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Direct radiation converter, radiation detector, medical apparatus and method for producing a direct radiation converter

US9097810B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Assignee

Siemens Aktiengesellschaft · DE

Inventors

Peter Hackenschmied · Nuremberg, DE
Christian Schröter · Bamberg, DE
Matthias Strassburg · Erlangen, DE

Key dates

Filing date	Jan 27, 2012
Grant date	Aug 4, 2015
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Dec 28, 2032

Classification

Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
CPC primaryH10F30/301
WIPO fieldEnvironmental technology
WIPO sectorChemistry

Abstract

A direct radiation converter is disclosed which includes a radiation detection material having an anode side and a cathode side in which the radiation detection material has a doping profile running in the anode-side to cathode-side direction. A radiation detector is further disclosed having such a direct radiation converter and having an anode array and a cathode array, and optionally having evaluation electronics for reading out a detector signal, as well as a medical apparatus having such a radiation detector. Also described is a method for producing a direct radiation converter which includes incorporating into a radiation detection material a doping profile running in the anode-side to cathode-side direction.

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