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High Efficiency, Low Cost
Scintillators for
Dr. Gerald Entine,
Dr. Gerald Entine, Business
Official, GEntine@rmdinc.com
DOE Grant No. DE-FG02-05ER84300
Amount: $100,000
Scintillation detectors,
consisting of inorganic scintillation crystals coupled to photomultiplier tubes,
are an important element of medical imaging applications such as positron
emission tomography (PET). Performance
as well as cost of these systems is limited by the properties of the scintilation
detectors available at present. This
project will investigate a new class of scintillation materials that can be
fabricated by using a low cost fabrication approach. Phase I will demonstrate the feasibility of
producing high performance scintillators using a low cost fabrication
approach. Scintillator samples will be
produced and performance will be
evaluated.
Commercial Applications and Other Benefits as described by the awardee: Over and above use in medical imaging, the new scintillators should be commercially applicable to non-destructive evaluation (NDE), bore hole logging, industrial CT imaging, X-ray instrumentation, and materials analysis. They also should be useful in particle and space physics experiments.