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Granted Patent B2
US 10,261,197 · App. 15/890,370 · Granted Apr 16, 2019

Radiation detector and radiographic imaging apparatus

Inventors: Shinichi Ushikura (Kanagawa, JP); Keiichi Akamatsu (Kanagawa, JP); Haruyasu Nakatsugawa (Kanagawa, JP)
Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
G01T1/2018G01T1/202G01T1/2023
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Patent No.
US 10,261,197
App. No.
15/890,370
Granted
Apr 16, 2019
Kind
B2
Abstract

A radiation detector includes a flexible substrate, and a sensor board including a layer which is provided on a first surface of the substrate and in which a plurality of pixels, which accumulate electrical charges generated in accordance with light converted from radiation, are formed, a conversion layer that is provided on the first surface side of the sensor board to convert radiation into light, a protective film that covers at least a region ranging from a region that covers the conversion layer to a region at an outer peripheral part of a second surface opposite to the first surface of the substrate, and a supporting member that supports the region of the substrate via the protective film from the second surface side of the substrate.

Claims (37)

1. A radiation detector comprising:

a sensor board including a flexible substrate and a layer which is provided on a first surface of the substrate and in which a plurality of pixels, which accumulate electrical charges generated in accordance with light converted from radiation, are formed;

a conversion layer that is provided on the first surface side of the sensor board to convert radiation into light;

a protective film that covers at least a region ranging from a region that covers the conversion layer to a predetermined region at an outer peripheral part of the second surface opposite to the first surface of the substrate; and

a supporting member that supports the predetermined region of the substrate via the protective film from the second surface side of the substrate.

2. The radiation detector according to claim 1 ,

wherein the predetermined region is a region on the second surface of the substrate corresponding to the outside of a region on the first surface of the substrate corresponding to a pixel region that is a region where the plurality of pixels are provided.

3. The radiation detector according to claim 1 ,

wherein the plurality of pixels include a plurality of first pixels, and a plurality of second pixels that are provided at an outer peripheral part of the plurality of first pixels and have a different application from the plurality of first pixels in forming a radiographic image, and

wherein the predetermined region is a region on the second surface of the substrate corresponding to the outside of a region where the plurality of first pixels are provided.

4. The radiation detector according to claim 1 ,

wherein a plurality of the supporting members are provided along a peripheral edge on the peripheral edge inward at a predetermined distance from an outer periphery of the second surface, and

wherein a total length of the plurality of supporting members along the peripheral edge is equal to or more than half of a length of the peripheral edge and less than the length of the peripheral edge.

5. The radiation detector according to claim 1 ,

wherein the sensor board has a pair of facing sides, and

wherein the supporting member is provided at least at each of the pair of sides.

6. The radiation detector according to claim 1 ,

wherein the protective film includes at least a first protective film that covers a surface opposite to a surface of the conversion layer where the sensor board is provided and a side surface of the conversion layer, and a second protective film that covers a region including the predetermined region and the entire first protective film.

7. The radiation detector according to claim 1 ,

wherein the protective film includes at least a first protective film that covers a surface opposite to a surface of the conversion layer where the sensor board is provided and a side surface of the conversion layer, and a second protective film that covers a region including the predetermined region and an end part of the first protective film.

8. The radiation detector according to claim 1 , further comprising:

an antistatic film provided on the second surface of the substrate.

9. The radiation detector according to claim 1 ,

wherein the protective film covers the entire second surface.

10. The radiation detector according to claim 1 , being used for imaging in which the second surface of the substrate is irradiated with radiation.

11. The radiation detector according to claim 1 ,

wherein the conversion layer includes CsI.

12. A radiographic imaging apparatus comprising:

the radiation detector according to claim 1 ;

a control unit that outputs control signals for reading electrical charges accumulated in the plurality of pixels;

a drive unit that reads the electrical charges from the plurality of pixels in accordance with the control signals; and

a signal processing unit to which electrical signals according to the electrical charges read from the plurality of pixels are input, and which generates image data according to the input electrical signals to output the image data to the control unit.

13. The radiographic imaging apparatus according to claim 12 ,

wherein the control unit and the radiation detector are provided side by side in a direction intersecting a lamination direction in which a substrate in the radiation detector, a layer in which the plurality of pixels are formed, and a conversion layer are arranged.

14. The radiographic imaging apparatus according to claim 12 , further comprising:

a power source unit that supplies electrical power to at least one of the control unit, the drive unit, or the signal processing unit,

wherein the power source unit, the control unit, and the radiation detector are provided side by side in a direction intersecting a lamination direction in which a substrate in the radiation detector, a layer in which the plurality of pixels are formed, and a conversion layer are arranged.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Feb 14, 2018
From: USHIKURA, SHINICHI; AKAMATSU, KEIICHI; NAKATSUGAWA, HARUYASU
To: FUJIFILM CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 044919/0544 →
Priority Claims (1)
JP 2017-056558 · Mar 22, 2017 · national
Continuity (1)
Related Publication 20180275290A1 · Sep 27, 2018
Cited By (1)
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