High energy X-ray radiation sensitive scintillating materials for medical imaging, cancer diagnosis and therapy

L Lu, M Sun, Q Lu, T Wu, B Huang - Nano Energy, 2021 - Elsevier
X-rays are widely adopted in cancer radiotherapy and clinical diagnosis devices for
photodynamic therapy (PDT) and medical radiography. The sole utilization of X-ray …

Physics and technology of time-of-flight PET detectors

DR Schaart - Physics in Medicine & Biology, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
The imaging performance of clinical positron emission tomography (PET) systems has
evolved impressively during the last∼ 15 years. A main driver of these improvements has …

Radiation detector materials: An overview

BD Milbrath, AJ Peurrung, M Bliss… - Journal of Materials …, 2008 - cambridge.org
Due to events of the past two decades, there has been new and increased usage of
radiation-detection technologies for applications in homeland security, nonproliferation, and …

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

W Chewpraditkul, L Swiderski… - … on Nuclear Science, 2009 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The scintillation properties of LuAG: Ce and YAG: Ce crystals were compared with LYSO: Ce
crystal under¿-ray excitation. Light yield non-proportionality and energy resolution were …

Performance of cerium-doped Gd3Al2Ga3O12 (GAGG: Ce) scintillator in gamma-ray spectrometry

J Iwanowska, L Swiderski, T Szczesniak… - Nuclear Instruments and …, 2013 - Elsevier
Performance of cerium-doped Gd 3 Al 2 Ga 3 O 12 (GAGG: Ce) scintillator in gamma-ray
spectrometry has been investigated. The measurements of two samples of GAGG: Ce cover …

Scintillation in low-temperature particle detectors

D Poda - Physics, 2021 - mdpi.com
Inorganic crystal scintillators play a crucial role in particle detection for various applications
in fundamental physics and applied science. The use of such materials as scintillating …

GAMMA: A 16-channel spectroscopic ASIC for SiPMs readout with 84-dB dynamic range

L Buonanno, D Di Vita, M Carminati… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Gain amplitude modulation multichannel ASIC (GAMMA) is a 16-channel application
specified integrated circuit (ASIC), designed in 0.35-technology to read the charge provided …

State-of-the-art challenges and emerging technologies in radiation detection for nuclear medicine imaging: A review

E Enlow, S Abbaszadeh - Frontiers in Physics, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) and positron emission tomography
(PET) are established medical imaging modalities that have been implemented for decades …

Characterization of GAGG: Ce scintillators with various Al-to-Ga ratio

P Sibczynski, J Iwanowska-Hanke, M Moszyński… - Nuclear Instruments and …, 2015 - Elsevier
We have studied the scintillation properties of cerium doped gadolinium aluminum gallium
garnet (GAGG: Ce) scintillators with various Al-to-Ga ratio. Having many advantages, like …

Energy resolution of scintillation detectors

M Moszyński, A Syntfeld-Każuch, L Swiderski… - Nuclear Instruments and …, 2016 - Elsevier
According to current knowledge, the non-proportionality of the light yield of scintillators
appears to be a fundamental limitation of energy resolution. A good energy resolution is of …