Abstract:
A radiation detection element includes a base material, a first electrode, a second electrode, a third electrode, a fourth electrode, a fifth electrode, a first external terminal, a second external terminal, a third external terminal, and a fourth external terminal. Each of the first external terminal, the second external terminal, the third external terminal, and the fourth external terminal is a solder ball, and the first external terminal, the second external terminal, the third external terminal, and the fourth external terminal are insulated from each other. A region provided on the first electrode, the second electrode, the third electrode, the fourth electrode, and the fifth electrode overlaps at least one of the first external terminal, the second external terminal, the third external terminal, and the fourth external terminal in a view vertical to the first surface side of the base material.
Abstract:
A radiation image forming apparatus includes a detection unit including a plurality of Compton cameras. Each of the plurality of Compton cameras including a radiation detection device that includes a plurality of pixels, each configured to detect an electron generated by the track of a recoil electron generated by Compton scattering, and is configured to output a detection signal configured to specify the position of a pixel that has detected the electron and a time when the pixel has detected the electron, and a detection module configured to detect the incident position of scattered γ rays generated by the Compton scattering. The plurality of the Compton cameras arranged annularly to surround a region in which a specimen is placed.
Abstract:
An ion filter used for an electron multiplier includes an insulating substrate; a first conductive layer formed on one main surface of the substrate; and a second conductive layer formed on another main surface of the substrate. The ion filter has a plurality of through-holes formed along a thickness direction of the substrate. The one main surface of the substrate is disposed at a downstream side in a moving direction of electrons in a chamber of the electron multiplier and the other main surface of the substrate is disposed at an upstream side in the moving direction of electrons in the chamber of the electron multiplier. A first thickness of the first conductive layer formed on the one main surface of the substrate is thicker than a second thickness of the second conductive layer on the other main surface of the substrate.
Abstract:
The object of the invention is to provide a bonding method for brazing an amorphous carbon (AC) material to a metal material or a ceramic material, and to provide an electron tube device having an input/output window made of the amorphous carbon material. The surface of the amorphous carbon (AC) material is roughened to form an irregularity. A brazing material is sandwiched between the amorphous carbon material and a metal material or ceramic material. The resultant structure is heated to braze the amorphous carbon material to the metal material or ceramic material. The electron tube device includes a sealed vessel having an opening portion, a peripheral portion of which is made of a metal material or a ceramic material. The electron tube device further includes a window, made of an amorphous carbon material and bonded to the peripheral portion of the opening portion with a brazing material, and having irregularity on a surface around the opening portion.
Abstract:
A medical imaging device using X- or gamma ionizing radiation, provided with a source of radiation in a divergent beam diaphragmed by a slit and a module for detecting a beam transmitted by a body to be observed, illuminated by the beam. The detection module comprises a drift chamber and a multiwire chamber which are filled with a gas, these chambers comprising, in a direction orthogonal to the plane containing the slit and the illumination beam, a drift space for the electrons, an electron proportional multiplier grid for generating multiplied electrons and corresponding ions and a second cathode electrode making it possible to count the multiplied electrons by means of the corresponding ions for a plurality of directions of the sheet-form illumination beam.
Abstract:
A window for transmitting radiation of 20 microns or longer comprises a layer supported around its periphery by a frame. The layer comprises a first major surface on one side capable of receiving the radiation and a second major surface on the opposite side to the first major surface. The layer comprises a plurality of diamonds and a bonding polymeric resin capable of transmitting the radiation. The diamonds can, in one embodiment, be diamond plates located edge-on relative to neighbouring diamond plates.
Abstract:
The invention relates to a method for heating a gas phase stabilizer (5) installed within a gas-filled proportional counter (1) in order to activate the stabilizer (5). According to the invention, the heat is conducted into the proportional counter (1) along a thermal inlet (3), which is in thermal exchange contact with the stabilizer (5). The thermal inlet (3) employed in forming the gas filling can advantageously be employed for heating the stabilizer up to the activating temperature.
Abstract:
A method for increasing the efficiency of gas ionization detectors for diagnostic x-rays by matching a detector gas absorption edge with the energy level of an x-ray source to produce photons of only slightly higher energy. Sequential x-ray images using different matched gas absorption edges and x-ray source energies allows contrast information to be obtained to distinguish calcium deposits or dye from bone, for example.Specific ionization detectors useful for practicing the inventive methods are also described. One such detector uses ultrafast electronics associated with individual wires of a multiwire two dimensional proportional counter.Another detector employs a conductor backed sheet of insulating material to immobilize positive gas ions in a density distribution conforming to the x-ray image. The density distribution may subsequently be read out by electromechanical means for sensing the potential differences on the sheet. The potential sensing means may be located within or outside the detector chamber.
Abstract:
An inner and outer cylindrical cathode are concentrically positioned about a vertical center axis. Vertical anode electrodes extend parallel to the center axis and are symmetrically arranged around the inter-cylinder space between the cathodes. The ends of the anode wires are supported by a pair of insulator rings mounted near the top and bottom of the cathode cylinders. A collection voltage applied to each anode wire for establishing an inward radial E field to the inner cathode cylinder and an outward radial E field to the outer cathode cylinder. The anode-cathode assembly is mounted within a housing containing a conversion gas. A radioactive sample is inserted into the inner cathode which functions as a tubular, deep well radiation window between the sample environment and the conversion gas environment. A portion of the gamma radiations passing through the inter-cylinder region interact with the conversion gas to produce free electrons which are accelerated by the E fields and collected on the anode wires. The extremely small diameter of the anode wires intensifies the electric fields proximate each wire causing avalanche multiplication of the free electrons resulting in a detectable charge pulse.
Abstract:
There is provided a proportional detector which is intended for use together with an X-ray tube in fluorescence measuring apparatus. The detector comprises a circular-cylindrical body which is divided into a plurality of identical sectors forming the chamber (3) of said detector and which has a circular-cylindrical recess (1) for accommodating an X-ray tube (2).The inner surfaces of the chambers (3) comprise a metal or a metal coating (4) and are electrically conductive. Extending axially within the chambers (3) is a thin wire (5) which forms the positive electrode of the detector. The inner surfaces of the chambers form the negative electrode of the detector. The detector is intended to be placed on the sample to be examined.