Luminescence efficiency of Gd2SiO5:Ce scintillator under X-ray excitation

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 52, Issue 5 III, 2005, Pages 1830-1835

  Valais, Ioannis G ^a,b   Kandarakis, Ioannis S ^b   Nikolopoulos, Dimitris N ^b   Sianoudis, Ioannis A ^b   Dimitropoulos, Nikolaos ^c   Cavouras, Dionisis A ^b   Nomicos, Constantinos D ^b   Panayiotakis, George S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WEST ATTICA   (Greece)

^c Metropolitan Medical Center   (Greece)

Author keywords

Inorganic scintillators; Luminescence efficiency; Matching factor; Radiation detectors

Indexed keywords

CERIUM COMPOUNDS; CHARGE COUPLED DEVICES; IRRADIATION; LUMINESCENCE; MEDICAL IMAGING; PHOSPHORS; PHOTODIODES; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; RADIATION DETECTORS;

INORGANIC SCINTILLATORS; LUMINESCENCE EFFICIENCY; MATCHING FACTOR;

GADOLINIUM COMPOUNDS;

EID: 29144530239     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNS.2005.856895     Document Type: Article

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