Advances in the scintillation performance of LSO:Ce single crystals Export

@article{citeulike:2620810, abstract = {We investigated the scintillation characteristics of 2186 LSO crystals that were cut from over 400 crystal boules. We measured the light output and energy resolution of all crystals and also measured the decay times of a broad sampling of the crystals. We observed a significant reduction in the variation of both light output and decay time in this population of crystals compared to the results previously published in 1998. The reduced variation in scintillation properties may be attributed to better control of the populations of the two Ce scintillation centers in LSO, as well as better control of the effect of quenching centers and the effects of Ce segregation during crystal growth.}, author = {Melcher, C. L. and Spurrier, M. A. and Eriksson, L. and Eriksson, M. and Schmand, M. and Givens, G. and Terry, R. and Homant, T. and Nutt, R. and Nutt, R.}, booktitle = {Nuclear Science, IEEE Transactions on}, citeulike-article-id = {2620810}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/TNS.2003.814585}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpls/abs_all.jsp?arnumber=1221869}, doi = {10.1109/TNS.2003.814585}, journal = {Nuclear Science, IEEE Transactions on}, keywords = {characterization, lso, scintillator}, number = {4}, pages = {762--766}, posted-at = {2008-04-01 20:07:24}, priority = {2}, title = {Advances in the scintillation performance of LSO:Ce single crystals}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/TNS.2003.814585}, volume = {50}, year = {2003} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:2620810 L3 - citeulike-article-id:2620810 N2 - We investigated the scintillation characteristics of 2186 LSO crystals that were cut from over 400 crystal boules. We measured the light output and energy resolution of all crystals and also measured the decay times of a broad sampling of the crystals. We observed a significant reduction in the variation of both light output and decay time in this population of crystals compared to the results previously published in 1998. The reduced variation in scintillation properties may be attributed to better control of the populations of the two Ce scintillation centers in LSO, as well as better control of the effect of quenching centers and the effects of Ce segregation during crystal growth. IS - 4 JF - Nuclear Science, IEEE Transactions on EP - 766 TI - Advances in the scintillation performance of LSO:Ce single crystals VL - 50 T2 - Nuclear Science, IEEE Transactions on SP - 762 KW - characterization KW - lso KW - scintillator AU - Melcher, CL AU - Spurrier, MA AU - Eriksson, L AU - Eriksson, M AU - Schmand, M AU - Givens, G AU - Terry, R AU - Homant, T AU - Nutt, R AU - Nutt, R PY - 2003/// UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/TNS.2003.814585 ER -