Evaluation of the light emission efficiency of LYSO:Ce scintillator under X-ray excitation for possible applications in medical imaging

Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research, Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment

Volumn 569, Issue 2 SPEC. ISS., 2006, Pages 201-204

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WEST ATTICA   (Greece)

^c Euromedica Medical Center   (Greece)

Author keywords

Inorganic scintillators; Luminescence efficiency; LYSO:Ce; Matching factor; Radiation detectors

Indexed keywords

CERIUM; LIGHT EMISSION; LUMINESCENCE; PHOSPHORS; PHOTOCATHODES; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; RADIATION DETECTORS; SCINTILLATION COUNTERS;

ATOMIC NUMBER; INORGANIC SCINTILLATORS; LUMINESCENCE EFFICIENCY; LUMINESCENCE EMISSION; MATCHING FACTOR; X RAY TUBE VOLTAGE;

MEDICAL IMAGING;

EID: 33751426848     PISSN: 01689002     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nima.2006.08.018     Document Type: Article

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