Gamma camera with reflectivity mask
Patent
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OSTI ID:6738534
A gamma camera is described with a plurality of photodetectors arranged for locating flashes of light produced by a scintillator in response to incident radiation. Masking material is arranged in a radially symmetric pattern on the front face of the scintillator about the axis of each photodetector to reduce the amount of internal reflection of optical photons induced by gamma ray photons.
- Assignee:
- Raytheon Co.
- Patent Number(s):
- US 4058727
- OSTI ID:
- 6738534
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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Related Subjects
440101* -- Radiation Instrumentation-- General Detectors or Monitors & Radiometric Instruments
46 INSTRUMENTATION RELATED TO NUCLEAR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
550601 -- Medicine-- Unsealed Radionuclides in Diagnostics
62 RADIOLOGY AND NUCLEAR MEDICINE
ANTIREFLECTION COATINGS
CAMERAS
COATINGS
DESIGN
ELECTROMAGNETIC RADIATION
GAMMA CAMERAS
MEASURING INSTRUMENTS
PHOTODETECTORS
RADIATION DETECTORS
RADIATIONS
REFLECTION
SCINTILLATION COUNTERS
SOLID SCINTILLATION DETECTORS
VISIBLE RADIATION
46 INSTRUMENTATION RELATED TO NUCLEAR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
550601 -- Medicine-- Unsealed Radionuclides in Diagnostics
62 RADIOLOGY AND NUCLEAR MEDICINE
ANTIREFLECTION COATINGS
CAMERAS
COATINGS
DESIGN
ELECTROMAGNETIC RADIATION
GAMMA CAMERAS
MEASURING INSTRUMENTS
PHOTODETECTORS
RADIATION DETECTORS
RADIATIONS
REFLECTION
SCINTILLATION COUNTERS
SOLID SCINTILLATION DETECTORS
VISIBLE RADIATION