Inventors:
Lucas Lemar Clarke - Uniontown OH, US
Brian Marshall Palmer - Twinsburg OH, US
Jeffrey Louis Johanning - Hudson OH, US
Keith David Jones - Macedonia OH, US
James R. Williams - University Heights OH, US
Andrew Emanuel Shalhoub - Twinsburg OH, US
Assignee:
General Electric Company - Schenectady NY
International Classification:
G01T 1/20
Abstract:
A radiation detector includes a housing, an elongated, rectangular crystal having four longitudinally extending corners, and a photomultiplier tube both supported in the housing, with a light pipe located axially between respective facing ends of the photomultiplier tube and the crystal; and a plurality of elongated rails extending along respective ones of the longitudinally extending corners of the rectangular crystal, establishing an air gap between the crystal and the housing.