SBIR/STTR Research Award
IMPROVEMENT OF X-RAY IMAGING STORAGE BY NANOFABRICATION
Award amount
$88,802Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IAward year
2002Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Health and Human Services
- Branch
- National Institutes of Health
- Recipient company
- Nomadics, Inc.
- Proposal award date
- Not reported
- Contract end date
- Not reported
- UEI
- EK87N63LP4Y4
- Solicitation number
- Not reported
- Topic code
- Not reported
Research abstract
Nomadics proposes to improve the luminescence efficiency, sensitivity, and resolution of X-ray storage imaging plates of BaFBr:Eu2+ systems via quantum size confinement and nano-fabrication. The working principle of X-ray storage imaging is photostimulated luminescence (PSL). In this process, trapped charges are released by photons and produce luminescence through recombination. The BaFBr:Eu2+ imaging plate system suffers from low resolution due to the scattering of both the reading laser light and the emission light. The light scattering is due to the phosphor grain size, shape, and boundary as well as surface roughness. The use of nanoparticles will reduce the light scattering and improve image quality and resolution. In addition to medical imaging applications, this technology will be useful in nondestructive testing, security, and other fields that use X-ray systems.
Technology keywords
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Other awards by this recipient
Verified by the same UEI. These are other public SBIR/STTR award pages, not a merged company record.
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