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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7854961 | Scintillation materials with reduced afterglow and method of preparation Scintillation materials of this invention have an alkali halide host material, a (first) scintillation dopant of various types, and a variety of second dopants (co-dopants). In another embodiment, the scintillation materials of this invention have an alkali halide h... | 12/21/2010 |
| 7422765 | Binderless storage phosphor screen with needle shaped crystals A binderless storage phosphor screen with needle shaped crystals, wherein the phosphor is an alkalihalide phosphor and the needles show high [100] unit cell orientation in the plane of the screen. ... | 09/09/2008 |
| 7419697 | Method for manufacturing photoconductive layer constituting radiation imaging panel Bismuth salt and metal alkoxide are reacted with each other under an acidic condition, and a Bi12MO20 precursor solution (where M is at least one of Ge, Si and Ti) is obtained. The obtained Bi12MO20 precursor solution is c... | 09/02/2008 |
| 7361378 | Method for manufacturing radiation image conversion panel A method for manufacturing a radiation image conversion panel which comprises the steps of: effecting aggregate reduction for a calcined product of a stimulable phosphor by dispersion in a dispersion medium, to thereby obtain a slurry; removing grains therefrom that... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7351442 | Method of preparing storage phosphors from dedicated precursors A method for producing CsX:Eu stimulable phosphors and screens or panels provided with said phosphors as powder phosphors or vapor deposited needle-shaped phosphors suitable for use in image forming methods for recording and reproducing images of objects made by hig... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7314582 | Lanthanide-halide based humidity indicators The present invention discloses a lanthanide-halide based humidity indicator and method of producing such indicator. The color of the present invention indicates the humidity of an atmosphere to which it is exposed. For example, impregnating an adsorbent support suc... | 01/01/2008 |
| 7303699 | Method for producing a scintillator ceramic A method for producing high-density, translucent, scintillator ceramics by way of a pressure-less sintering carried out at an elevated temperature. According to the method, particles of a MOS composition are prepared using a specific wet milling method whereby being... | 12/04/2007 |
| 7274020 | Gamma vector camera A gamma vector camera detects and determines the energy and the direction of an incident gamma ray. The gamma vector camera includes a detector that produces scintillation light upon interaction with the incident gamma ray. A sensor records the locations and the int... | 09/25/2007 |
| 7253421 | Radiation image conversion panel and manufacturing method thereof A radiation image storage panel which is provided with a stimulable phosphor substance layer containing a stimulable phosphor substance formed by a gas phase accumulation method on a support, wherein said stimulable phosphor substance layer is constituted of a colum... | 08/07/2007 |
| 7235279 | Process for producing a radiation image storage panel A coating composition comprising at least a stimulable phosphor, a binder, and a mixed solvent is prepared. The mixed solvent comprises a low boiling temperature solvent having a viscosity of at most 0.6 mPa·s and a high boiling temperature solvent having a viscosi... | 06/26/2007 |
| 7223353 | Phosphor layers for electroluminescent panels and methods of their manufacture A phosphor layer for an electroluminescent panel comprises a phosphor powder held in a binder. The binder comprises a mixture of two constituents, one of which is a drying oil or a semi-drying oil or a derivative and the other constituent is a sol-gel precursers. Ex... | 05/29/2007 |
| 7217944 | Process and apparatus for producing evaporated phosphor sheets and an evaporated phosphor sheet produced by means of such process and apparatus The process and apparatus introduce a carrier gas into a vacuum evaporation chamber, evaporate a film forming material from a evaporation source and deposit the evaporated film forming material on a substrate in sheet form to form a stimulable phosphor layer, thereb... | 05/15/2007 |
| 7211942 | Radiation image conversion panel There is provided a radiation image conversion panel having a sufficient quantity of emitted light and high graininess. The radiation image conversion panel has a phosphor layer containing a stimulable phosphor and a binder. The phosphor layer has at least two layer... | 05/01/2007 |
