US 7,573,056 B2
Scintillator panel
Yasushi Nagata, Kodaira (Japan); and Takehiko Shoji, Hachioji (Japan)
Assigned to Konica Minolta Medical & Graphic, Inc., Tokyo (Japan)
Filed on Jan. 24, 2008, as Appl. No. 12/19,429.
Claims priority of application No. 2007-017626 (JP), filed on Jan. 29, 2007.
Prior Publication US 2008/0179533 A1, Jul. 31, 2008
Int. Cl. G01T 1/20 (2006.01)
U.S. Cl. 250—580  [250/370.11] 5 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A radiation detector comprising a scintillator panel and a flat light receiving element pressed against the scintillator panel,
wherein the scintillator panel further comprises:
a scintillator sheet comprising a substrate having thereon a phosphor layer produced with a vacuum evaporation method; and
a protective film covering the scintillator panel, wherein
the protective film comprises a light absorbing layer which is colored so as to absorb a light emitted from the phosphor layer.