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Scintillating technology: how advanced lanthanum bromide crystals are transforming radiation detection

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"Luxium<sup>TM<\/sup> lanthanum bromide detectors are available in various sizes."LuxiumTM lanthanum bromide detectors are available in various sizes.
Scintillation detection advanced rapidly during and after the Second World War, with a major breakthrough coming in 1948 when physicist Robert Hofstadter discovered that thallium-activated sodium iodide (NaI(Tl)) was an exceptionally effective scintillation material for detecting gamma rays. This discovery laid the foundation for pract

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