PET vendor Positron has received a patent from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office for solid-state semiconductor detector technology used in precision measuring of coordinates and detection of ionization particles.
The technology was developed and the patent issued through collaboration with Dr. Valeri Saveliev of the Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY) in Hamburg, Germany. DESY is a research center that operates particle accelerators to investigate the structure of matter.
The detector is capable of detecting low-energy ionization particles by overcoming a fundamental limitation of the precision coordinate measuring: multiple scattering in material, according to Positron. It has a number of potential applications in medical imaging and radiotherapy, Positron said.
