Novel scintillating material 2-(4-styrylphenyl)benzoxazole for the fully digital and MRI compatible J-PET tomograph based on plastic scintillators.

A novel plastic scintillator is developed for the application in the digital positron emission tomography (PET). The novelty of the concept lies in application of the 2-(4-styrylphenyl)benzoxazole as a wavelength shifter. The substance has not been used as scintillator dopant before. A dopant shifts...

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Main Authors: Anna Wieczorek, Kamil Dulski, Szymon Niedźwiecki, Dominika Alfs, Piotr Białas, Catalina Curceanu, Eryk Czerwiński, Andrzej Danel, Aleksander Gajos, Bartosz Głowacz, Marek Gorgol, Beatrix Hiesmayr, Bożena Jasińska, Krzysztof Kacprzak, Daria Kamińska, Łukasz Kapłon, Andrzej Kochanowski, Grzegorz Korcyl, Paweł Kowalski, Tomasz Kozik, Wojciech Krzemień, Ewelina Kubicz, Mateusz Kucharek, Muhsin Mohammed, Monika Pawlik-Niedźwiecka, Marek Pałka, Lech Raczyński, Zbigniew Rudy, Oleksandr Rundel, Neha G Sharma, Michał Silarski, Tomasz Uchacz, Wojciech Wiślicki, Bożena Zgardzińska, Marcin Zieliński, Paweł Moskal
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2017-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC5703468?pdf=render