Investigation of luminescence properties of Lu2SiO 5:Ce (LSO) powder scintillator in the X-ray radiography energy range

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 55, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 3684-3691

  David, Stratos L ^a   Michail, Christos M ^a   Valais, Ioannis G ^b   Toutountzis, Adrianos E ^a   Liaparinos, Panagiotis F ^a   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

Inorganic scintillators; LSO:Ce; Luminescence efficiency; Powder phosphors

Indexed keywords

CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; EMISSION SPECTROSCOPY; ENERGY ABSORPTION; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; LIGHT; MEDICAL IMAGING; PHOSPHORS; QUANTUM EFFICIENCY; SCINTILLATION; SCINTILLATION COUNTERS; SINGLE CRYSTALS; THICKNESS MEASUREMENT; X RAY TUBES;

ENERGY ABSORPTION EFFICIENCY; FLUORESCENCE REABSORPTION; INORGANIC SCINTILLATOR; LIGHT EMISSION EFFICIENCY; LIGHT-ATTENUATION COEFFICIENTS; LUMINESCENCE EFFICIENCIES; POWDER PHOSPHORS; QUANTUM DETECTION EFFICIENCY;

X RAY RADIOGRAPHY;

EID: 58849105877     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNS.2008.2006901     Document Type: Conference Paper

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