Efficiency of Lu2SiO5:Ce (LSO) powder phosphor as X-ray to light converter under mammographic imaging conditions

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

Volumn 571, Issue 1-2 SPEC. ISS., 2007, Pages 346-349

  David, S ^a   Michail, C ^a   Valais, I ^a,b   Nikolopoulos, D ^b   Liaparinos, P ^a   Kalivas, N ^c   Kalatzis, I ^b   Toutountzis, A ^b   Efthimiou, N ^b   Loudos, G ^d   Sianoudis, I ^b   Cavouras, D ^b   Dimitropoulos, N ^e   Nomicos, C D ^b   Kandarakis, I ^b   Panayiotakis, G S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WEST ATTICA   (Greece)

^c GREEK ATOMIC ENERGY COMMISSION   (Greece)

^d NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^e Euromedica medical center ^*  (Greece)

Author keywords

Inorganic scintillators; LSO:Ce; Luminescence efficiency; Radiation detectors

Indexed keywords

ENERGY ABSORPTION; LIGHT EMISSION; LUMINESCENCE; LUTETIUM COMPOUNDS; MAMMOGRAPHY; RADIATION DETECTORS; SCINTILLATION; SEDIMENTATION;

INORGANIC SCINTILLATORS; LIGHT CONVERTERS; QUANTUM DETECTION EFFICIENCY (QDE); X RAY IMAGING;

PHOSPHORS;

EID: 33846504010     PISSN: 01689002     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nima.2006.10.106     Document Type: Article

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