Abstract: A solid state gamma camera module and integrated thermal management method thereof includes a printed circuit board having a first thermal layer and a second thermal layer. The first thermal layer is thermally and/or electrically bonded to the second thermal layer. A semiconductor detector module having the temperature sensitive material electrically communicates with the second thermal layer. A plurality of the integrated circuits each having a bottom metal layer and wire bonds are electrically connected to the first thermal layer. A cover is electrically and thermally bonded to the first thermal layer and covers the plurality of integrated circuits. The first thermal layer extracts heat from the integrated circuits by direct interface to the bottom metal layer (or the second thermal layer), and the second thermal layer extracts heat from an integrated circuit (IC) interconnect. The IC interconnect can be through a wire bond, die bond, direct solder flip chip attachment or the like.

Abstract: An electromagnetic wave source, which produces a recording electromagnetic wave, is located on one side of an object. A two-dimensional image read-out device is located on the other side of the object. The two-dimensional image read-out device comprises a charge accumulating section for accumulating latent image charges, which carry image information. An anisotropic fluorescent material screen is located between the object and the two-dimensional image read-out device, and an operation for recording and reading out an image of an object is performed in this state. Problems with regard to deterioration of image sharpness are thus capable of being reduced.

Abstract: Stimulating rays produced by a line light source are linearly irradiated onto an area of a stimulable phosphor sheet, on which a radiation image has been stored, the stimulating rays causing the sheet to emit light in proportion to an amount of energy stored thereon during its exposure to radiation. Light emitted from the exposed linear area of the sheet is received with a line sensor comprising photoelectric conversion devices arrayed along each of a length direction of the linear area of the stimulable phosphor sheet and a direction normal to the length direction. The sheet is moved with respect to the line light source and the line sensor and in a direction different from the length direction of the linear area of the sheet. Operation processing is performed on outputs of the photoelectric conversion devices, which outputs have been obtained at respective positions of movement and correspond to an identical site on the sheet.

Abstract: An articulation system that allows for the rotation of a TAC device of a dual detector scintigraphy camera in two successive positions, perpendicular and opposite, in order to make it possible to use the TAC device either with perpendicular detectors or with parallel detectors. This articulation system contains a joint face at a 45° angle in relation to the longitudinal axis of a support so that the TAC device can take on two positions, perpendicular and opposite, where passage from one position to the other is obtained by a 180° rotation in relation to the axis of this joint face.

Abstract: A device for the collection, digitization and analysis of synchrotron x-ray crystallographic data using an area detector which detects x-ray photons directly on arrays of solid state detectors and stores the information on capacitors located on readout unit cell array chips. The device consists of a two dimensional area detector, for amplification, collection and conversion of the diffracted x-rays to electrical signals, drive electronics for providing the timing pulses and biases to the area sensor, output electronics for converting the x-ray signals to digital signals and storing the signals, and a data processor to analyze the digital signal form the output electronics. The solid-state detector array is made up of a variable-area three-dimensional array of detector array chips where each chip is in turn made up of an array of solid-state detectors. Each detector on the detector array chip is electrically connected to a readout unit cell on a readout array chip directly beneath the detector array chip.

Abstract: A twin-detector type scintillation camera apparatus includes a pair of detectors which is disposed in opposition to each other with a table for supporting an object under examination being interposed therebetween to detect radioactive rays emitted from the object, a rotatable frame disposed in a plane extending in a direction orthogonal to a longitudinal axis of the table and supports the paired detectors at one side thereof, a translation mechanism capable of moving the paired detectors in parallel with each other in a plane extending orthogonally to the longitudinal axis of the object supporting table while maintaining parallelism between the paired detectors, an approaching mechanism which is capable of moving the pair of detectors in directions orthogonal to the directions in which the detectors are moved in parallel with each other, and a rotating mechanism capable of driving rotationally each of the detectors by a predetermined angular distance from a given position.