Hitachi Medical will collaborate with Redlen Technologies of Canada to jointly develop a multienergy photon-counting CT semiconductor detector module for new CT systems.
The companies believe the technology will lead to new capabilities such as higher image resolution, the addition of functional imaging, and radiation dose reduction.
Redlen manufactures high-resolution cadmium zinc telluride (CZT) semiconductor radiation detectors, which are used in the fields of medical imaging, security, and nondestructive testing. The company's semiconductor radiation sensors measure the energy of individual x-ray photons while operating at the very high count rates and stability levels required for CT.
Hitachi and Redlen will also jointly develop the data acquisition technology required to process the larger amounts of data received from the semiconductor sensors, as well as the packaging technology needed to assemble the sensors into a detector module.
