Properties of LYSO and recent LSO scintillators for phoswich PET detectors

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 51, Issue 3 II, 2004, Pages 789-795

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

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE SHERBROOKE   (Canada)

^b CERN   (Switzerland)

^c CTI Inc   (United States)

^d PerkinElmer Optoelectronics Canada   (Canada)

Author keywords

Intrinsic resolution; LSO; LYSO; Scintillation detector; Scintillation processes

Indexed keywords

CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; GAMMA RAYS; LUMINESCENCE; PHOSPHORS; PHOTOMULTIPLIERS; POISSON RATIO; SPECTROSCOPIC ANALYSIS;

INTRINSIC RESOLUTION; LSO; LYSO; SCINTILLATION DETECTOR;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

EID: 3342876838     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNS.2004.829781     Document Type: Article

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