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中性子イメージング用シンチレータの空間分解能に及ぼす膜厚の影響

Influence of thickness of neutron imaging scintillator on spatial resolution

安田 良; 片桐 政樹; 飯倉 寛  ; 杉本 勝美*; 竹中 信幸*; 松林 政仁  

Yasuda, Ryo; Katagiri, Masaki; Iikura, Hiroshi; Sugimoto, Katsumi*; Takenaka, Nobuyuki*; Matsubayashi, Masahito

中性子ラジオグラフィの撮影画像の空間分解能の向上を図るうえで、空間分解能に及ぼす膜厚の影響に関する知見は極めて重要である。本稿では、$$^{6}$$Li及び$$^{10}$$Bをそれぞれ捕獲材とした薄膜型のLiF-ZnS:Ag(LiF型)及びB$$_{2}$$O$$_{3}$$-ZnS:Ag(B$$_{2}$$O$$_{3}$$型)シンチレータの空間分解能を評価し、その空間分解能に及ぼす膜厚の影響について調べた。Edge Spread Function法により、これらの空間分解能を評価した結果、従来品であるNRコンバータが約150$$mu$$mであるのに対し、B$$_{2}$$O$$_{3}$$型及びLiF型シンチレータは、それぞれ50$$mu$$m以下の良好な分解能が得られ、薄型化により、空間分解能が向上することを確認した。

For obtaining high resolution neutron images, it is important to improve position resolution of scintillators, which converts neutron into visible light. It is considered that thickness of scintillator film is one of significant factors for determining the position resolution. Using edge spread function method, we evaluated spatial resolution of two types of scintillator with a thinned film. One was made from LiF-ZnS:Ag (LiF-type) with 30 um in thickness, the other was B$$_{2}$$O$$_{3}$$-ZnS:Ag(B$$_{2}$$O$$_{3}$$-type) with 40 um in thickness. The resolution of conventional scintillator "NE426" above 100 um in thickness was also evaluated for comparing to that of LiF-type and B$$_{2}$$O$$_{3}$$-type. Spatial resolution of NE426 was measured as 150 um, and that of LiF-type and B$$_{2}$$O$$_{3}$$-type were below 50 um. Those results show that thinning a scintillator film is effective to improve the position resolution of scintillator.

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