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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2020 Feb 6.
Published in final edited form as: Phys Med Biol. 2019 Feb 6;64(4):04TR01. doi: 10.1088/1361-6560/aaf4de

Figure 5.

Figure 5

Physics of organic scintillators (left) and emission spectra (right). Primary or secondary charged particles deposit energy in the solvent, exciting solvent molecules. Excitation energy transfers non-radiatively from solvent to solvent molecule. Luminescence is produced when excitation energy is transferred to a solute molecule.