The project consortium is composed of 7 partners from 5 European countries covering different areas of science and technology such as atomic physics, optics, applied mathematics, X-rays and 3D medical imaging.

They will work on this highly interdisciplinary and challenging research project to develop a revolutionary alternative to conventional X-ray tomography, eliminating harmful health impacts and increasing image quality and details. This will be based on a based on a completely new physical and optical paradigm.

Nowadays, classical tomography (Computed Tomography) is extensively used in diagnosing and treating internal diseases and injuries. It is based on acquisition of hundreds to thousands of images from different angles and reconstruction of a full 3D image by heavy software.

This methodology has however a main disadvantage linked to the high dose of radiation delivered to the patient, which risks causing cancer in the patient, or, to avoid such high doses, the use of allergenic contrast material or a degradation in the quality of the results.

VOXEL aims to develop a ground-breaking 3D X-ray technology which not only will bring important reduction of the adverse classical tomography’s side effects, but also about a great improvement of the quality of images with much more information impacting quicker and better diagnosis. The applications vary from general microscopy, medicine, microbiology to material science and even beyond. Read more details here.