Hitachi and Redlen to develop PCCT semiconductor detector module

Hitachi Medical and Redlen Technologies to jointly develop a direct conversion semiconductor x-ray detector module required for new photon counting computed tomography systems (PCCT) used in medical imaging. Redlen makes high resolution Cadmium Zinc Telluride (CZT) semiconductor radiation detectors which are used in the fields of medical imaging, security and nondestructive testing. PCCT systems can provide material discrimination, higher image resolution, the addition of functional imaging and further radiation dose reduction. "Current commercial CT systems have limited to no knowledge of individual photon energies. Redlen has successfully developed semiconductor radiation sensors which have the ability to measure the unique energy of individual x-ray photons while operating at the very high count rates and stability levels necessary for x-ray computed tomography. The additional information provided by these advanced radiation sensors is a key to realizing next generation PCCT advances." stated in the release. Hitachi and Redlen to jointly develop the data acquisition technology required to process the order of magnitude higher amount of data received from these semiconductor radiation sensors and the packaging technology necessary for assembling the sensors into a detector module. Mr. Glenn Bindley, President & CEO of Redlen commented on the agreement, "We ar...