PETsys Electronics

• June 2024

  PETsys Electronics was distiguished by CERN with the very exclusive CMS Industrial Award 2024.

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June 2024
PETsys Electronics was distinguished by CERN with the very exclusive CMS Industry Award 2024:

CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, is one of the world's largest and most respected centres for scientific research: "At CERN, we probe the fundamental structure of the particles that make up everything around us. We do so using the world's largest and most complex scientific instruments".
 
CMS, the Compact Muon Solenoid experiment, is one of two large general-purpose particle physics detectors built on the Large Hadron Collider at CERN in Switzerland and France: "The goal of the CMS experiment is to investigate a wide range of physics, including the search for the Higgs boson, extra dimensions, and particles that could make up dark matter".
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

• December 2023

  2023: Best year ever for PETsys, once more

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December 2023
 
 

• December 2022

  2022: Best year ever for PETsys, again

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December 2022
 
 

• November 2022

  PETsys was present at 2022 IEEE NSS/MIC, with an online booth and presentations

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November 2022
 
 
 
 

• October 2022

  PETsys is Hiring to better support it's growth

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October 2022
 
 
 
 
 

• September 2022

  Pre-series production of a PETsys TOFPET2 ASIC based PET Scanner, started in China by a PETsys customer.

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September 2022
 
 

• December 2021

  2021: Best year ever for PETsys, again

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December 2021
 
 
 

• October 2021

  PETsys was present at 2021 Virtual IEEE NSS/MIC, with an online booth and presentations

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October 2021
 
 
 
 
 
 

• June 2021

  12 PET scanner prototypes are being built or tested, with PETsys technology, by nine companies, some of which have already decided to adopt PETsys technology.

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June 2021
 
 
 
 
 
 

• June 2021

  PETsys is Hiring to better support it's growth

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June 2021
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

• March 2021

  A big PETsys sale for NASA was delivered !

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March 2021
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

• December 2020

  2020: Best year ever for PETsys

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December 2020
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

• November 2020

  PETsys was present at 2020 Virtual IEEE NSS/MIC, with an online booth and presentations

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November 2020
 
 
 
 

• July 2020

  10 PET scanner prototypes are being built, with PETsys technology, by seven companies, some of which have already decided to adopt PETsys technology.

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July 2020
 
 

• March 2020

  PETsys is the leader of a research consortium to develop an application of PETsys TOF-PET for Proton Therapy: "In-beam Time-of-Flight (TOF) Positron Emission Tomography (PET) for proton radiation therapy". The collaboration includes four institutions in Portugal (PETsys, LIP, C2TN and ICNAS), and two institutions in Texas, USA: University of Texas at Austin (Department of Physics, Austin) and UT MD Anderson Cancer Center (Proton Therapy Center, Houston).

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March 2020
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

• December 2019

  PETsys continues registering a sales and profit growth

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December 2019
 
 
 
 

• October 2019

  PETsys was present at IEEE NSS/MIC 2019, in Manchester (booth 316)

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October 2019
 
 

• July 2019

  CERN chooses PETsys Electronics and ordered the development of a new ASIC: TOFHiR2 (Time-of-Flight at High-Rate) for the CMS MIP Timing Detector (LYSO timing layer of the CMS experiment). This will be a radiation-hard, production version of the chip.

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July 2019
 
 
 
 
 
 

• December 2018

  PETsys registers a high sales growth (3x 2017)

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December 2018
 
 
 
 
 
 

• November 2018

  PETsys Electronics was listed among Medical & Health IT and one of the top 25 Portuguese emerging start-ups for 2018 in the Scale-up report. This dynamic Scale-up report is a ground-breaking study of the top 25 emerging Start-ups in Portugal, selected by considering the total funding received and total revenues of all start-ups with Portuguese origin, with less than 5 years of operation (i.e. between 2012 & 2017).

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November 2018

• November 2018

  PETsys present at IEEE NSS/MIC 2018, in Sydney (booth 42)

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November 2018

• October 2018

  New PETsys TOFPET ASIC patent granted in Japan

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October 2018

• September 2018

  Seven PET scanner prototypes are being built, with PETsys technology, by five companies, some of which have already decided to adopt PETsys technology.

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September 2018

• September 2018

  Customers in 4 continents: America, Europe, Asia and Australia (location map availlabe).

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September 2018





• September 2018

  ASICs volume delivery: PETsys ASIC BGAs delivery in volume started

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September 2018



• August 2018

  PANDA experiment uses PETsys Electronics. The PANDA experiment at the future Facility for Antiproton and Ion Research (FAIR) requires excellent identification of subatomic particles. For this purpose, a Detector for Internally Reflected Cherenkov light (DIRC) is being developed at the University of Gießen. The working principle is based on detecting single photons by Microchannel Plate Photomultiplier Tubes (MCP-PMTs). Because of the high time resolution, small form factor and scalability, the PETsys TOFPET ASIC was chosen as the favored readout option. The current prototype setup which was recently tested at CERN used more than 1000 channels. The final detector will consist of 28,800 channels.

