Scintillation materials and detectors that are used in many applications, such as medical
imaging, security, oil-logging, high energy physics and non-destructive inspection, are …

Despite over a century of research and progress, scintillation detectors remain a hot topic.
The performance of ionizing radiation detection devices has been significantly enhanced by …

To control the time-response performance of widely used cerium-activated scintillators in
cutting-edge medical-imaging devices, such as time-of-flight positron-emission tomography …

Single-crystal lutetium yttrium oxyorthosilicate doped by cerium (LYSO: Ce) has been widely
adopted as a scintillator material for radiation detection. The demands from nuclear medical …

Cerium-doped yttrium oxyorthosilicate (YSO: Ce) scintillation crystals are widely used in
mixed radiation field detection, radioactive isotope monitoring, and other fields due to their …

A full concentration range of Lu2 x Gd2–2xSiO5 (LGSO: Ce) crystals was grown by the
Czochralski method. Dependence of the scintillation properties on composition (x) in the …

For a given photon detection efficiency (PDE), the primary, Poisson distributed, dark count
rate of the detector (DCR 0) is one of the most limiting factors affecting the timing resolution …

The light-yield enhancement and decay-time shortening by Ca codoped with Lu 2 Si O 5: Ce
have been observed in experiment. However, the underlying mechanisms remain enigmatic …

There is an urgent need for faster, brighter, and more controllable scintillation materials in
advanced nuclear medicine, high-energy physical experiments, and dark matter particle …

Single-crystal X-ray diffraction (SCD), X-ray fluorescence (XRF), inductively coupled plasma
optical emission spectroscopy (ICP-OES) and X-ray excited luminescence (XEL) …