Gamma Medica-Ideas introduces new gamma camera
Gamma Medica-Ideas announced Tuesday a new fully solid-state gamma camera for the company's FLEX pre-clinical imaging platform to produce improvements in SPECT imaging. The new GM-I camera is built using high performance cadmium zinc telluride crystals from GM-I partner eV-PRODUCTS of Saxonburg, Pa. GM-I uses its own integrated front-end application specific integrated circuits (ASICs) to build the CZT crystals into fully solid-state gamma camera detector modules, according to a release.
The major advantages of GM-I's solid-state camera lie in the much improved signal-to-noise ratio the CZT detector technology provides. When a gamma ray strikes GM-I's solid-state crystal, an electrical signal is produced in the crystal, which directly generates a digital image. By contrast, all other gamma cameras use a vacuum-tube technology that has been relatively unchanged for over 50 years, the company said.
GM-I's new direct digital camera delivers much sharper images and opens up previously unattainable imaging protocols, such as the simultaneous imaging of isotopes with similar energies, the company said.
The major advantages of GM-I's solid-state camera lie in the much improved signal-to-noise ratio the CZT detector technology provides. When a gamma ray strikes GM-I's solid-state crystal, an electrical signal is produced in the crystal, which directly generates a digital image. By contrast, all other gamma cameras use a vacuum-tube technology that has been relatively unchanged for over 50 years, the company said.
GM-I's new direct digital camera delivers much sharper images and opens up previously unattainable imaging protocols, such as the simultaneous imaging of isotopes with similar energies, the company said.