Abstract:
A radiolucent mat includes a strap system configured to secure the radiolucent mat to an image receptor, and a body portion extending along orthogonal length and width directions of the body portion and including a top major surface configured to face away from the image receptor. The top major surface includes one or more first visual indicia delineating a region of the top major surface corresponding to an active region of the image receptor. An image receptor assembly includes the radiolucent mat and a radiography image receptor having an active region. The body portion is disposed on the image receptor such that the body portion and the image receptor are substantially coextensive with one another along the length and width directions.
Abstract:
A scintillator array includes: a structure having at least one scintillator segment and a first reflective layer, the at least one scintillator segment and the first reflective layer having a first surface and a second surface, the at least one scintillator segment having a sintered compact containing a rare earth oxysulfide phosphor, and the first reflective layer being configured to reflect light; and a second reflective layer provided above the first surface via an adhesive layer, the adhesive layer having a thickness of 2 μm or more and 40 μm or less, and the second reflective layer having a film configured to reflect light.
Abstract:
A medical imaging system includes a first tracking detector and a second tracking detector. The tracking detectors are spaced to allow for an object to be present between the first tracking detector and the second tracking detector. The system also includes a residual range detector adjacent the first tracking detector. The residual range detector includes: (1) a scintillator material having a first surface at least partially covered with an anti-reflection material and a second surface facing the first tracking detector and (2) at least one photon detector coupled to the scintillator material at a third surface of the scintillator material different than the first surface and opposite the second surface.
Abstract:
A back illuminated sensor is included as a collector component of a detector for use in intraoral and extraoral 2D and 3D dental radiography, digital tomosynthesis, photon-counting computed tomography, positron emission tomography (PET), and single-photon emission computed tomography (SPECT). The disclosed imaging method includes one or more intraoral or extraoral emitters for emitting a low-dose gamma ray or x-ray beam through an examination area; and one or more intraoral or extraoral detectors for receiving the beam, each detector including a back illuminated sensor. Within the detector, the beam is converted into light and then focused and collected at a photocathode layer without passing through the wiring layer of the back illuminated sensor.
Abstract:
A radiation imaging apparatus including: a first scintillator layer configured to convert a radiation (R) which has entered the first scintillator layer into light; a second scintillator layer configured to convert a radiation transmitted through the first scintillator layer into light; a fiber optic plate (FOP) provided between the first scintillator layer and the second scintillator layer; and an imaging portion configured to convert the light generated in the first scintillator layer and the light generated in the second scintillator layer into an electric signal.
Abstract:
A method includes selecting, in a radiographic exposure unit, a direct radiographic panel as an active panel for a forthcoming radiographic exposure, activating a gravity sensor installed on the direct radiographic panel, and activating by the activated gravity sensor a processor installed on the direct radiographic panel. As a result of a communication from the processor with a radiographic work station over a network, the activated direct radiographic panel is retained as the active direct radiographic panel for the forthcoming radiographic exposure.
Abstract:
The invention comprises a patient specific tray insert removably inserted into a tray frame to form a beam control tray assembly, which is removably inserted into a slot of a tray receiver assembly proximate a gantry nozzle of a charged particle cancer treatment system. Optionally, multiple tray inserts, each used to control a different beam state parameter, are inserted into corresponding slots of the tray receiver assembly where the multiple inserts are used to control beam intensity, shape, focus, and/or energy. The beam control tray assembling includes an identifier, such as an electromechanical identifier, of the particular insert type, which is communicated to a main controller, such as via the tray receiver assembly along with slot position and/or patient information.
Abstract:
The invention relates to the use of β− emitting radiolabeled tracers for administration to a patient prior to radio-guided surgery, and to the corresponding probes designed to intraoperatively detect β− decays from cancerous tissues so as to locate even small cancerous remnants still present after resection of the main cancerous lesions. The β− emitting radiolabeled tracer is labeled with a radioisotope undergoing exclusively β− decays or a radioisotope undergoing β− decays and having no more than 10-11% of γ rays decays. The corresponding probe has an extension direction along a longitudinal axis and has one or more blocks of scintillating material, each one having a main extension parallel to the longitudinal axis and transversal dimensions smaller than 3 mm, with each of the blocks being partially shielded by a material that is inactive with respect to β− radiation.
Abstract:
A radiological image conversion panel 2 is provided with a phosphor 18 containing a fluorescent material that emits fluorescence by radiation exposure, in which the phosphor includes, a columnar section 34 formed by a group of columnar crystals which are obtained through columnar growth of crystals of the fluorescent material, and a non-columnar section 36, the columnar section and the non-columnar section are integrally formed to overlap in a crystal growth direction of the columnar crystals, and a thickness of the non-columnar section along the crystal growth direction is non-uniform in a region of at least a part of the non-columnar section.