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NON-PROPORTIONALITY AND ENERGY RESOLUTION OF SCINTILLATION DETECTORS

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Radiation Detectors for Medical Applications

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The application of scintillation detectors in nuclear medicine utilizing gamma spectrometry methods, as PET and SPECT detectors, and gamma cameras, requires a high energy resolution of the detectors. The limitations of energy resolution are discussed with a special emphasis on non-proportional response of scintillators to gamma rays and electrons, which is of crucial importance to an intrinsic resolution of the crystals. An importance of the scattering of secondary electrons (δ-rays) on intrinsic resolution is pointed out. Examples of the study carried out with different crystals and particularly those used in nuclear medicine are presented.

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  1. Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium

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  2. Institute for Scintillation Materials, Kharkov, Ukraine

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  3. Institute for Scintillation Materials, Kharkov, Ukraine

    Boris Grinyov

  4. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A

    William W. Moses

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Moszyński, M. (2006). NON-PROPORTIONALITY AND ENERGY RESOLUTION OF SCINTILLATION DETECTORS. In: Tavernier, S., Gektin, A., Grinyov, B., Moses, W.W. (eds) Radiation Detectors for Medical Applications. NATO Security through Science Series. Springer, Dordrecht . https://doi.org/10.1007/1-4020-5093-3_13

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