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    Scintillation detectors and xenon gas ionization chambers are the two main types of detector systems used in CT scans. Scintillation detectors utilize scintillating crystals that produce light when struck by X-rays, which is then converted to an electrical signal. Xenon gas ionization chambers consist of thin ionizing plates submerged in xenon gas, where X-rays create charged particles that are collected as a signal. Scintillation detectors have higher efficiency around 95-100% while xenon gas detectors have lower efficiency of 50-60% but produce less afterglow. Both detector types measure X-ray transmission and convert it to electrical signals used to construct CT images.

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    Scintillation detectors and xenon gas ionization chambers are the two main types of detector systems used in CT scans. Scintillation detectors utilize scintillating crystals that produce light when struck by X-rays, which is then converted to an electrical signal. Xenon gas ionization chambers consist of thin ionizing plates submerged in xenon gas, where X-rays create charged particles that are collected as a signal. Scintillation detectors have higher efficiency around 95-100% while xenon gas detectors have lower efficiency of 50-60% but produce less afterglow. Both detector types measure X-ray transmission and convert it to electrical signals used to construct CT images.

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    Scintillation detectors and xenon gas ionization chambers are the two main types of detector systems used in CT scans. Scintillation detectors utilize scintillating crystals that produce light when struck by X-rays, which is then converted to an electrical signal. Xenon gas ionization chambers consist of thin ionizing plates submerged in xenon gas, where X-rays create charged particles that are collected as a signal. Scintillation detectors have higher efficiency around 95-100% while xenon gas detectors have lower efficiency of 50-60% but produce less afterglow. Both detector types measure X-ray transmission and convert it to electrical signals used to construct CT images.

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    Detector System in CT

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    Scintillation detectors and xenon gas ionization chambers are the two main types of detector systems used in CT scans. Scintillation detectors utilize scintillating crystals that produce light when struck by X-rays, which is then converted to an electrical signal. Xenon gas ionization chambers consist of thin ionizing plates submerged in xenon gas, where X-rays create charged particles that are collected as a signal. Scintillation detectors have higher efficiency around 95-100% while xenon gas detectors have lower efficiency of 50-60% but produce less afterglow. Both detector types measure X-ray transmission and convert it to electrical signals used to construct CT images.

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    Types of Detector System Used In CT

    Name: Kuber Neupane


    Course: B.Sc. MIT
    Date: 20/05/2021
    Detector
    Detector is a device that gathers information by measuring the X-rays transmission through the
    patient and converts the X-ray transmission data into an electrical signal.
    Features of Detectors
    Higher Efficiency

    Stability

    Faster response time

    Wider dynamic Range

    Reduced afterglow
    Types of Detector
    Scintillation Detector

    Xenon gas Ionization Chambers


    Scintillation Detector
    It Utilizes scintillating crystal that produces light energy when stuck by an X-rays.

    X-ray

    Scintillation Crystals

    PM Tube
    Scintillating Crystals
     Sodium Iodide
     Cesium Iodide
    Analog Signal
     Cadmium Tungstate
     Bismuth Germinate
    Xenon Gas Ionization Chambers
    Consists of a chamber with thin ionization plates (Tungsten) acting as a electron collection
    plates submerged in a Xenon gas.
    Anode

    -
    - - - - - -
    -
    + + + + +

    Electrical / analog
    X-ray Charged Plate with Signal
    Xenon Gas

    Cathode
    Gas filled detectors operates at three modes which are determined by the
    voltage.
    For a low voltage, only negative ions produced by the photon are collected by the
    anode. The gas filled detector operating in this mode is called as Ionization
    Chamber.
    Current is directly proportional to the intensity of incoming radiation.
    Why Xenon Gas?

    Stable under extreme amount of pressure.


    High Atomic number.
    Uses high pressure (25 atmospheres) gas between two ionizing plates.
    Efficiency of detector
    • It describes the percentage of incoming photons that a detector converts
    into useable electrical signal.

    DETECTORS DETECTOR EFFICIENCY

    Scintillation Detectors 95% to 100%


    Xenon Gas Detectors 50 to 60%
    Difference?
    Scintillation Detector Xenon Gas Filled Detector

    Uses Scintillating crystals Uses Xenon gas

    Used in 1st, 2nd, 3rd,4th Generation CT Used in 3rd Generation CT

    Higher efficiency Low efficiency

    Afterglow Minimum afterglow


    Reference

    Christensen’s Physics of Diagnostic Radiology:


    Computed Tomography: Euclid Seera

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