Additive manufacturing of inorganic scintillator-based particle detectors

TL;DR

This paper presents the development of a new inorganic scintillator filament for 3D printing, enabling rapid fabrication of radiation detectors for various applications, including medical imaging and high-energy physics.

Contribution

It introduces a novel inorganic scintillation filament and methods for its production and implementation in 3D printing technologies, advancing detector prototyping.

Findings

Successful development of inorganic scintillator filament

Effective 3D printing of scintillator-based detectors

Impact of printing modes on scintillation properties

Abstract

Inorganic scintillators are widely used for scientific, industrial and medical applications. The development of 3D printing with inorganic scintillators would allow fast creation of detector prototypes for registration of ionizing radiation, such as alpha and beta, gamma particles in thin layers of active material and soft X-ray radiation. This article reports on the technical work and scientific achievements that aimed at developing a new inorganic scintillation filament to be used for the 3D printing of composite scintillator materials: study and definition of the scintillator composition; development of the methods for the inorganic scintillator filament production and further implementation in the available 3D printing technologies; study of impact of the different 3D printing modes on the material scintillation characteristics. Also, 3D printed scintillators can be used for creation of combined detectors for high-energy physics.