Light emission efficiency of Gd2O2S:Eu (GOS:Eu) powder screens under X-ray mammography conditions

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 55, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 3703-3709

  Michail, Christos M ^a   Valais, Ioannis G ^b   Toutountzis, Adrianos E ^a   Kalyvas, Nektarios E ^b   Fountos, George P ^b   David, Stratos L ^a   Kandarakis, Ioannis S ^b   Panayiotakis, George S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WEST ATTICA   (Greece)

Author keywords

Gd2O2S:Eu; Luminescence efficiency; Matching factor powder phosphors

Indexed keywords

CHARGE COUPLED DEVICES; CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; DIAGNOSTIC RADIOGRAPHY; ELECTRON TUBES; EMISSION SPECTROSCOPY; ENERGY ABSORPTION; EUROPIUM; FIELD EMISSION CATHODES; INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; LIGHT; LIGHT EMISSION; LUMINESCENCE; MEDICAL IMAGING; OPTOELECTRONIC DEVICES; PHOSPHORS; PHOTODETECTORS; PHOTONS; POWDERS; SCINTILLATION; SCINTILLATION COUNTERS; SIGNAL PROCESSING; THICKNESS MEASUREMENT; X RAY TUBES; X RAYS;

COATING THICKNESS; COUPLED DEVICES; DIGITAL DETECTORS; EMISSION SPECTRUMS; ENERGY ABSORPTION EFFICIENCIES; GD2O2S:EU; IMAGING CONDITIONS; LIGHT EMISSION EFFICIENCIES; LUMINESCENCE EFFICIENCY; MATCHING FACTOR POWDER PHOSPHORS; OPTICAL EMISSION SPECTRUM; OPTICAL PHOTONS; PEAK EMISSIONS; PHOSPHOR SCREENS; POWDER SCINTILLATORS; WAVELENGTH RANGES; X-RAY DETECTIONS; X-RAY EXCITATIONS; X-RAY IMAGING; X-RAY MAMMOGRAPHIES; X-RAY TUBE VOLTAGES;

X RAY SCREENS;

EID: 58849130189     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNS.2008.2007562     Document Type: Conference Paper

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