Light emission efficiency and imaging properties of YAP:Ce granular phosphor screens

Applied Physics A: Materials Science and Processing

Volumn 89, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 443-449

  Kalivas, N ^a   Valais, I ^b,c   Nikolopoulos, D ^b   Konstantinidis, A ^b   Gaitanis, A ^b,d   Cavouras, D ^b   Nomicos, C D ^b   Panayiotakis, G ^c   Kandarakis, I ^b  

^a GREEK ATOMIC ENERGY COMMISSION   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WEST ATTICA   (Greece)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

^d Academy of Athens Biomedical Research Foundation   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FUSED SILICA; LIGHT EMISSION; MEDICAL IMAGING; PHOTODETECTORS; QUANTUM EFFICIENCY; SINGLE CRYSTALS;

ABSOLUTE LUMINESCENCE EFFICIENCY; IMAGE DETECTORS; MEDICAL X-RAY PROJECTION IMAGING; RADIOGRAPHIC FILM;

PHOSPHORS;

EID: 34548265176     PISSN: 09478396     EISSN: 14320630     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00339-007-4173-8     Document Type: Article

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