I am trying to find out where I can get the fluorescent material (just a small
flat piece) I can glue to the tip of a pin for aligning the X-ray beam of our
home source. Does anyone know?
Thanks in advance!
Ronnie
Hi Ronnie,
We use YAG discs (Yttrium Aluminum Garnet). We buy small 10mm x 100um or 500um
thick discs, break them into shards, glue them to various alignment jigs and
they provide a very effective X-ray visualization tool.
Our latest supplier is Star Tech Instruments
We've used CdWO4 crystals for years. They are highly radiation resistant and
colorless and give VERY bright fluorescence. Saint-Gobain has them in various
forms.
In principle you can mix your own CdWO4 from CdNO3 and NaWO4 ... under proper
conditions you let the solution digest to form
