intensifier screen

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use in radiation detection

  • detector output connected to a measuring circuit
    In radiation measurement: Radiographic films

    …sandwich the photographic emulsion between intensifier screens that consist of thin layers of light-emitting phosphors of high atomic number, such as calcium tungstate, cesium iodide, or rare earth phosphors. If an X ray interacts in the screen, the light that is produced darkens the film in the immediate vicinity through…

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