New crystal camera lets doctors see inside the body like never before
> New detector promises to lower the cost and increase the quality of nuclear medicine.
> Date:
> September 21, 2025
> Source:
> Northwestern University
> Summary:
> Scientists have created a perovskite-based gamma-ray detector that surpasses traditional nuclear medicine imaging technology. The device delivers sharper, faster, and safer scans at a fraction of the cost. By combining crystal engineering with pixelated sensor design, it achieves record imaging resolution. Now being commercialized, it promises to expand access to high-quality diagnostics worldwide.
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> Link:
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> Single photon γ-ray imaging with high energy and spatial resolution perovskite
> semiconductor for nuclear medicine
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> That will change a few thing! Make things chea[er.
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That's a nice article, the Nature one, not the ScienceDaily blurb. It sent me on a foray through perovskites, Henry Mosely's work on X-ray spectroscopy, the completion of the periodic table and the works of Bohr, Auger and father and son Bragg. And there's plenty more to follow up on! Very nice indeed.
Jeroen Belleman