Development of New Mixed LuYAP:Ce crystals for application in a small animal PET scanner with DOI capability

IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference

Volumn 2, Issue , 2002, Pages 676-681

  Kuntner, Claudia ^a   Auffray, Etiennette ^a   Dujardin, Christophe ^b   Lecoq, Paul ^a   Pedrini, Christian ^b   Schneegans, Marc ^c  

^a CERN   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITÉ LYON 1   (France)

^c LABORATOIRE DE PHYSIQUE DES PARTICULES   (France)

Author keywords

Depth of Interaction; Energy Resolution; Light yield; LuYAP crystal; Scintillators

Indexed keywords

CRYSTALS; LUTETIUM COMPOUNDS; PHOSPHORS; PHOTONS;

ENERGY RESOLUTION;

POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 0142148143     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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