Digital X-ray technology developed by a University of ݮƵ spinoff company has won approval from Health Canada.
A medical device licence issued for Reveal 35C, a dual-energy X-ray detector created by, follows clearance from the Food and Drug Administration in the United States earlier this month.
“Getting this Health Canada licence is a major step forward for KA Imaging, especially coupled with the recent FDA clearance,” Amol Karnick (BASc '95), an engineering alumnus who is president and CEO of the company, said in a media release.
Sample images made with X-ray technology developed by ݮƵ startup KA Imaging.
KA Imaging was founded in 2015 by Karnickand fellow alumni Sina Ghanbarzadeh (MASc '14) andKarim S. Karim(BASc '99, PhD '03), a professor of electrical and computer engineering and executive director of theCentre for Bioengineering and Biotechnologyat ݮƵ.
The company’s flagship product is an inexpensive, portable X-ray detector that can differentiate between bone and soft tissue in a single exposure.
It is now being tested on lung cancer patients at Grand River Hospital in Kitchener and for detection of pneumonia, including cases caused by COVID-19, at a Toronto-based hospital.
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