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Published in final edited form as: Phys Med Biol. 2017 Mar 22;62(9):3828–3858. doi: 10.1088/1361-6560/aa6862

Table 1.

Parameters used in the Monte Carlo calculations for two known and two hypothetical scintillators.

	Lu₂SiO₅:Ce,Ca (LSO)	LaBr₃:Ce	Ultra-fast	Perfect
Size (mm)	3 × 3 × 30	3 × 3 × 30	3 × 3 × 30	3 × 3 × 30
Interaction length μ for 511 keV photons (cm)	1.2	2.3	1.2^a	1.2^a
Refractive index n	1.82	2.1	2^a	1.5 and 2.0^a
Scintillator Fano factor	6.5	1	1^a	1^a
Photons per 511 keV M_tot	20 000	38 000	20 000^a	>10 000^a
Rise time τ_r (ns)	0.021 (Nemallapudi et al 2015)	0.2 (Glodo et al 2005)	0.0^a	0.0^a
Decay time τ_d (ns)	28 (Nemallapudi et al 2015)	18 (Glodo et al 2005)	1^a	0.0^a

Hypothetical values.