More on the scintillation response of Nal(Tl)

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 45, Issue 3 PART 4, 1998, Pages 1750-1756

  Valentine, J D ^a,b   Rooney, B D ^a   Dorenbos, P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI   (United States)

^b DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GAMMA RAYS; SCINTILLATION; SCINTILLATION COUNTERS; SODIUM COMPOUNDS; X RAYS;

SCINTILLATION RESPONSE; SODIUM IODINE;

PHOSPHORS;

EID: 0032097436     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/23.685299     Document Type: Article

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