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 …

Structured scintillators for efficient radiation detection

Z Lin, S Lv, Z Yang, J Qiu, S Zhou - Advanced science, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Scintillators, which can convert high‐energy ionizing radiation into visible light, have been
serving as the core component in radiation detectors for more than a century of history. To …

Pushing the limits in time-of-flight PET imaging

P Lecoq - IEEE Transactions on radiation and plasma medical …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
There is an increasing demand for high sensitivity multiparametric medical imaging
approaches. High precision time-of-flight positron emission tomography (TOFPET) scanners …

Toward “super-scintillation” with nanomaterials and nanophotonics

H Carr Delgado, P Moradifar, G Chinn, CS Levin… - …, 2024 - degruyter.com
Following the discovery of X-rays, scintillators are commonly used as high-energy radiation
sensors in diagnostic medical imaging, high-energy physics, astrophysics, environmental …

[HTML][HTML] On the way to the 10 ps time-of-flight PET challenge

P Lecoq - The European Physical Journal Plus, 2022 - Springer
There is a consensus for gathering the multidisciplinary academic and industrial medical
imaging community around the ambitious challenge to develop a 10 ps Time-of-Flight PET …

Light extraction enhancement techniques for inorganic scintillators

F Gramuglia, S Frasca, E Ripiccini, E Venialgo, V Gâté… - Crystals, 2021 - mdpi.com
Scintillators play a key role in the detection chain of several applications which rely on the
use of ionizing radiation, and it is often mandatory to extract and detect the generated …

Introduction—Overview on plastic and inorganic scintillators

C Dujardin, M Hamel - Plastic Scintillators: Chemistry and Applications, 2021 - Springer
Scintillators are materials that are able to emit photons when im**ed with ionizing
radiations. This family of materials is covered by both organic and inorganic structures, with …

Self‐Assembled Colloidal Photonic Structures for Directional Radioluminescence of Gd and Ta Oxide Scintillators

R Strassberg, A Nakanishi, B Shamaev… - Advanced Optical …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Radiation detection is being revolutionized by integrating photonic elements into
scintillators. In this study, a scalable and cost‐effective method is proposed to achieve …

Enhanced light output of scintillators by ZnO nanorod arrays

L Huang, F Zhang, D Yuan, B Liu, C Cheng - Physica E: Low-dimensional …, 2022 - Elsevier
Scintillators are widely used in national security, industrial and medical fields. The light
extraction efficiency of scintillator is quite low due to the total internal reflection. Therefore …

Significant enhancement in light output of photonic-crystal-based YAG: Ce scintillator for soft X-ray detectors

HN Yu, XY Meng, ZH Chen, XJ Zhen… - … on Nuclear Science, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Because of its high light output, Gd 2 O 2 S: Tb (P43) phosphor powder is widely used in
scintillator detectors for scanning transmission soft X-ray microscopy. However, the long …