Extension of dynamic range in X-ray radiography using multi-color scintillation detector

Autor: Koichi Nittoh, Eiji Oyaizu, Koh-ichi Mochiki, Tetsuo Sakurai, Tadashi Yoshida
Rok vydání: 2003
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Zdroj: Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment. 501:615-622
ISSN: 0168-9002
DOI: 10.1016/s0168-9002(03)00424-8
Popis: A new imaging system using the multi-color scintillator Gd 2 O 2 S:Eu has been developed for the X-ray radiography. In this method a color Charge Coupled Device detects the weak blue and green photons associated with the transitions from the terms like 5 D 1 and 5 D 2 in the Eu-ions as well as the dominant red photons. As these transitions become appreciable and saturate at quite different intensity levels of the X-ray, we can realize a big extension of the dynamic range of the imaging almost by hundred times in comparison with the conventional monochromatic method. As a result, the new system makes it possible to take a clear image of any complex object, which consists of various parts of the different X-ray penetrability, from plastic to heavy metal, at a single shot.
Databáze: OpenAIRE