MULTI-ELEMENT X-RAY DETECTOR, ITS RARE-EARTH LUMINESCENT MATERIALS, PRODUCTION OF MULTI-ELEMENT SCINTILLATOR AND DETECTOR IN GENERAL

The invention relates to X-ray technology and medical diagnostics and can be used for carrying out gamma flaw detection on various articles and piping systems. The technical result is an increase in the contrast of the integrated image that is produced. A multi-element X-ray radiation detector consists of a flat multi-element scintillator in the form of a discrete set of hetero-phase luminescent elements which are arranged in the cells of a mesh made from a metal which absorbs X-ray radiation and reflects light, the increment size of which mesh corresponds to the increment size of the photo receiver matrix. The metallic mesh that forms the multi-element luminescent scintillator is made from elements having an atomic number of from N = 26 (iron) to N = 74 (tungsten), has silver-plated coils, and separates the scintillator elements optically from one another. The coils of the mesh have a diameter of from 0.06 mm to 0.16 mm, and the area of the effective cross section of the mesh is from 45% to 82%. The scintillator consists of an X-ray luminophore based on a multi-ligand oxysulphide of gadolinium-lutetium-europium with the addition of bismuth and rhenium, and also fluorine, chlorine, bromine and iodine. The process of synthesis is carried out in two stages. In the first stage, oxyhalides of the elements making up a cationic subgroup are formed by reacting the initial coprecipitated oxides of the rare earth elements, Bi and Re with ammonium halides. The resulting product is then subjected to repeated thermal treatment in an alkali chalcogenide melt.