24 April marked the beginning of one of the largest and most important industrial tradeshows in the world – the Hannover Messe 2017. During the event, about 200 Polish companies and organisations and 27 Polish technologies will be presented to an international audience, including innovative solutions devised at the Jagiellonian University.
Polish solutions will be presented at three exhibition stands: Polish companies stand, SciTech Poland stand (comprising winners of the ‘Best of the Best’ students competition) and Start-up Zone stand.
The Jagiellonian University presents the J-PET scanner. The main novelty with respect to the PET modalities currently produced and developed in world laboratories is the application of plastic scintillators (instead of the presently used expensive crystals) as detectors of radiation emitted by radiopharmaceuticals administered to the patient. The scanner will be constructed based on novel solutions in the field of detection of nuclear radiation, digital electronics, and the reconstruction of the place and time of the gamma quanta interaction. These solutions were invented and tested at the Jagiellonian University by a group of beneficiaries of the project. Experts from this group constitute the key personnel of this project, and guarantee its successful realisation. The technology is unique on the world scale, which is reflected by 16 international patent applications and over 50 scientific publications in globally recognized scientific journals. This project will result in the development of the technology, which will allow production of significantly less expensive PET devices, characterised in relation to current devices by: (i) a three times larger field of view, (ii) two times better time resolution, (iii) a possibility of diagnosis of the whole body with a four times lower dose of radiopharmaceuticals, (iv) the possibility to adopt the size of the diagnostic chamber to the size of the patient. More cost effective PET devices with the aforementioned advantages will contribute to a broader application of cancer diagnostics in the future (especially for individuals of larger-sized bodies or those battling claustrophobia) and will allow for more personalized decisions about the therapeutic strategy.
The National Synchrotron Radiation Centre SOLARIS is also presented at the tradeshow. The synchrotron is a multidisciplinary research tool which will aid scientists in areas such as biology, chemistry, physics, materials science, medicine, pharmacology, geology and crystallography.
HussarTech, a spin-out company established by the Jagiellonian University researchers and doctoral students, exhibits its innovative hybrid material with bactericide, fungicide and antiviral properties.
The Hannover Messe is one of the world's largest trade fairs. It is held on the Hanover Fairground in Hanover, Lower Saxony, Germany. Typically, there are about 6,500 exhibitors and 250,000 visitors.
