Funded Project Project title: Voxel Imaging Positron emission tomography (VIP) brain monitoring scanner Funded by AGAUR with contract number 2023 INNOV 00041 PI: Mokhtar Chmeissani
The aim of this project is the valorization and the exploitation of the VIP technology, which has been developed with an ERC-Advanced Grant. The VIP core innovation is in its ability to measure the impact position and the energy deposited, of the detected gamma photon, in unprecedented precision and accuracy. This is achieved by having a 3D high granular detector module segmented into small voxels, each is 2mm x 1 x 1 mm of High-Z semiconductor detector, Cd(Zn)Te , bonded to its own pixel frontend electronics. A VIP module with an active volume of 2 cm x 2 cm x 2cm of Cd(Zn)Te consists of 4000 independent channels.
An entrepreneur, Eng. Diego Torres, has been hired to lead the valorization and the exploitation plan (Business Plan (PB)) for a future startup to be created. Dr. Gerard Arino and Dr. Mokhtar Chmeissani and leading the technical part of the PB. It is expected that the startup will be created in the 4th quarter of 2025. At the current stage BP of the startup aims to develop a preclinical SPECT scanner based on the VIP technology.
A stand of Quantum Sense, the future IFAE startup, in the Congress of European Society for Molecular Imaging. On the left Eng. D. Torres. On the right, Dr. M. Chmeissani
Deep Detection SL
Deep Detection S.L., created in 2020, has advanced in the industrialization and commercialization of the first model of its dual energy X-ray camera, the PhotonAi DS, based on photon counting technologies. The official launch, of the new detector, will take place at the international @Control Trade Show, May 6-9, in Stuttgart.
In parallel, work is underway to bring the first multispectral camera, up to four energy levels, for industrial inspection to the market by Q2 2026. The company is currently focused on the food sector, improving the detection of low-density foreign bodies. The company currently has a team of 16 technical and business professionals.