Imaging system employing x-ray induced scintillation in a crystal spatial modulator

Abstract From the Canadian patent

An X-ray imaging system in which X-radiation containing an image is input as the modulating source to a spatial light modulator, which modulates a reflected reading beam such as collimated light to, detect the image, or alternatively in which the electrical state of the modulator is sensed directly. An X-ray image detector includes a window layer for transmitting X-radiation; an electro-optically active layer located so as to receive X-radiation through said window layer, the active layer being adapted for having an electric field pattern therein which is locally variable as a function of the X-radiation received thereby containing an electric field pattern which is representative of such …