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Ionizing X-ray and gamma-ray imaging techniques are used in medical diagnostics, security, and non-destructive testing. CEA Tech institute Leti has achieved some of the advances driving these techniques, and develops highly sensitive spectrometric detectors capable of discerning tissue or material in greater detail than other techniques.
The institute also leverages signal acquisition and processing and image processing know-how to develop in vivo and in vitro optical imaging systems. For example, the institute developed and patented lensless imaging, a technique used to monitor cell cultures in real time, capturing images of several thousand cells simultaneously. Leti also possesses expertise in unfocused imaging and Raman spectroscopy. By combining these technologies, the institute is able to both locate and characterize biological compounds on a single sample.
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Researchers from CEA-Leti, a CEA Tech institute, tested a novel hypothermia treatment for glioblastoma, a particularly serious type of brain tumor, at biomedical research center Clinatec.
A new-generation X-ray Photon Counting Detector Module (PCDM) which can count and classify photons at very high X-ray flux and with particularly high spatial resolution is currently in the clinical testing phase. The PCDMs integrating technology developed by CEA Leti, a CEA Tech institute, is expected to enable new personalized diagnostic tests.
CEA-Leti, a CEA Tech institute, is gradually shifting over to more sustainable practices.
CEA-List, a CEA Tech institute, has mapped the parts that present induced radioactivity in medical particle accelerators, information that is vital to dismantling the equipment safely.
A powerful and modular new computing code was developed to simulate the dose of radiation received by patients during radiation therapy and medical imaging procedures.