Energy resolution of calcium co-doped LSO:Ce scintillators

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 56, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 2972-2978

  Syntfeld Kazuch, Agnieszka ^a   Moszyński, Marek ^a   Świderski, Łukasz ^a   Szczȩśniak, Tomasz ^a   Nassalski, Antoni ^a   Melcher, Charles L ^b   Spurrier, Merry A ^c   Goliszek, Bartosz ^d   Kamiński, PrzemysŁaw ^a   Nowaczyk, Mateusz ^d  

^a SOLTAN INSTITUTE FOR NUCLEAR STUDIES   (Poland)

^b University of Tennessee   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WARSAW   (Poland)

Author keywords

Afterglow; Energy resolution; Lu2SiO 5; Lutetium oxyorthosilicate; Non proportionality

Indexed keywords

AFTERGLOW; ENERGY RESOLUTION; LU2SIO 5; LUTETIUM OXYORTHOSILICATE; NON-PROPORTIONALITY;

CALCIUM ALLOYS; CERIUM; CERIUM COMPOUNDS; CRYSTALS; DOPING (ADDITIVES); LUMINESCENCE; LUTETIUM; SCINTILLATION; SCINTILLATION COUNTERS; SILICON COMPOUNDS;

CALCIUM;

EID: 70350173274     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNS.2009.2028235     Document Type: Article

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