Lu2Sio5: Ce optical ceramic scintillator for PET

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 56, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 887-891

  Wang, Yimin ^a   Van Loef, Edgar ^a   Rhodes, William H ^b   Glodo, Jarek ^a   Brecher, Charles ^a   Nguyen, Long ^c   Lempicki, Alex ^a   Baldoni, Gary ^a   Higgins, William M ^a   Shah, Kanai S ^a  

^a RADIATION MONITORING DEVICES INC   (United States)

^b ALEM Associates   (United States)

^c Nanocerox Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Ceramic; Lu2Sio5 : (LSO); Scintillator; Transparent

Indexed keywords

CERAMIC; ENERGY RESOLUTIONS; EXCITATION SOURCES; GAMMA-RAY SPECTROSCOPY; IMAGING APPLICATIONS; LIGHT OUTPUT; LU2SIO5 : (LSO); OPTICAL CERAMICS; POLYCRYSTALLINE; SCINTILLATION DECAY; SCINTILLATION PROPERTIES; SCINTILLATOR; SEM; SINGLE-CRYSTALLINE; SINTERING TEMPERATURES; TRANSPARENT; XRD;

CERIUM; CERIUM COMPOUNDS; CESIUM; GAMMA RAYS; GRAIN BOUNDARIES; HOT ISOSTATIC PRESSING; LUMINESCENCE; LUTETIUM; MEDICAL IMAGING; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; SCINTILLATION; SCINTILLATION COUNTERS; SINTERING; SODIUM;

CERAMIC MATERIALS;

EID: 67649173301     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNS.2009.2013342     Document Type: Article

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