An example of technological transfer to industry: the “IMI” project

✍ Scribed by A. Stefanini; S.R. Amendolia; A. Annovazzi; P. Baldelli; A. Bigongiari; M.G. Bisogni; F. Catarsi; A. Cetronio; M. Chianella; M.N. Cinti; P. Delogu; M.E. Fantacci; D. Galimberti; M. Gambaccini; C. Gilardoni; G. Iurlaro; C. Lanzieri; M. Meoni; M. Novelli; R. Pani; G. Passuello; R. Pellegrini; M. Pieracci; M. Quattrocchi; V. Rosso; L. Venturelli

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 2004
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 284 KB
• Volume: 518
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0168-9002
• DOI: 10.1016/j.nima.2003.11.026

✦ Synopsis

Several INFN Sections and Departments of Physics of Italian Universities have spent many man-years in the attempt to adapt detector and read-out technologies, originally developed in the field of High Energy Physics, to the domain of biomedical apparatuses. The research covered such areas as the exploitation of crystals for the production of monochromatic X-ray beams, the development of devices for efficient X-ray detection, the design of advanced VLSI electronics, the improvement of Position Sensitive Photomultiplier Tubes and crystals for Nuclear Medicine gammacameras. These studies have been integrated in the Integrated Mammographic Imaging (IMI) project, funded by the Italian Government through the law 46/82 (art.10) and is carried on by five high-technology industries in Italy, namely LABEN, CAEN, AMS, GILARDONI and POL.HI.TECH. We report on the status of this technological transfer project.