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Current trends in scintillator detectors and materials [electronic resource].

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Washington, D.C. : United States. Dept. of Energy, 2001.
Oak Ridge, Tenn. : Distributed by the Office of Scientific and Technical Information, U.S. Dept. of Energy.
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Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, United States. Department of Energy, United States. Department of Health and Human Services, and United States. Department of Energy. Office of Scientific and Technical Information
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Summary
The last decade has seen a renaissance in inorganic scintillator development for gamma ray detection. Lead tungstate (PbWO4) has been developed for high energy physics experiments, and possesses exceptionally high density and radiation hardness, albeit with low luminous efficiency. Lutetium orthosilicate or LSO (Lu2SiO5:Ce) possesses a unique combination of high luminous efficiency, high density, and reasonably short decay time, and is now incorporated in commercial positron emission tomography (PET) cameras. There have been advances in understanding the fundamental mechanisms that limit energy resolution, and several recently discovered materials (such as LaBr3:Ce) possess energy resolution that approaches that of direct solid state detectors. Finally, there are indications that a neglected class of scintillator materials that exhibit near band-edge fluorescence could provide scintillators with sub-nanosecond decay times and high luminescent efficiency.
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E 1.99:lbnl--50252
lbnl--50252
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Published through SciTech Connect.
10/23/2001.
"lbnl--50252"
Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research, Section A 487 1-2 ISSN 0168-9002 FT
Moses, William W.
Funding Information
AC03-76SF00098
45001
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