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Radiation detector assembly for generating a two-dimensional image

US4454422A · kind A · utility

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Filing dateJan 27, 1982
Grant dateJun 12, 1984
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Expiry dateJan 27, 2002

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  • Technology area (CPC G)Physics
  • CPC primaryG01T1/1645
  • WIPO fieldEnvironmental technology
  • WIPO sectorChemistry

Abstract

The radiation detector basically contains a vacuum window supported by a vacuum tight envelope, a scintillator, an interface, a photo-cathode, preferably a grid, an electron multiplier such as a multichannel plate, and a location sensitive detector. The radiation detector is particularly useful in generating two-dimensional images in nuclear medicine.

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