Tungsten alloy collimator is also known as tungsten heavy alloy collimator or high-density tungsten alloy collimator. Collimator is a key component of gamma camera - the most basic imaging equipment in nuclear medicine, and affects the imaging quality. So, it is very important to choose the raw material of collimator. Tungsten alloy has good absorption and shielding performance to 60Co, 137Cs and other strong gamma ray sources, and therefore, it is regarded as the best shielding material for collimators. And tungsten alloy collimator can prevent γ-ray omission from causing permanent harm to medical workers, patients and their family members.

As a medical radiation shielding material, tungsten alloy shield may be a tungsten alloy collimator, a tungsten alloy isotope container, a tungsten alloy syringe shield, a tungsten alloy shield door, and the like. They are all high-density tungsten alloy parts. You know, the higher the density, the better the radiation shielding performance.

Tungsten heavy alloy collimator, an important part of detector of SPECT system, is a collimator made of high density tungsten-based alloy with composition of W-Ni-Fe, W-Ni-Cu or W-Ni-Cu-Fe. There are a certain number of holes arranged on the collimator. According to the form of the drilled hole, the tungsten heavy alloy collimator is divided into tungsten alloy parallel-hole collimator, tungsten alloy focusing collimator, tungsten alloy converging collimator, and tungsten alloy pinhole collimator.

Lead shield is a thing of past. Tungsten alloy X-ray shield, a newly developed poison-free shielding partition, is the future in hospitals or dental clinics, which can fully protect the medical workers and patients from different radiation resources such as X-rays. It has been reported that tungsten alloy X-ray shield is safe as it is non-toxic, fire-resistant and anti-corrosion with premium stability. Also, it features excellent sound insulation properties. And it can create an excellent and robust surface.

Compared with lead, tungsten alloy has higher density and better radiation shielding performance, so it is often used as a radiation protective material in medical electron linear accelerator. In addition, taking the factors of environmental protection, tungsten alloy shields are more and more popular and are gradually replacing lead shields in the field of radiation shielding.

It has been reported that the linear accelerator can emit high energy X-rays or electrons to conform to a tumor's shape and destroy cancer cells while sparing surrounding normal tissue. So, tungsten alloy, as a radiation shielding material, is often used to medical linear accelerators to shield the high-energy X-rays generated by the accelerator during clinical radiotherapy treatment.

Tungsten alloy shielding is an advanced radiation protective material with better performance than the traditional lead shielding, so it is promising in applications in radiotherapy treatment room. It has been reported that tungsten alloy is an environmentally friendly material, which is non-toxic and non-polluting. While lead is a toxic heavy metal that will do harm human body and pollute the environment. In addition, tungsten alloy has higher strength and better processing performance than lead.

Tungsten alloy shielding door has many unique excellent properties, such as high density, high strength, good radiation absorption performance, corrosion resistance, easy cutting processing, and environmental protection, etc., so it is suitable for applying to medical electron linear accelerator room to shield the X-rays and neutron rays, which are generated when the accelerator is working.

Tungsten alloy radiation shield is more suitable for shielding X-rays and neutrons generated from the electron linear accelerator than lead radiation shield as tungsten alloy has high density of 16.5-18.75 g/cm3, which is 50% higher than lead. Also, tungsten alloy also has a strong ability to absorb rays, which is 30-40% higher than lead. In addition, tungsten alloy has environmental protection characteristics.

Tungsten alloy shielding part is more suitable for application of medical linear accelerator than lead shielding part to shield X-rays and neutron rays generated during the operation of the accelerator. That is because tungsten alloy is a new type of radiation shielding material with high density and high ray shielding performance. The density of tungsten alloy is 1.5 times that of lead. Also, tungsten alloy is environmentally friendly and pollution-free. While lead does harms to human body and pollutes the environment as it is toxic.