Scintillator material
Abstract
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.
- Inventors:
- Issue Date:
- OSTI Identifier:
- 7239413
- Patent Number(s):
- 5134293
- Application Number:
- PPN: US 7-218234
- Assignee:
- Universities Research Association, Inc., Washington, DC (United States)
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC02-76CH03000
- Resource Type:
- Patent
- Resource Relation:
- Patent File Date: 12 Jul 1988
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 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
Citation Formats
Anderson, D F, and Kross, B J. Scintillator material. United States: N. p., 1992.
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Anderson, D F, & Kross, B J. Scintillator material. United States.
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"Scintillator material". United States.
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abstractNote = {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.},
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place = {United States},
year = {1992},
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