Scintillator material

Patent · Tue Jul 28 00:00:00 EDT 1992

OSTI ID:7239413

Anderson, D F; Kross, B J

An improved scintillator material comprising cerium fluoride is disclosed. Cerium fluoride has been found to provide a balance of good stopping power, high light yield and short decay constant that is superior to known scintillator materials such as thallium-doped sodium iodide, barium fluoride and bismuth germanate. As a result, cerium fluoride is favorably suited for use as a scintillator material in positron emission tomography. 4 figs.

• DOE Contract Number: AC02-76CH03000
• Assignee: Universities Research Association, Inc., Washington, DC (United States)
• Patent Number(s): US 5134293; A
• Application Number: PPN: US 7-218234
• OSTI ID: 7239413
• Resource Relation: Patent File Date: 12 Jul 1988
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

62 RADIOLOGY AND NUCLEAR MEDICINE
CERIUM FLUORIDES
DIAGNOSTIC USES
POSITRON COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY
PERFORMANCE
OPTIMIZATION
RADIOISOTOPE SCANNING
SCINTILLATION COUNTING
CERIUM COMPOUNDS
COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY
COUNTING TECHNIQUES
DIAGNOSTIC TECHNIQUES
EMISSION COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY
FLUORIDES
FLUORINE COMPOUNDS
HALIDES
HALOGEN COMPOUNDS
RARE EARTH COMPOUNDS
TOMOGRAPHY
USES
550601* - Medicine- Unsealed Radionuclides in Diagnostics