High efficiency of lutetium silicate scintillators, Ce-doped LPS, and LYSO crystals

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 51, Issue 3 III, 2004, Pages 1084-1087

  Pidol, Ludivine ^a,b   Kahn Harari, Andrée ^a   Viana, Bruno ^a   Virey, Eric ^b   Ferrand, Bernard ^c   Dorenbos, Pieter ^d   De Haas, Johan T M ^d   Van Eijk, Carel W E ^d  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b SAINT GOBAIN RECHERCHE   (France)

^c CEA LETI   (France)

^d DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

distribution; Lu2(1 x) y2xsio5 (lyso); Lutecium silicates; Lutetium pyrosilicate (LPS); Scintillation crystals

Indexed keywords

CERIUM COMPOUNDS; CRYSTALLINE MATERIALS; DOPING (ADDITIVES); LUMINESCENCE; LUTETIUM COMPOUNDS; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; SILICATES;

Γ DISTRIBUTION; LU2(1-X)Y2XSIO5 (LYSO); LUTECIUM SILICATES; LUTENIUM PYROSILICATES (LPS); SCINTILLATION CRYSTALS;

PHOSPHORS;

EID: 3342967059     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNS.2004.829542     Document Type: Conference Paper

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