A new lutetia-based ceramic scintillator for X-ray imaging

被引：208

作者：

Lempicki, A

Brecher, C

Szupryczynski, P

Lingertat, H

Nagarkar, VV

Tipnis, SV

Miller, SR

机构：

[1] ALEM Associates, Boston, MA 02115 USA

[2] Nicholas Copernicus Univ, Inst Phys, PL-87100 Torun, Poland

[3] Boston Univ, Dept Mfg Engn, Brookline, MA 02446 USA

[4] Radiat Monitoring Devices Inc, Watertown, MA 02472 USA

来源：

NUCLEAR INSTRUMENTS & METHODS IN PHYSICS RESEARCH SECTION A-ACCELERATORS SPECTROMETERS DETECTORS AND ASSOCIATED EQUIPMENT | 2002年 / 488卷 / 03期

基金：

美国国家卫生研究院;

关键词：

scintillator; X-ray; optical ceramic; digital radiography; imaging;

D O I：

10.1016/S0168-9002(02)00556-9

中图分类号：

TH7 [仪器、仪表];

学科分类号：

0804 ; 080401 ; 081102 ;

摘要：

We report a new scintillator based on a transparent ceramic of Lu2O3:Eu. The material has an extremely high density of 9.4 g/cm(3), a light output comparable to CsI:Tl, and a narrow band emission at 610 nm that falls close to the maximum of the response curve of CCDs. Pixelation of the scintillator to prevent lateral spread of light enhances the spatial and contrast resolution, providing imaging performance that equals or surpasses all other currently known scintillators. Upon further development of readout technologies to take full advantage of its transparency, the new scintillator should play a major role in digital radiographic systems. (C) 2002 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.

引用

页码：579 / 590

页数：12

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