Prismatic Sensors

History

2020: GE Healthcare purchased Prismatic Sensors

At the end of November, 2020 GE Healthcare purchased the Swedish startup of Prismatic Sensors which developed technology of the deep silicon detector for a computer tomography with the mode of the account of photons (PCCT). Financial terms of transaction are not disclosed. GE Healthcare expects to close the transaction in January, 2021.

The KT technology with the account of photons, according to GE Healthcare, can expand clinical opportunities of traditional KT, thereby having provided diagnostic advantages of this technology in different areas, including oncology, cardiology and neurology.

GE Healthcare purchased the developer of technology for a computer tomography of Prismatic Sensors

At calculation of photons all electronic noise can be eliminated at the minimum trigger level therefore PCCT allows to visualize the smallest structural parts of internals and more precisely to estimate material density. At the same time this technology allows to avoid emergence of artifacts which often become the reason of the wrong diagnostics. Besides, such technology reduces a dose of radiation of the patient. It is especially important for procedures at which the dose of x-ray emission should be minimum, for example at inspection of small children.

The Prismatic Sensors company created in 2012 by Royal Institute of Technology of KTH in Stockholm patented a new method of positioning of silicon sensors "edge" that the detector could absorb photons with very high energy and quickly enough register them. Thanks to it the detektok is capable to conduct calculation of hundreds of millions of photons of KT per second.

We consider that this technology will allow a computer tomography to step forward and to set the new standard of treatment, and finally - to improve results of diagnostics and therapy for millions of patients around the world, - the CEO of GE Healthcare Kieran Murphy in the press release said.[1]

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