The reason one cannot use ordinary light to get X-ray is that such light is scattered many times when passing through tissue. The resulting image is diffuse, as from a flashlight shining behind a hand. However, some photons do move straight through tissue like X-rays. Those are also the photons that move fastest and arrive first at a detector.
SPQR core technology detects single photons with ultra-high time resolution, which allows to separate out photons that move on different paths through tissue. We use proprietary software to synthesize X-ray-like images from such data.
SPQR core technologies has a wide range of applications in medical imaging as well as industrial radiology, everywhere where non-destructive imaging capabilities are needed and negative side effects of X-rays are undesirable. In particular, we have identified ophthalmology as promising area and we developing our first product for this use case.
With high time-resolution single quantum detectors we can separate out the photons of light that move fastest through tissue.
This is our core innovation.
SPQR AB senior leadership is made of Erik Aurell and Val Zwiller, professors of Physics at KTH, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden. Together they have close to 50 years of work experience in research and development, inside and outside academia, and held positions in Finland, China, France and The Netherlands. The founding team also includes Theodor Staffas, a young PhD student at KTH with extensive practical experience experimental physics.
Founder at SPQR,
Professor at KTH
Founder at SPQR,
Professor at KTH
Founder at SPQR,
PhD at KTH
Advisor at SPQR,
data scientist, AI engineer, bioinformatician
Advisor at SPQR,
researcher at RISE Research Institutes of Sweden
