Monte Carlo study on the imaging performance of powder Lu 2SiO5: Ce phosphor screens under x-ray excitation: Comparison with Gd2O2S:Tb screens

Medical Physics

Volumn 34, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 1724-1733

  Liaparinos, Panagiotis F ^a   Kandarakis, Ioannis S ^b   Cavouras, Dionisis A ^b   Delis, Harry B ^a   Panayiotakis, George S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WEST ATTICA   (Greece)

Author keywords

LSO; Monte Carlo; Phosphor screens; Radiation detectors

Indexed keywords

ANGULAR DISTRIBUTION; ANISOTROPY; CODES (SYMBOLS); IMAGE RESOLUTION; LIGHT; LIGHT EXTINCTION; LIGHT SCATTERING; LUMINESCENCE; MAMMOGRAPHY; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PHOSPHORS; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; QUANTUM EFFICIENCY; RADIATION DETECTORS; RARE EARTHS; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; X RAY ABSORPTION; X RAY RADIOGRAPHY; X RAY SCREENS;

DETECTIVE QUANTUM EFFICIENCY; IMAGING CHARACTERISTICS; LUMINESCENCE EFFICIENCIES; OPTICAL EXTINCTION COEFFICIENTS; PHOSPHOR SCREENS; QUANTUM DETECTION EFFICIENCY; SCATTERING ANISOTROPY; SCINTILLATING PROPERTIES;

X RAY DETECTORS;

CERIUM; CERIUM DOPED LUTETIUM ORTHOSILICATE; GADOLINIUM; LANTHANIDE; LUTETIUM; PHOSPHORUS DERIVATIVE; SILICATE; SULFUR DERIVATIVE; TERBIUM; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; BRIGHTNESS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; IMAGE QUALITY; LIGHT; LIGHT SCATTERING; LUMINESCENCE; MAMMOGRAPHY; MODULATION TRANSFER FUNCTION; MONTE CARLO METHOD; NOISE; OPTICAL RESOLUTION; PERFORMANCE; PHOTON; PHYSICAL PARAMETERS; POWDER; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTUM MECHANICS; RADIATION ABSORPTION; RADIATION ATTENUATION; RADIATION ENERGY; RADIATION SCATTERING; RADIODIAGNOSIS; RADIOGRAPHY; SCINTIGRAPHY; SCINTILLATION; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; THEORETICAL MODEL; X RAY;

EID: 34247619910     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.2724065     Document Type: Article

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