Nuclear medicine firm Zecotek Photonics has signed a joint development agreement with NuCare Medical Systems of Seoul for a PET scanner using Zecotek's lutetium fine silicate (LFS) scintillation crystals, solid-state photo detectors based on the company's Micropixel Avalanche Photodiode (MAPD) technology, and a new data acquisition board and readout system.
NuCare will assist in commercializing components and subsystems and will provide technical knowledge for the design of the PET system and a PET insert for CT and MRI devices.
