Next generation of PET scanners - IMPORTANT SINGAPORE, Dec. 9, 2014 /CNW/ - Zecotek Photonics Inc. (TSX-V: ZMS; Frankfurt: W1I), a developer of leading-edge photonics technologies for medical, industrial and scientific markets, today announced that the Japanese Patent Office has issued a patent for its Micro-channel Avalanche Photodiode (MAPD) silicon photomultiplier. The Company continues to secure important intellectual property related to key elements of a high performance positron emission tomography (PET) medical scanner, high energy physics (CERN), and retrofit industrial imaging sectors. Strengthening its worldwide patent portfolio specific to imaging technology and associated components remains a high priority.
"Our MAPD silicon photomultipliers are now patented in Japan, the United States, Russia, South Korea, Singapore and China, with patents pending in other countries," said Dr. A.F. Zerrouk, Chairman, President, and CEO of Zecotek Photonics Inc. "We will continue to secure intellectual property for those components, such as the MAPDs and LFS scintillation crystals, used in next generation PET medical scanners and high energy physics."
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