Phosphor material evaluation for use in medical imaging radiation detectors by the noise-equivalent-quanta (NEQ) method

Applied Physics B: Lasers and Optics

Volumn 68, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 1121-1124

  Kandarakis, I ^a   Cavouras, D ^a,c   Nomicos, C D ^a   Panayiotakis, G S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WEST ATTICA   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

^c NONE   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EUROPIUM; IMAGING SYSTEMS; LIGHT EMISSION; LIGHT MODULATION; MEDICAL IMAGING; RADIATION DETECTORS; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; TERBIUM; TRANSFER FUNCTIONS; YTTRIUM;

ACTIVATOR ION; ATOMIC NUMBER; LIGHT ENERGY FLUX; MODULATION TRANSFER FUNCTION; NOISE EQUIVALENT QUANTA METHOD; OPTICAL DETECTORS;

PHOSPHORS;

EID: 0032629088     PISSN: 09462171     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s003400050754     Document Type: Article

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