Hole-trap-compensated scintillator material and computed tomography machine containing the same

摘要

Afterglow in a luminescent material in which a significant factor in afterglow is the release of holes from hole traps in the scintillator material is substantially reduced by adding cerium as a hole-trapping species to the scintillator composition which successfully competes with the hole traps in the basic scintillator composition. In gadolinium gallium garnet activated with chromium, the addition of cerium in the range of 0.2 to 0.255 weight percent reduces afterglow in this manner while exhibiting excellent stability to x-ray damage after exposure to an initial pair of x-ray pulses.