Studies on two recently commercialized scintillators for gamma-ray spectroscopy and imaging

Authors

  • Raffaele Scafè Independent Researcher, c/o Prof. Roberto Pani, Sapienza University of Rome, P.le Aldo Moro 5, 00185 Rome, Italy.
  • Renato Pani NG Detectors, s.r.l., Viale Gioacchino Rossini 26, 00198 Rome, Italy.
  • Marco Puccini ENEA - Italian National Agency for New Technologies, Energy and Sustainable Economic Development, TERIN-ICT, Lungotevere Thaon di Revel 76, 00196 Rome, Italy.
  • Stefano Ridolfi Ars Mensurae, Via Vincenzo Comparini 101, 00188 Rome, Italy.
  • Rosanna Pellegrini Dept. of Molecular Medicine, Sapienza University of Rome, P.le Aldo Moro 5, 00185 Rome, Italy.
  • Roberto Pani Dept. of Medico-Surgical Sciences and Biotechnologies, Sapienza University of Rome, P.le Aldo Moro 5, 00185 Rome, Italy.

Abstract

The present work is aimed to study some characteristics of the two recently commercialized CRY18 and CRY19 crystals (Crytur, Cz), namely the elemental compositions, and the suitability of a TiO 2 -based white-pigment as light-reflector around the blind faces of the scintillators. The energy dispersive X-ray fluorescence
technique has been used for the first goal while the second one has been performed by comparing the emission spectrum of the first crystal to the literature ones typical of the TiO 2 .

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Published

2022-12-29

Issue

Vol. 12 No. 2 (2022)

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