Investigation of the Properties of new Scintillator LYSO and Recent LSO Scintillators for Phoswich PET Detectors

IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference

Volumn 2, Issue , 2002, Pages 655-660

  Pepin, Catherine Michelle ^a   Perrot, Anne Laure ^a   Bérard, Philippe ^a   Pépin, Claude ^a   Houde, Daniel ^a   Lecomte, Roger ^a   Melcher, Charles L ^b   Dautet, Henri ^c  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE SHERBROOKE   (Canada)

^b CTI Inc   (United States)

^c PerkinElmer Optoelectronics Canada   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CERIUM; DOPING (ADDITIVES); LUMINESCENCE; LUTETIUM COMPOUNDS;

MULTI-CRYSTAL ASSEMBLIES;

PHOSPHORS;

EID: 0142210210     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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