According to one embodiment, a scintillator includes a first layer provided on a surface of a substrate and including thallium activated cesium iodide; and a second layer provided on the first layer and including thallium activated cesium iodide. The second layer includes crystals having a [100] orientation partially diverted from a direction perpendicular to the surface of the substrate. Half width at half maximum of a frequency distribution curve of an angle between the direction perpendicular to the surface of the substrate and the [001] orientation, which is obtained by measuring the angle using EBSD method, is 2.4 degree or less.

Disclosed are a Li.sup.+ doped metal halide scintillation crystal with a zero-dimensional perovskite structure, a preparation method and use thereof. The scintillation crystal has a chemical formula of Cs.sub.3-xCu.sub.2I.sub.5:xLi, where x is in a range of 0.003 to 0.3. The method for preparing the scintillation crystal comprises the steps of: weighting and fully mixing a CuI powder, a CsI powder and a LiI powder in a molar ratio of 2:(3-x):x in an inert atmosphere to obtain a mixed powder, and growing into the scintillation crystal from the mixed powder by Bridgman Stockbarger method. After excited, the scintillation crystal could emit a broadband blue light in a range of 350-550 nm, with an intensity much higher than that of the original pure component crystal. The existence of Li.sup.+ further expands the application of the scintillation crystals from X/γ-ray detection to neutron detection.

This application relates generally to improving energy resolution of measured energy data. One or more embodiments includes a method including obtaining first energy data representative of amounts of energy measured at a first number of energy levels. The method may also include generating second energy data based on the first energy data. The second energy data may be representative of amounts of energy at a second number of energy levels. The second energy data may exhibit a higher energy resolution than the first energy data. Related devices, systems and methods are also disclosed.

Disclosed are a ray converter and a ray detection panel device. The ray converter (100, 100′) includes a substrate (110) and a conversion body (120). The substrate (110) includes a medium carrier. The medium carrier has a mesoporous structure distributed in an array. A pore of the mesoporous structure extends from an entrance end of the substrate (110) to an exit end of the substrate (110). The conversion body (120) is filled in the pore. The ray detection panel device includes a ray converter (100, 100′) and a light sensor.

Codoped lutetium-based oxyorthosilicate scintillators (e.g., lutetium oxyorthosilicase (LSO) and lutetium-ytrrium oxyorthosilicate (LYSO) scintillators) codoped with transition metal ions (e.g., Cu.sup.2+) are described. The codoping can alter one or more optical and/or scintillation property of the scintillator material. For example, the codoping can increase scintillation light yield and/or decrease scintillation decay time. Radiation detectors comprising the scintillators, methods of detecting high energy radiation using the radiation detectors, and methods of altering one or more scintillation and/or optical properties of a lutetium-based oxyorthosilicate scintillator are also described.

A low cost, rapid, flexible radiation detector uses inorganic metal halide precursors and dyes that respond to self-quenching hybrid scintillation. Remote, high-contrast, laser sensing can be used to determine when exposure of the detector to radiation occurs (even temporally).

A scintillation crystal can include a cesium halide that is co-doped with thallium and another element. In an embodiment, the scintillation crystal can include CsX:Tl, Me, where X represents a halogen, and Me represents a Group 5A element. In a particular embodiment, the scintillation crystal may have a cesium iodide host material, a first dopant including a thallium cation, and a second dopant including an antimony cation.

A system for directional detection of radiation, comprises a plurality of scintillating crystals, responsive to the radiation and being arranged three-dimensionally, with voids between adjacent crystals, such that there are crystals that are inner and crystals that are outer within the arrangement. The system also comprises a plurality of light sensors coupled to the crystals for receiving optical signals from the crystals and responsively generating electrical signals, and a data processor receiving an electrical signal separately from each light sensor and calculating a direction of the radiation based on relative intensities of the signals and mutual occultation among different crystals.

A scintillator panel includes a substrate made of an organic material, a barrier layer formed on the substrate and including thallium iodide as a main component, and a scintillator layer formed on the barrier layer and including cesium iodide as a main component. According to this scintillator panel, moisture resistance can be improved by providing the barrier layer between the substrate and the scintillator layer.

A sensitized composite scintillator which optionally interacts with ionizing radiation is provided having a vitreous or plastic matrix in which there are incorporated perovskite nanostructures which sensitize light emitters.