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Engineers have 'big ideas' for medical scanners - 13/02/08
A group of engineers at Sheffield University have "big ideas" for medical scanners.
The Sheffield team, together with STFC Rutherford-Appleton Laboratories, has developed one of the world's largest imagers that could shape the future of medical scanners.
It has been developed as part of the £4.5 million Basic Technology MI-3 Consortium and will help in providing instant analysis of the early detection of cancer.
Professor Nigel Allinson, from the university's vision and information engineering group in the department of electronic and electrical engineering, led the project.
He said: "Very large active pixel sensors could soon be making a major impact on medical imaging by further reducing the need for the old technology of film.
"The UK is a world-leader in such sensors for scientific and medical applications and this is a lead we intend to maintain."
MI-3 is funded by the UK Research Council Basic Technology programme and consists of leading groups in detector technology, microelectronics, particle physics, space science, bio-sciences and medical physics at the University of Sheffield, amongst universities.
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