Recent advances in columnar CsI(TI) scintillator screens

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5923, Issue , 2005, Pages 1-10

  Miller, Stuart R ^a   Gaysinskiy, Valeriy ^a   Shestakova, Irina ^a   Nagarkar, Vivek V ^a  

^a RADIATION MONITORING DEVICES INC   (United States)

Author keywords

Computed tomography; CsI(Tl) scintillator; Medical imaging; Microtomography; Nuclear medicine; X ray

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; MEDICAL IMAGING; NUCLEAR MEDICINE; SCINTILLATION COUNTERS; X RAY ANALYSIS;

CSI(T1) SCINTILLATOR; X-RAY;

PHOSPHORS;

EID: 31844438728     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.625927     Document Type: Conference Paper

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