Patent ID: 7514686

Claim:
A manufacturing method of a radiation detecting apparatus including a panel, a scintillator layer of a material containing as a main ingredient alkali halide and of a columnar crystal structure formed on the panel to convert radiation into light, and a scintillator protection layer covering the scintillator layer to adhere closely to the scintillator protection layer, said method comprising steps of: preparing the panel, on which the scintillator layer is to be formed; providing a melted hot-melt resin to cover the scintillator layer directly for forming the scintillator protection layer, wherein the hot-melt resin is formed of a material which does not dissolve the scintillator layer even though the scintillator protection layer contacts the scintillator layer; and pressing by means of a pressing unit the hot-melt resin to reduce a thickness of the hot-melt resin in a region in which the hot-melt resin contacts the panel at a periphery of the scintillator layer, with a lesser to no reduction in the thickness of the hot-melt resin in a region in which the hot-melt resin contacts the scintillator layer.