Scintillation array apparatus and method of use thereof

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 9974978
APP PUB NO 20160354616A1
SERIAL NO

15239773

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A scintillation material is longitudinally packaged in a circumferentially surrounding sheath, where the sheath has a lower index of refraction than the scintillation material, to form a scintillation optic or scintillation fiber optic. The scintillation material yields secondary photons upon passage of a charged particle beam, such as a positively charged residual particle beam having transmitted through a sample. The internally generated secondary photons within the sheath are guided to a detector element by the difference in index of refraction. Multiple scintillation optics are assembled to form a two-dimensional scintillation array coupled to a two-dimensional detector array, such as for use in determination of state of the residual charged particle beam, determination of an exit point of the particle beam from the sample, path of the treatment beam, and/or tomographic imaging.

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PROTOM INTERNATIONAL HOLDING CORPORATION610 PARKER SQUARE FLOWER MOUND TX 75028

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Amato, Mark R South Hamilton, US 54 279
Bennett, James P Birmingham, US 50 316
Lee, W Davis Newburyport, US 99 450
Spotts, Stephen L Argyle, US 19 195

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