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A wide variety of applications in nuclear physics, medical imaging, high energy physics, and geophysics have spurred an interest in the development of new inorganic scintillators that would have significantly improved responses, compared with NaI(T1), for these applications [1]. A number of basic properties can be enumerated which would enhance gamma-ray detectors in all these applications: high detection efficiency, light output comparable to NaI(T1), fast scintillation decay time, rugged, non-hygroscopic and, in some cases, temperature dependence comparable to and radiation length smaller than NaI(T1).
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Melcher, C.L., Schweitzer, J.S. (2000). Cerium-doped lutetium oxyorthosilicate: a fast, efficient new scintillator. In: Wieler, H.J., Coleman, R.E. (eds) PET in Clinical Oncology. Steinkopff, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-57703-1_8
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