Suppression of host luminescence in the Pr:LuAG scintillator

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 55, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 1197-1200

  Ogino, Hiraku ^a   Kamada, Kei ^b   Yoshikawa, Akira ^c   Saito, Fumio ^c   Pejchal, Jan ^d   Mares, Jiri A ^d   Nikl, Martin ^d,e   Vedda, Anna ^e   Shimoyama, Jun Ichi ^a   Kishio, Kohji ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b FURUKAWA CO LTD   (Japan)

^c TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS   (Czech Republic)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MILANO BICOCCA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Gamma ray detectors; Garnets; Nuclear imaging; Praseodymium compounds; Radioluminescence

Indexed keywords

GALLIUM; LUMINESCENCE;

LIGHT EMISSION;

EID: 45849123918     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNS.2008.922820     Document Type: Conference Paper

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