Needs, trends, and advances in inorganic scintillators

C Dujardin, E Auffray… - … on Nuclear Science, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper presents new developments in inorganic scintillators widely used for radiation
detection. It addresses major emerging research topics outlining current needs for …

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 …

High‐Z sensitized plastic scintillators: a review

TJ Hajagos, C Liu, NJ Cherepy, Q Pei - Advanced Materials, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
The need for affordable and reliable radiation detectors has prompted significant investment
in new radiation detector materials, due to concerns about national security and nuclear …

Transparent ultra-high-loading quantum dot/polymer nanocomposite monolith for gamma scintillation

C Liu, Z Li, TJ Hajagos, D Kishpaugh, DY Chen… - ACS nano, 2017 - ACS Publications
Spectroscopic gamma-photon detection has widespread applications for research, defense,
and medical purposes. However, current commercial detectors are either prohibitively …

Needs, trends, and advances in scintillators for radiographic imaging and tomography

Z Wang, C Dujardin, MS Freeman… - … on Nuclear Science, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Radiographic imaging and tomography (RadIT), which started with Röntgen's seminal X-ray
work in 1895, now includes an increasing number of IT modalities. In addition to the original …

Gold nanoparticles and their alternatives for radiation therapy enhancement

DR Cooper, D Bekah, JL Nadeau - Frontiers in chemistry, 2014 - frontiersin.org
Radiation therapy is one of the most commonly used treatments for cancer. The dose of
delivered ionizing radiation can be amplified by the presence of high-Z materials via an …

Perovskite quantum-dot-in-host for detection of ionizing radiation

RT Williams, WW Wolszczak, X Yan, DL Carroll - ACS nano, 2020 - ACS Publications
The concept of quantum-dot-in-perovskite solids pioneered by Ning and co-workers
introduces a useful class of solution-processed type I heterostructures for optoelectronics …

Ultrafast hybrid nanocomposite scintillators: A review

VS Shevelev, AV Ishchenko, AS Vanetsev… - Journal of …, 2022 - Elsevier
In recent years, demand for scintillation detectors with high time resolution (better than 100
ps) has emerged in high-energy physics and medical imaging applications. In particular …

Facile single‐precursor synthesis and surface modification of hafnium oxide nanoparticles for nanocomposite γ‐ray scintillators

C Liu, TJ Hajagos, D Kishpaugh, Y Jin… - Advanced Functional …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Inorganic nanoparticles/polymer nanocomposites provide a low cost, high performance
alternative for gamma scintillation. However, inorganic nanoparticles used thus far suffer …

CdTe quantum dots and polymer nanocomposites for x-ray scintillation and imaging

Z Kang, Y Zhang, H Menkara, BK Wagner… - Applied physics …, 2011 - pubs.aip.org
Investigations are reported on the x-ray scintillation and imaging application of CdTe
quantum dots (QDs) and their polymer nanocomposites. Aqueous CdTe QDs with emissions …