Thin scintillators for ultrafast hard X-ray imaging

Zhehui Wang; Cris W. Barnes; Jon S. Kapustinsky; Chris L. Morris; Ron O. Nelson; Fan Yang; Liyuan Zhang; Ren-Yuan Zhu

doi:10.1117/12.2178420

6 May 2015 Thin scintillators for ultrafast hard X-ray imaging

Zhehui Wang, Cris W. Barnes, Jon S. Kapustinsky, Chris L. Morris, Ron O. Nelson, Fan Yang, Liyuan Zhang, Ren-Yuan Zhu

Proceedings Volume 9504, Photon Counting Applications 2015; 95040N (2015) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2178420
Event: SPIE Optics + Optoelectronics, 2015, Prague, Czech Republic

Abstract

A multilayer thin-scintillator concept is described for ultrafast imaging. The individual layer thickness is determined by the spatial resolution and light attenuation length, the number of layers is determined by the overall efficiency. By coating the scintillators with a high quantum-efficiency photocathode, single X-ray photon detection can be achieved using fast scintillators with low light yield. The fast, efficient sensors, when combined with MCP and novel nanostructed electron amplification schemes, is a possible way towards GHz hard X-ray cameras for a few frames of images.

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Zhehui Wang, Cris W. Barnes, Jon S. Kapustinsky, Chris L. Morris, Ron O. Nelson, Fan Yang, Liyuan Zhang, and Ren-Yuan Zhu "Thin scintillators for ultrafast hard X-ray imaging", Proc. SPIE 9504, Photon Counting Applications 2015, 95040N (6 May 2015); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2178420

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