Scintillation properties of LuAG:Ce, YAG:Ce and LYSO:Ce crystals for gamma-ray detection

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 56, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 3800-3805

  Chewpraditkul, W ^a   Swiderski, L ^b   Moszynski, M ^b   Szczesniak, T ^b   Syntfeld Kazuch, A ^b   Wanarak, C ^a   Limsuwan, P ^a  

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

^b SOLTAN INSTITUTE FOR NUCLEAR STUDIES   (Poland)

Author keywords

Coincidence time resolution; Decay time constant; Energy resolution; LuAG:Ce; LYSO:CE; Non proportionality; YAG:CE

Indexed keywords

DECAY TIME CONSTANT; LYSO:CE; NONPROPORTIONALITY; TIME RESOLUTION; YAG: CE;

CERIUM; CRYSTALS; DETECTORS; GAMMA RAYS; LUMINESCENCE; SCINTILLATION;

CERIUM COMPOUNDS;

EID: 72349096132     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNS.2009.2033994     Document Type: Conference Paper

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