New inorganic scintillation materials development for medical imaging

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 49 I, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 1651-1654

  Lecoq, Paul ^a   Korzhik, Mikhail ^b  

^a CERN   (Switzerland)

^b INSTITUTE FOR NUCLEAR PROBLEMS   (Belarus)

Author keywords

Crystal; Medical imaging; Rare earth; Scintillator

Indexed keywords

LUMINESCENCE; MEDICAL IMAGING; PEROVSKITE; POLYCRYSTALLINE MATERIALS; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; RARE EARTH ELEMENTS; SINGLE CRYSTALS;

INORGANIC SCINTILLATION MATERIALS;

SCINTILLATION;

EID: 0036702966     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNS.2002.801487     Document Type: Article

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