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Scintillators comprising an organic photodetection shell

US9874642B2 · kind B2 · utility

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23Claims

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Assignee

Siemens Healthcare Limited · DE

Inventors

David Hartmann · Erlangen, DE
Patric Buechele · Erlangen, DE
Sandro Francesco Tedde · Weisendorf, DE
Oliver Schmidt · Erlangen, DE
Andreas Kanitz · Edenkoben, DE

Key dates

Filing date	Dec 11, 2014
Grant date	Jan 23, 2018
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Dec 11, 2034

Classification

Technology area (CPC G)Physics
CPC primaryG01T1/20
WIPO fieldEnvironmental technology
WIPO sectorChemistry

Abstract

A coated scintillator particle, a scintillator particle coated with a semiconducting photoactive material, a method for producing such scintillator particles, an x-ray detector, a gamma-ray detector, and a UV detector using such coated scintillator particles, a method for producing such x-ray detector, gamma-ray detector, or UV detector, and the use of the coated scintillator particles for detecting high-energy radiation, e.g., radiation, gamma radiation and/or x-rays, are disclosed.

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