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Luminescence vs Phosphoimaging - What's the difference?

luminescence | phosphoimaging |

As nouns the difference between luminescence and phosphoimaging

is that luminescence is (physics) any emission of light that cannot be attributed merely to the temperature of the emitting body while phosphoimaging is (medicine) the use of photostimulated luminescence to make a form of x-ray image.

luminescence

English

(wikipedia luminescence)

Noun

(en noun)
  • (physics) Any emission of light that cannot be attributed merely to the temperature of the emitting body.

    • Derived terms

    * bioluminescence * cathodoluminescence * chemoluminescence * crystalloluminescence * electroluminescence * photoluminescence * radioluminescence / roentgenoluminescence * radiophotoluminescence * sonoluminescence * thermoluminescence

    Related terms

    * luminesce * luminescent

    See also

    * fluorescence * phosphorescence

    phosphoimaging

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • (medicine) The use of photostimulated luminescence to make a form of X-ray image