HOLLOW GRID AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF

• US 20100006781A1
• Filed: 08/25/2006
• Published: 01/14/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 08/25/2006
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Shimadzu Corporation
• Original Assignee: Shimadzu Corporation
• Inventors: Tonami, Hiromichi
• Application Number:
  US12/374,972
• Publication Number:
  US 20100006781A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 250/515.100
• CPC Class Codes: G21K 1/025 using multiple collimators, e.g. Bucky screens; other devices for eliminating undesired or dispersed radiation
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 29/49826 Assembling or joining

Abstract

A hollow grid that can be manufactured easily, capable of inhibiting the generation of moire fringes, and absorbing less transmitted X-rays is provided. The hollow grid uses no intermediate material that is capable of transmitting the X-rays. X-ray shielding members are located at intervals of an integral multiple of a pixel pitch of a two-dimensional radiation detector. The X-ray shielding members are held by adhering to the upper and lower wrapping members. Therefore, through a sensitivity correction, the structure, in which the generation of moire fringe is difficult, is provided. Since the hollow grid is assembled by means of an assembling jig, the intervals of the X-ray shielding members can be formed easily with high precision. The quality variation of the completed hollow grids is small, and the product precision is high.

Claims

1. A hollow grid, comprising:

a plurality of radiation shielding members, disposed obliquely along a row direction, wherein extending surfaces of the plurality of radiation shielding members are converged toward one straight line;

a plurality of wrapping members, arranged along a column direction, and adhered to and fixed on radiation incident sides of the plurality of radiation shielding members; and

a plurality of wrapping members, arranged along the column direction, and adhered to and fixed on sides opposite to the radiation incident sides of the plurality of radiation shielding members.

2. A method for manufacturing a hollow grid, comprising:

Step (A) of respectively inserting radiation shielding members into a plurality of slots of an assembling jig composed by a slot board with a plurality of formed specified slots, such that the radiation shielding members are obliquely disposed, and extending surfaces of the radiation shielding members are converged on one straight line;

Step (B) of adhering wrapping members to radiation incident sides or sides opposite to the radiation incident sides of the X-ray shielding members for curing;

Step (C) of making the assembling jig slide, and adhering wrapping members to the sides of the X-ray shielding members for curing;

Step (D) of repeating the Step (B) and the Step (C) until the plurality of wrapping members is adhered to the radiation incident sides and the opposite sides of all the X-ray shielding members.