Scintillation properties of praseodymium doped LuAG scintillator compared to cerium doped LuAG, LSO and LaBr3

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 56, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 2499-2505

  Swiderski, Lukasz ^a   Moszyński, Marek ^a   Nassalski, Antoni ^a   Syntfeld Kazuch, Agnieszka ^a   Szczȩśniak, Tomasz ^a   Kamada, Kei ^b   Tsutsumi, K ^b   Usuki, Yoshiyuki ^b   Yanagida, Takayuki ^c   Yoshikawa, Akira ^c   Chewpraditkul, Weerapong ^d   Pomorski, Marcin ^e  

^a SOLTAN INSTITUTE FOR NUCLEAR STUDIES   (Poland)

^b FURUKAWA CO LTD   (Japan)

^c TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d KING MONGKUT'S UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY THONBURI   (Thailand)

^e UNIVERSITY OF WARSAW   (Poland)

Author keywords

Decay time constant; Energy resolution; LSO; LuAG; Non proportionality; Time resolution

Indexed keywords

DECAY TIME CONSTANT; ENERGY RESOLUTION; LSO; LUAG; NON-PROPORTIONALITY; TIME RESOLUTION;

ALUMINA; CERIUM COMPOUNDS; GARNETS; LIGHT TRANSMISSION; LUMINESCENCE; LUTETIUM; PRASEODYMIUM; SCINTILLATION; SILICATE MINERALS;

CERIUM;

EID: 69549092038     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNS.2009.2025040     Document Type: Conference Paper

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