Development of mixed halide translucent ceramics for imaging plates

Storage phosphor materials can be used to record an incident radiation dose, and they are often used for personal dose monitoring applications and imaging plates (IPs). Conventionally, the storage phosphors for IPs are mainly used in the form of powders and needle crystals while IPs using translucent ceramics have recently attracted much attention. In this paper, we review the recent studies of translucent ceramic storage phosphors for IPs in addition to conventional storage phosphors.