Bright Innovations: Review of Next-Generation Advances in Scintillator Engineering

P Singh, G Dosovitskiy, Y Bekenstein - ACS nano, 2024 - ACS Publications
This review focuses on modern scintillators, the heart of ionizing radiation detection with
applications in medical diagnostics, homeland security, research, and other areas. The …

On the origin of the light yield enhancement in polymeric composite scintillators loaded with dense nanoparticles

I Villa, A Monguzzi, R Lorenzi, M Orfano, V Babin… - Nano Letters, 2024 - ACS Publications
Fast emitting polymeric scintillators are requested in advanced applications where high
speed detectors with a large signal-to-noise ratio are needed. However, their low density …

Recent developments in low-dimensional heterostructures of halide perovskites and metal chalcogenides as emergent materials: Fundamental, implementation, and …

PYD Maulida, S Hartati, Y Firdaus, AT Hidayat… - Chemical Physics …, 2024 - pubs.aip.org
In the past decades, halide perovskites and chalcogenide materials have provided
significant contributions to the vast development for optoelectronic applications. Halide …

Enhancing timing performance of heterostructures with double-sided readout

F Pagano, N Kratochwil, C Lowis… - Physics in Medicine …, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
Objective. Heterostructured scintillators offer a promising solution to balance the sensitivity
and timing in TOF-PET detectors. These scintillators utilize alternating layers of materials …

Fast Emitting Nanocomposites for High‐Resolution ToF‐PET Imaging Based on Multicomponent Scintillators

M Orfano, F Pagano, I Mattei, F Cova… - Advanced Materials …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Time‐of‐Flight Positron Emission Tomography (ToF‐PET) is a medical imaging
technique, based on the detection of two back‐to‐back γ‐photons generated from …

Highly Luminous Scintillating Nanocomposites Enable Ultrafast Time Coincidence Resolution for γ‐rays Detection with Heterostructured Multilayer Scintillators

M Sala, M Orfano, V Secchi, I Mattei… - Advanced Functional …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Brighter fast scintillators are needed for advanced applications to acquire data with high
signal‐to‐noise ratio in short time windows, like in the time‐of‐flight positron emission …

Wavelength-independent light extraction enhancement by nanostructures for scintillators with broadband emission

F Zhang, Y Huang, Y Guo, J Zhang, X Ouyang… - Applied Physics …, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
Conventional photonic crystals with a single period are capable of enhancing the light
output of scintillators based on the partial elimination of internal total reflection. However, the …

[HTML][HTML] Insights and simulation of metascintillator-based brain PET systems to enhance ToF capability

DAB Bonifacio, R Latella, HM Murata… - Nuclear Engineering …, 2024 - Elsevier
The integration of Time-of-Flight (ToF) information into Positron Emission Tomography (PET)
image reconstruction enhances both signal-to-noise ratio and the localization of annihilation …

IOP: Enhancing timing performance of heterostructures with double-sided readout

F Pagano, E Auffray, N Kratochwil, JW Cates… - Phys. Med. Biol …, 2024 - cds.cern.ch
Objective. Heterostructured scintillators offer a promising solution to balance the sensitivity
and timing in TOF-PET detectors. These scintillators utilize alternating layers of materials …

Advances in Design of High‐Performance Heterostructured Scintillators for Time‐of‐Flight Positron Emission Tomography

P Krause, E Rogers, G Bizarri - Advanced Theory and …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Core to advancing time‐of‐flight positron emission tomography (ToF‐PET) toward a less
invasive, more flexible procedure with a higher diagnostic power is the development of …