| 7202485 | Radiation image conversion panel and preparation method thereof A radiation image conversion panel exhibiting enhanced luminance and superior sharpness is disclosed, comprising on a support a stimulable phosphor layer, wherein the stimulable phosphor layer which has been formed by gas phase deposition has a thickness of 50 μm t... | 04/10/2007 |
| 7189426 | Needle-shaped x-ray fluorescent material and method for vapor-deposition thereof on a substrate In a method for vapor-depositing a substrate with a layer of a needle-shaped x-ray fluorescent material containing at least one alkali metal, alkali halide phases and an alkali halide are mixed in a vapor phase and are vapor-deposited on the substrate. A needle-shap... | 03/13/2007 |
| 7180068 | Scintillation materials with reduced afterglow and method of preparation Scintillation materials of this invention have an alkali halide host material, a (first) scintillation dopant of various types, and a variety of second dopants (co-dopants). In another embodiment, the scintillation materials of this invention have an alkali halide h... | 02/20/2007 |
| 7166845 | Method of enhancing performance of cerium doped lutetium yttrium orthosilicate crystals and crystals produced thereby A method for enhancing the light yield of a single crystal of cerium doped lutetium yttrium orthosilicate (LYSO) in response to irradiation with high energy radiation includes diffusing oxygen into the crystal by heating the crystal for a period of time in an ambien... | 01/23/2007 |
| 7151261 | Method of enhancing performance of cerium doped lutetium orthosilicate crystals and crystals produced thereby A method for enhancing the light yield of a single crystal of cerium doped lutetium orthosilicate (LSO) in response to irradiation with high energy radiation includes diffusing oxygen into the crystal by heating the crystal for a period of time in an ambient contain... | 12/19/2006 |
| 7117588 | Method for assembling tiled detectors for ionizing radiation based image detection The present technique provides a multi-tile detector and a process for assembling the multi-tile detector using a flexible structure and intermediate electrical connections. The present technique minimizes edge gaps between adjacent detector tiles by coupling the de... | 10/10/2006 |
| 7048967 | Organic film vapor deposition method and a scintillator panel An organic film vapor deposition method includes a first step of supporting a substrate formed with a scintillator on at least three protrusions of a target-support element disposed on a vapor deposition table so as to keep a distance from the vapor deposition table... | 05/23/2006 |
| 6992305 | Radiation image converting panel and production method of the same A radiation image converging panel comprising a support having thereon a stimulable phosphor layer produced by a vapor phase method so as to have a thickness of 50 μm to 10 mm, wherein the stimulable phosphor layer comprises:(i) a stimulable phosphor; and (ii) an a... | 01/31/2006 |
| 6936304 | Method for producing a luminophore or fluorescent layer A method for producing a coating of fluorescent or luminophore material includes the steps of depositing the luminophore material from a vapor phase on a substrate in such a manner that at least 30 weight-% of the luminophore material used is deposited on the substr... | 08/30/2005 |
| 6927404 | Radiation image storage panel having a particular layer arrangement A radiation image storage panel. The panel has a supported layer of storage phosphor particles dispersed in a binding medium, and adjacent thereto, between the layer and a support having reflective properties, a layer arrangement of intermediate layers inbetween the... | 08/09/2005 |
| 6793857 | Method for producing a one- or multidimensional detector array In order to produce a one- or multidimensional detector array (9; 15, 17; 70) for detecting electromagnetic radiation, in particular for detecting X-rays, a layer composite (1) is produced. The latter has a sensor layer (3) with a material (M) s... | 09/21/2004 |
| 6737103 | Design and manufacturing approach to the implementation of a microlens-array based scintillation conversion screen A portable, self-contained, electronic radioscopic imaging system uses a pulsed X-ray source, a remote X-ray sensor, and a self-contained, display and controller unit to produce, store, and/or display digital radioscopic images of an object under investigation in lo... | 05/18/2004 |
| 6730243 | Cesium halide storage phosphor with narrow emission spectrum upon UV-excitation A CsBr:Eu phosphor showing a narrow emission spectrum upon UV-excitation and panels including such a phosphor are disclosed. Also methods for preparing such a phosphor have been described. ... | 05/04/2004 |
