CT DETECTOR INCLUDING MULTI-LAYER FLUORESCENT TAPE SCINTILLATOR WITH SWITCHABLE SPECTRAL SENSITIVITY

摘要

A scintillator element (114) comprising uncured scintillator material (112) is formed and optically cured to generate a cured scintillator element (122, 122″). The uncured scintillator material suitably combines at least a scintillator material powder and an uncured polymeric host. In a reel to reel process, a flexible array of optical detectors is transferred from a source reel (100) to a take-up reel (106) and the uncured scintillator material (112) is disposed on the flexible array and optically cured during said transfer. Such detector layers (31, 32, 33, 34, 35) are stackable to define a multi-layer computed tomography (CT) detector array (20). Detector element channels (50, 50′, 50″) include a preamplifier (52) and switching circuitry (54, 54′, 54″) having a first mode connecting the preamplifier with at least first detector array layers (31, 32) and a second mode connecting the preamplifier with at least second detector array layers (33, 34, 35).