphor powder is formed by preparing a phosphor composition, sintering the composition to form ingots, grinding the ingots to form a powder wherein a substantial amount of particles in the powder have a particle size of greater than 0 and less than about 5 microns, reactivating the powder in an inert atmosphere to a temperature of from about 500.degree. C. to about 550.degree. C., preparing a suspension of the powder and a nonreactive organic solvent, mixing the suspension to separate particles of the powder which partially fuse during reactivation and to break up large agglomerates of the powder in the suspension, decanting the suspension to at least partially separate the nonreactive inorganic solvent and the powder, and drying the powder to form the phosphor powder.

    摘要翻译: 提供了用于制造高分辨率荧光屏和荧光屏的荧光体粉末。 荧光屏包括衬底,红外线吸收层和涂覆在红外线吸收层上的荧光体层,其中磷光体层包括荧光体粉末,其中大量的粉末中的颗粒具有如下测量的粒度: 最大尺寸大于0且小于约5微米。 荧光屏还可以包括黑色的红外线吸收衬底,荧光层涂覆在衬底上。 通过制备磷光体组合物来形成荧光体粉末,烧结组合物以形成晶锭,研磨锭以形成粉末,其中粉末中大量的颗粒具有大于0且小于约5微米的粒度,再活化 该粉末在惰性气氛中至约500℃至约550℃的温度,制备粉末和非反应性有机溶剂的悬浮液,将悬浮液混合分离出在再活化期间部分熔融的粉末颗粒;以及 以分散悬浮液中的粉末的大团块,将悬浮液倾析至少部分分离非反应性无机溶剂和粉末,并干燥粉末以形成荧光体粉末。