The invention relates to a low-pressure gas discharge lamp (10) for use in a scanning or blinking backlighting system, the low-pressure gas discharge lamp (10) comprising a luminescent layer (20) comprising a luminescent material selected from a group comprising: (Sr1-x-y-z, Bax, Cay, Eu(II)z)2Si04 (also known as XSO), (Sr1-x-y-z, Bax, Cay, Eu(II)z)Si2N2O2 (also known as XSON), and (Sr1-x-y-z, Bax, Cay, Eu(II)z)2Si5N8 (also known as XSN), wherein 0=x<1, 0=y<, 0<z=0.20, and x+y+z=l. The luminescent materials according to the invention have a relatively short decay time (less than 0.5 milliseconds), resulting in a relatively short afterglow time of the low-pressure gas discharge lamp (10) according to the invention. When using known low- pressure gas discharge lamps, for example, comprising the luminescent materials BAM, LAP and YOX in the scanning or blinking backlighting system, the afterglow time of these luminescent materials creates visible motion artifacts, especially when the scanning or blinking time is increased from 50 Hertz or 60 Hertz to, for example, 90 Hertz or 100 Hertz. Replacing the known luminescent materials LAP and/or YOX with luminescent material according to the invention will result in a reduction of the motion artifacts.