US 12,276,764 B2
Prismatoid light guide
Amirhossein Goldan, Stony Brook, NY (US); Andrew Labella, New Rochelle, NY (US); Wei Zhao, East Setauket, NY (US); and Anthony Lubinsky, Port Jefferson Station, NY (US)
Assigned to The Research Foundation for The State University of New York, Albany, NY (US)
Filed by The Research Foundation for The State University of New York, Albany, NY (US)
Filed on Dec. 4, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/528,304.
Application 18/528,304 is a continuation of application No. 17/417,552, granted, now 11,841,470, previously published as PCT/US2020/012707, filed on Jan. 8, 2020.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/957,991, filed on Jan. 7, 2020.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/789,559, filed on Jan. 8, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2024/0118439 A1, Apr. 11, 2024
Int. Cl. G01T 1/29 (2006.01); G01T 1/164 (2006.01); G01T 1/20 (2006.01)
CPC G01T 1/2985 (2013.01) [G01T 1/1644 (2013.01); G01T 1/2002 (2013.01)] 18 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A device for detecting sub-atomic particles, the device comprising:
a first pair of adjacent scintillators;
at least one detector comprising at least two pixels provided on a first end of the first pair of adjacent scintillators;
a pair of corner scintillators; and
a prismatoid provided on a second end of the first pair of adjacent scintillators, wherein the at least two pixels of the at least one detector are coupled to the prismatoid via the first pair of adjacent scintillators,
wherein the first pair of adjacent scintillators, the prismatoid, and the at least one detector are symmetrically arranged,
wherein a first detector of the at least one detector abuts a second detector of the at least one detector, to extend an area for performing a positron emission tomography (PET), and
wherein, in the pair of corner scintillators, a first scintillator is disposed to overlap a horizontally flat portion of a second scintillator and to face perpendicularly to a prismatoid portion of the second scintillator.