Luminescence emission properties of (Lu, Y)2SiO5:Ce (LYSO:Ce) and (Lu, Y)AlO3:Ce (LuYAP:Ce) single crystal scintillators under medical imaging conditions

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 55, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 785-789

  Valais, Ioannis G ^a,b   Michail, Christos M ^a   David, Stratos L ^a   Konstantinidis, Anastasios ^b   Cavouras, Dionisis A ^b   Kandarakis, Ioannis S ^b   Panayiotakis, George S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WEST ATTICA   (Greece)

Author keywords

Detector optical gain; Inorganic scintillators; Luminescence eflciency; LuYAP:Ce; Radiation detectors

Indexed keywords

IMAGING SYSTEMS; LUMINESCENCE; LUTETIUM COMPOUNDS; MAMMOGRAPHY; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; SINGLE CRYSTALS;

LUMINESCENCE EMISSION PROPERTIES; SINGLE CRYSTAL SCINTILLATORS;

PHOSPHORS;

EID: 42149169661     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNS.2008.918737     Document Type: Conference Paper

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