Search of new scintillation materials for nuclear medicine application

Author

Korzhik, M. ; Lecoq, P.

Author_Institution

Inst. for Nucl. Problems, Minsk, Byelorussia

Volume

1

fYear

2000

fDate

2000

Firstpage

42522

Abstract

Oxide crystals have a great potential to develop new advanced scintillation materials which are dense, fast, and bright. This combination of parameters, when combined to affordable price, gives a prospect for materials to be applied in nuclear medicine devices. Some of them have been developed for the last two decades along the line of rear-earth (RE) garnet (RE₃Al₅O₁₂) oxiorthosilicate (RE₂SiO₅) and perovskite (REAlO ₃) crystals doped with Ce ions. Among recently developed oxide materials the lead tungstate scintillator (PWO) becomes the most used scintillation material in high energy physics experiments due to its application in CMS and ALICE experiments at LHC. In this paper we discuss scintillation properties of some new heavy compounds doped with Ce as well as light yield improvement of PWO crystals to apply them in low energy physics and nuclear medicine

Keywords

lead compounds; lutetium compounds; molybdenum; radioisotope imaging; scintillation; yttrium; Lu compounds; Lu₂S₃:Ce; Lu₂Si₂O₇:Ce; Lu₂SiO₃:Ce; LuAlO₃:Ce; LuBO₃:Ce; LuF:Ce; PbWO₄:Mo,Y; nuclear medicine; scintillation materials; Biomedical imaging; Collaborative work; Costs; Crystalline materials; Crystals; Luminescence; Nuclear medicine; Physics; Positron emission tomography; Production;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record, 2000 IEEE

Conference_Location

Lyon

ISSN

1082-3654

Print_ISBN

0-7803-6503-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/NSSMIC.2000.949107

Filename

949107