Open AccessDevelopment of Scintillators in Nuclear Medicine
Author(s) -
Mohammad Khoshakhlagh,
Jalil Pirayesh Islamian,
Seyed Mohammad Abedi,
Babak Moeini
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
world journal of nuclear medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1607-3312
pISSN - 1450-1147
DOI - 10.4103/1450-1147.163241
Subject(s) - medicine , lutetium , bismuth , thallium , scintillator , cerium , radiochemistry , nuclear medicine , lanthanum , nuclear chemistry , detector , yttrium , inorganic chemistry , optics , materials science , metallurgy , chemistry , physics , oxide
High-quality image is necessary for accurate diagnosis in nuclear medicine. There are many factors in creating a good image and detector is the most important one. In recent years, several detectors are studied to get a better picture. The aim of this paper is comparison of some type of these detectors such as thallium activated sodium iodide bismuth germinate cesium activated yttrium aluminum garnet (YAG: Ce) YAP: Ce "lutetium aluminum garnet activated by cerium" CRY018 "CRY019" lanthanum bromide and cadmium zinc telluride. We studied different properties of these crystals including density, energy resolution and decay times that are more important factors affecting the image quality.