Improved amplifier technology
for use in positron emission tomography
In the EU project ENEFRF, researchers at the Ångström Laboratory are working on improving the radio frequency amplifiers that will make technology for cancer diagnostics more efficient, accessible, and affordable. "We are seeing a dramatic increase in the number of PET scans and therefore the costs for society. With upgraded technology, the costs for maintenance and operation will be reduced," says Dragos Dancila, Docent in Applied Physics.
Uppsala University has a long
tradition of developing advanced technology for medical purposes. It was in
Uppsala that 61 years ago a tumour was treated for the first time using proton
radiation at the Gustaf Werner Institute for Nuclear Chemistry, GWI, todays The
Svedberg Laboratory, TSL. Now researchers at the Ångström Laboratory are
developing high-performance radio frequency amplifiers for medical imaging
technology such as cancer diagnostics.
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Source: Phys.org