The role of activator concentration and precipitate formation on optical and dosimetric properties of KCl:Eu2+ storage phosphor detectors

Medical Physics

Volumn 40, Issue 9, 2013, Pages

  Hansel, Rachael A ^a   Xiao, Zhiyan ^a   Hu, Yanle ^a   Green, Olga ^a   Yang, Deshan ^a   Harold Li, H ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

radiation detector; radiation hardness; storage phosphor

Indexed keywords

CHLORINE COMPOUNDS; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; EMISSION SPECTROSCOPY; EUROPIUM; HARDNESS; IONS; LUMINESCENCE; PHOSPHORS; POTASH; POTASSIUM CHLORIDE; RADIATION DETECTORS; REUSABILITY; STORAGE (MATERIALS);

ACTIVATOR CONCENTRATION; DOSE-RESPONSE CURVES; DOSIMETRIC PROPERTIES; LUMINESCENCE SPECTROSCOPY; PHOTO STIMULATED LUMINESCENCE; RADIATION DETECTION; RADIATION HARDNESS; STORAGE PHOSPHORS;

RADIATION;

CESIUM 137; EUROPIUM; POTASSIUM CHLORIDE;

ARTICLE; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; DIPOLE; DOSE RESPONSE; DOSIMETRY; DRUG PELLET; FILTER; OPTICS; PHOTOLUMINESCENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DETECTION; RADIATION DETECTOR; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION HARDNESS; RADIOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SPECTROSCOPY; STORAGE PHOSPHOR; TEMPORAL STABILITY; X RAY DIFFRACTION; CHEMISTRY; LIGHT RELATED PHENOMENA; LUMINESCENCE; METHODOLOGY; PRECIPITATION; RADIOMETRY; TIME; PROCEDURES;

CHEMICAL PRECIPITATION; EUROPIUM; LUMINESCENT MEASUREMENTS; OPTICAL PROCESSES; POTASSIUM CHLORIDE; RADIOMETRY; TIME FACTORS; X-RAY DIFFRACTION;

EID: 84883766380     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.4817522     Document Type: Article

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