A systematic study of the performance of the CsI:Tl single-crystal scintillator under X-ray excitation

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

Volumn 571, Issue 1-2 SPEC. ISS., 2007, Pages 343-345

  Valais, Ioannis ^a,b   Nikolopoulos, Dimitrios ^b   Kalivas, Nektarios ^c   Gaitanis, Anastasios ^a,b   Loudos, Georgios ^d   Sianoudis, Ioannis ^b   Giokaris, Nikolaos ^d   Cavouras, Dionisis ^b   Dimitropoulos, Nikolaos ^e   Nomicos, Constantinos D ^b   Kandarakis, Ioannis ^b   Panayiotakis, Georgios S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WEST ATTICA   (Greece)

^c GREEK ATOMIC ENERGY COMMISSION   (Greece)

^d Institute of Accelerating Systems and Applications   (Greece)

^e Euromedica Medical Center   (Greece)

Author keywords

CsI:Tl; Inorganic scintillators; Luminescence efficiency; Matching factor; Radiation detectors

Indexed keywords

CESIUM COMPOUNDS; DIAGNOSTIC RADIOGRAPHY; LIGHT EMISSION; LUMINESCENCE; RADIATION DETECTORS; SINGLE CRYSTALS; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; TOMOGRAPHY; VOLTAGE MEASUREMENT;

INORGANIC SCINTILLATORS; MATCHING FACTORS; OPTICAL DETECTORS; X RAY EXCITATION;

PHOSPHORS;

EID: 33846482696     PISSN: 01689002     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nima.2006.10.096     Document Type: Article

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