Applied Scintillation Technologies (AST) has bought an optical inspection microscope and a camera system for X-ray inspection.
These will improve its measurement and quality assurance equipment at its caesium iodide (CsI) factory.
Thallium-doped CsI has become a popular material for scintillator-based digital X-ray detectors in dental and medical applications.
AST uses optimised co-evaporation coating technologies for the deposition of caesium iodide onto fibre optic faceplate (FOP) substrates.
However, the product requires a high level of inspection to an exact imaging specification.
Optical and X-ray imaging tools help achieve this.
A Hawk 300 non-contact measuring microscope from Vision Engineering has improved optical inspection.
It checks the dimensions of the structure and inspects for physical defects in the coating layer.
The Hawk 300 offers video and optical measurement.
It can be used for higher volume batch video inspection or measurement, or high accuracy optical measurements on individual components.
A new camera system has been installed at the existing semi-automated inspection facility to improve X-ray inspection.
