A New X-Ray Scintillator for Digital Radiography

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 50, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 297-300

  Nagarkar, V V ^a   Tipnis, S V ^a   Miller, S R ^a   Lempicki, A ^b   Brecher, C ^b   Szupryczynski, P ^c   Lingertat, H ^d  

^a RADIATION MONITORING DEVICES INC   (United States)

^b ALEM Associates   (United States)

^c NICOLAUS COPERNICUS UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

^d BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Digital radiography; scintillators

Indexed keywords

CAMERAS; CERAMIC MATERIALS; CHARGE COUPLED DEVICES; DENSITY (SPECIFIC GRAVITY); EUROPIUM; LIGHT; LUTETIUM COMPOUNDS; TRANSPARENCY; X RAY RADIOGRAPHY; X RAYS;

DIGITAL RADIOGRAPHY; THERMOELECTRICALLY COOLED CCD CAMERA; X RAY SCINTILLATOR;

PHOSPHORS;

EID: 0038720375     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: 15581578     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNS.2003.812432     Document Type: Article

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