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 …

Advanced halide scintillators: From the bulk to nano

V Vaněček, K Děcká, E Mihóková… - Advanced Photonics …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Halide scintillators have been playing a crucial role in the detection of ionizing radiation
since the discovery of scintillation in NaI: Tl in 1948. The discovery of NaI: Tl motivated the …

[HTML][HTML] Timing performance of lead halide perovskite nanoscintillators embedded in a polystyrene matrix

K Děcká, F Pagano, I Frank, N Kratochwil… - Journal of Materials …, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Nanomaterials like CsPbBr3, benefiting from quantum confinement effects to feature ultra-
fast decay time and tunable emission, are paving the way for the next generation of fast …

Advances in heterostructured scintillators: toward a new generation of detectors for TOF-PET

F Pagano, N Kratochwil, M Salomoni… - Physics in Medicine …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
Objective. Time-of-flight-positron emission tomography would highly benefit from a
coincidence time resolution (CTR) below 100 ps: improvement in image quality and patient …

Advances in perovskite nanocrystals and nanocomposites for scintillation applications

A Anand, ML Zaffalon, A Erroi, F Cova… - ACS Energy …, 2024 - ACS Publications
In recent years, the field of radiation detection has witnessed a paradigm shift with the
emergence of plastic scintillators incorporating perovskite nanocrystals (PNCs). This …

A roadmap for sole Cherenkov radiators with SiPMs in TOF-PET

N Kratochwil, S Gundacker… - Physics in Medicine & …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
Time of flight positron emission tomography can strongly benefit from a very accurate time
estimator given by Cherenkov radiation, which is produced upon a 511 keV positron …

Timing advances of commercial divalent-ion co-doped LYSO: Ce and SiPMs in sub-100 ps time-of-flight positron emission tomography

V Nadig, K Herweg, MMC Chou, JWC Lin… - Physics in Medicine …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
Objective. Together with novel photodetector technologies and emerging electronic front-
end designs, scintillator material research is one of the key aspects to obtain ultra-fast timing …

A proof-of-concept of cross-luminescent metascintillators: testing results on a BGO: BaF2 metapixel

G Konstantinou, R Latella, L Moliner… - Physics in Medicine …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
Objective: Time-of-flight positron emission tomography (PET) is the next frontier in improving
the effective sensitivity. To achieve superior timing for time-of-flight PET, combined with high …

[HTML][HTML] Recent advances in the study of core-valence luminescence (cross luminescence). Review

V Khanin, I Venevtsev, P Rodnyi - Optical Materials, 2023 - Elsevier
The short-wavelength sub-nanosecond luminescence in BaF 2 material, discovered in the
early 80s, gave a new direction to research into fast scintillators and phosphors. In contrast …

Fast timing in medical imaging

P Lecoq, AJ Gonzalez, E Auffray… - … on Radiation and …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We report in this article on the Fast Timing in Medical Imaging workshop,(Valencia, 2 June
2022). The workshop gathered 104 attendees from all over the world, with representatives …