ReviewChemistry of materials : a publication of the American Chemical Society2025
Guidelines for the Selection of Scintillators for Indirect Photon-Counting X-ray Detectors.
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- Design of a next-generation conventional scintillator x-ray detector: Improved spatial resolution and fill factor.Medical physics · 2026Article
- First-principles study of rare-earth-free CsRSC advances · 2026Article
- High-Speed Detection of X-ray Pulses Using a Digital Counter Coupled with Perovskite Composite Scintillators.ACS applied materials & interfaces · 2026Article
- Harnessing Self-Sensitized Scintillation by Supramolecular Engineering of CsPbBrAdvanced materials (Deerfield Beach, Fla.) · 2026Article
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Abstract
X-ray photon-counting detectors (PCDs) are a rapidly developing technology. Current PCDs used in medical imaging are based on CdTe, CZT, or Si semiconductor detectors, which directly convert X-ray photons into electrical pulses. An alternative approach is to combine ultrafast scintillators with silicon photomultipliers (SiPMs). Here, an overview is presented of different classes of scintillators, with the aim of assessing their potential application in scintillator-SiPM based indirect X-ray PCDs. To this end, three figures of merit (FOMs) are defined: the pulse intensity, the pulse duration, and the pulse quality. These FOMs quantify how characteristics such as light yield, pulse shape, and energy resolution affect the suitability of scintillators for application in indirect PCDs. These FOMs are based on emissive characteristics; a fourth FOM (ρZ
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