| 6720026 | Method for improving the optical separation of fluorescent layers In a method for improving the optical separation of needle-shaped fluorescent layers, made from a fluorescent material, which are formed by vapor deposition on a substrate, vapor deposition is controlled so that the fluorescent layer is deposited on the substrate wi... | 04/13/2004 |
| 6641858 | Phosphor layer for radiation image conversion panel A method of preparing a phosphor layer coating solution of a radiation image conversion panel is provided, in which, at least a phosphor, a binder, a cross-linking agent which cross-links the binder by being heated, and a solvent are constituent component... | 11/04/2003 |
| 6605313 | Process and apparatus for manufacturing auto-collimating phosphors There is described a process and apparatus for the physical vapor deposition of an anisotropic phosphor composition with an auto-collimating, optical waveguide structure.... | 08/12/2003 |
| 6379746 | Method for temporarily protecting glass articles Methods for temporarily protecting a surface of a glass article by coating the surface are provided. The methods include forming a stable, hydrophobic, removable film on the surface at the end of the glass manufacturing process while the glass is still at... | 04/30/2002 |
| 6344233 | Method of producing a phosphor screen Making a phosphor screen by forming a phosphor powder that incorporates strontium, is made up of particles having a long dimension of less than about 5 microns and having superior response time. Slurrying the phosphor powder with a suitable solvent, dispe... | 02/05/2002 |
| 6309901 | Use of glass laminate as a substrate in semiconductor devices A method for making a semiconductor device is disclosed which comprises the step of applying a functional layer on a substrate, characterized in that said substrate is a laminate which comprises a support and a glass layer, said glass layer having a thick... | 10/30/2001 |
| 6210755 | Method and evaporation chamber for generating a continuous vapor stream containing a compound having monovalent gallium therein, and a vacuum coating apparatus In a method and evaporation chamber for generating a continuous vapor stream containing a compound in which gallium is present in monovalent form of a vacuum coating method for vacuum coating a substrate, an evaporation substance containing gallium in biv... | 04/03/2001 |
| 6171643 | Method of producing multilayer plate for x-ray imaging A method for producing a multilayer plate for X-ray imaging is disclosed. As the first step in the method, there is provided a plate of a substrate. Then, there is deposited on this substrate a thin film of amorphous arsenic triselenide by thermal evapora... | 01/09/2001 |
| 6103296 | Method for improving the screen brightness of gadolinium oxysulfide x-ray phosphors A method is provided for improving the x-ray screen brightness of gadolinium oxysulfide x-ray phosphors. The method applies annealing and acid washing steps in a specific order following deagglomeration of the phosphor in order to ameliorate the loss of b... | 08/15/2000 |
| 5866266 | Radiation image storage panel and its preparation In a radiation image storage panel comprising a stimulable phosphor layer and a protective film placed thereon, the protective film is made of a film of plastic material and a layer of a fluororesin-containing resin composition coated on the phosphor laye... | 02/02/1999 |
| 5607733 | Process for preparing an X-ray mask structure A process for preparing an X-ray mask structure comprises an X-ray transmissive film, an X-ray absorptive member held on the X-ray transmissive film and supporting frame for supporting the X-ray transmissive film. The X-ray absorptive member is constitute... | 03/04/1997 |
| 5599588 | Process for preparing metal halides by the sol-gel-method The present invention concerns a process for obtaining metal halides, in particular rare earth and/or alkali earth halides. This process consists of forming a homogeneous solution by mixing one or more rare earth and/or alkali earth halogenoalkoxides in a... | 02/04/1997 |
| 5569485 | Method for the manufacture of a radiographic intensifying screen with antistat The performance of phosphor screens can be improved by adding an antistatic agent into the protective topcoat of the radiographic screen when the antistatic agent preferably comprises a fluorocarbon or silicone antistatic agent. These antistatic agents ar... | 10/29/1996 |
| 5540947 | X-ray intensifying screens and method of manufacturing the same An X-ray intensifying screen comprises a support and a layer containing a direct emission phosphor formed without a binder. The preferred direct emission phosphor is a rare earth silicate phosphor. Said X-ray intensifying screen is useful in the methods f... | 07/30/1996 |
