Scintillators with potential to supersede lanthanum bromide

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 56, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 873-880

  Cherepy, Nerine J ^a   Payne, Steve A ^a   Asztalos, Stephen J ^b   Hull, Giulia ^a   Kuntz, Joshua D ^a   Niedermayr, Thomas ^c   Pimputkar, Siddha ^d   Roberts, Jeffery J ^a   Sanner, Robert D ^a   Tillotson, Thomas M ^a   Van Loef, Edgar ^e   Wilson, Cody M ^f   Shah, Kanai S ^e   Roy, Utpal N ^g   Hawrami, Rastgo ^h   Burger, Arnold ^a   Boatner, Lynn A ^a   Choong, Woon Seng ^a   Moses, William W ^a  

^a LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b XIA LLC   (United States)

^c MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e RADIATION MONITORING DEVICES INC   (United States)

^f Passport Systems   (United States)

^g FISK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^h ICx Radiation Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Ceramic scintillators; Gamma ray spectrometers; Scintillators; Strontium iodide

Indexed keywords

ALKALINE EARTH HALIDES; BRIDGMAN; CERAMIC SCINTILLATORS; DECAY TIME; DOPED CERAMICS; ENERGY DEPENDENT; ENERGY RESOLUTIONS; EUROPIUM-DOPED; GAMMA-RAY SPECTROSCOPY; HIGH RESOLUTION; LANTHANUM BROMIDE; LIGHT YIELD; NONPROPORTIONALITY; PHASE INSTABILITY; SCINTILLATION LIGHT YIELD; SCINTILLATORS; TRANSPARENT CERAMIC;

ALKALINE EARTH METAL COMPOUNDS; CERAMIC MATERIALS; CERIUM; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES; EUROPIUM; GADOLINIUM; GAMMA RAY SPECTROMETERS; GARNETS; IONIZATION; LUMINESCENCE; OPTICAL DESIGN; PHOSPHORS; SCINTILLATION; SCINTILLATION COUNTERS; SILICATE MINERALS; SINGLE CRYSTALS; SPECTROMETERS; SPECTROMETRY; STARS; STRONTIUM; TERBIUM; X RAY CAMERAS;

GAMMA RAYS;

EID: 67649202447     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNS.2009.2020165     Document Type: Article

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