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NUCLEAR INSTRUMENTS & METHODS IN PHYSICS RESEARCH SECTION A-ACCELERATORS SPECTROMETERS DETECTORS AND ASSOCIATED EQUIPMENT
Volume 505, Issue 1-2, Pages 93-96Publisher
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DOI: 10.1016/S0168-9002(03)01028-3
Keywords
X-ray detector; single crystal films; spatial resolution; biological microtomography
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Scintillation characteristics of the Lu3Al5O12-based single crystal films, grown on the Y3Al5O12 (YAG) substrate by liquid phase epitaxy, were explored and improved for the application in biological microtomography as X-ray image screens. To achieve a high spatial resolution, the film must be of about 1 mum thickness, a large effective atomic number Z(eff) being necessary for a sufficient absorption in the X-ray range. The Lu3Al5O12:Ce3+ garnet (Z(eff)approximate to60) is a proper heavy material for such films. However, a stable growth of this film on the YAG substrate is hampered by the lattice mismatch between the film and substrate. This mismatch was duly reduced with the use of specially chosen isoelectronic impurities which simultaneously enhance the light yield of the film, and the overlap of its luminescence spectrum with the spectral sensitivity of the photoreceiver (CCD camera). (C) 2003 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.
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