{"id":14251,"date":"2024-01-16T15:55:25","date_gmt":"2024-01-16T15:55:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/TheNextWeb=1403022"},"modified":"2024-01-16T15:55:25","modified_gmt":"2024-01-16T15:55:25","slug":"dutch-quantum-dot-startup-bags-e5m-to-improve-x-ray-imaging","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/?p=14251","title":{"rendered":"Dutch quantum dot startup bags \u20ac5M to improve X-ray imaging"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Deep tech<\/a> startup QDI Systems has secured \u20ac5mn in Series A funding to further boost its ambitious mission: revolutionising X-ray imaging and mammography screening using quantum dots technology.<\/p>\n

Quantum dots<\/a> are microscopic semiconductor nanoparticles that convert photons into electronic signals. Although first discovered in the 1980s, quantum dots have only recently been used in the electronics and biomedical industry.<\/p>\n

QDI Systems claims to be the first to apply the technology to medical imaging such as X-rays and mammography screening.<\/p>\n

Founded in 2019 in Groningen, the startup<\/a> was born as a spinoff of the Zernike Institute for Advanced Materials at the University of Groningen by physicist and PhD Artem Shulga. The team consists of seven people, most of whom hold a PhD in chemistry or nanoscience.<\/p>\n

Specifically, QDI Systems uses quantum<\/a> dots to develop imaging devices, with a special focus on X-rays. In collaboration with Swiss Centre for Electronics and Microtechnology (CSEM), it also created the first quantum dots-based CMOS<\/a> imaging chip for X-rays.<\/p>\n

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According to the company, its technology leads to safer, faster, and more precise X-ray imaging. \u201cQuantum dots are 10 times more sensitive than current industrial state-of-the-art material applied in mammography imagers \u2014 amorphous selenium,\u201d Artem Shulga, the startup\u2019s founder and CEO and founder tells TNW.<\/p>\n

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