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August 2018

• July 2018

  The new ASIC (TOFHiR: Time-of-Flight at High-Rate) design, engineered by PETsys Electronics for CERN, was delivered in July 2018: TOFHIR ASIC will be used in the CMS MIP Timing Detector (LYSO timing layer of the CMS experiment) at CERN.

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July 2018

• July 2018

  Electronics delivery: PETsys Electronics' delivery, started for Industrial PET prototypes

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July 2018

• June 2018

  ASICs delivery: PETsys ASIC BGAs delivery, started for Industrial PET prototypes.

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June 2018

• March 2018

  PETsys ASIC and Electronics selected for Industrial PET prototypes.

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March 2018

• December 2017

  PETsys ASIC2 demonstrator project, supported by Portuguese (PT 2020) and European (ERDF) authorities, was executed with success.

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December 2017

Demonstrator Project TOFPET2 ASIC - High Performance ASIC for Time-of-Flight PET, funded by PETsys Electronics SA, PO Regional Lisboa, PORTUGAL 2020 - Sistema de Incentivos a Investigação e Desenvolvimento Tecnológico (PT 2020) and FEDER (ERDF) - European Comission (Projecto Demonstrador 17665). 

More info: PT 2020 - Demonstrator project

• November 2017

  CERN chooses the ASIC developed by PETsys Electronics and ordered the development of the new ASIC (TOFHiR: Time-of-Flight at High-Rate) for the CMS MIP Timing Detector (LYSO timing layer of the CMS experiment).

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November 2017

• November 2017

  PETsys Electronics was listed first among Medical & Health IT and one of the top 25 Portuguese emerging start-ups for 2017 in the Scale-up report. This dynamic Scale-up report is a ground-breaking study of the top 25 emerging Start-ups in Portugal, selected by considering the total funding received and total revenues of all start-ups with Portuguese origin, with less than 5 years of operation (i.e. between 2011 & 2016).

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November 2017

• October 2017

  PETsys' Talks at IEEE 2017 in Atlanta: "Experimental characterization of the TOFPET2 ASIC" and "PETsys readout solution for large numbers of photo-sensors"

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October 2017

PETsys' Talks and Posters at IEEE 2017 in Atlanta

PETsys Electronics participated actively at the IEEE NSS-MIC 2017 conference (October 2017), in Atlanta, Georgia, USA.

 

In addition to the booth,PETsys Electronics presented two oral presentations:

- Experimental characterization of the TOFPET2 Rev-b ASIC, presenting the performance of the new PETsys TOFPET2 ASIC, and the

- PETsys readout solution for large numbers of photo-sensors, presented in the industrial session.

  

Other important results related to PETsys readout electronics were presented in the talks and posters listed below:

 

Poster session M-03-039: Development of innovative PET module with Depth of Interaction and Timing capabilities (#3205)

G. Stringhini, M. Pizzichemi, A. Polesel, M. Paganoni, S. Tavernier, E. Auffray

 

Poster session M-08-008: Development of a detector module for Time-of-Flight PET with improved timing performance (#2340)

T. Niknejad, R. Borrego, R. Bugalho, A. Di Francesco, L. Ferramacho, C. Leong, M. Rolo, J. C. Silva, R. Silva, M. Silveira, S. Tavernier, J. Varela

 

Poster M-08-013: Progress report for an accurate PET detector based on SiPMs and the TOFPET ASIC (#3040)

A. Aguilar, E. Lamprou, A. González-Montoro, J. M. Monzo, G. Cañizares, L. F. Vidal, L. Hernandez, S. Iranzo, S. Sánchez, F. Sánchez, A. J. González, J. M. Benlloch

 

Oral presentation N-12-01: The PANDA Endcap Disc DIRC (#1747); E. Etzelmüller

 

Oral presentation M-13-5: Performance Evaluation and MR-Compatibility of MADPET4: A Small Animal PET Insert for 7T MRI (#2083)

N. Omidvari, J. Cabello, G. Topping, F. R. Schneider, S. Paul, S. I. Ziegler

• October 2017

  Sibylle I. Ziegler's team from Technische Universität München Nuklearmedizinische Klinik und Poliklinik, presents excellent performance results obtained in a preclinical PET/MR based on PETsys TOFPET1 ASIC, in an oral presentation at the IEEE NSS-MIC meeting in Atlanta (2017). The results were also submitted to Physics in Medicine & Biology: PET Performance Evaluation of MADPET4: A Small Animal PET Insert for a 7-T MRI Scanner, Negar Omidvari, Jorge Cabello, Geoffrey Topping, Florian Schneider, Stephan Paul, Markus Schwaiger and Sibylle I. Ziegler.

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October 2017

Link to the presentation

• September 2017

  Tahereh Niknejad, a PhD. student with a grant sponsered by PETsys Electronics, received the price for the best poster at the 14th International Conference on Scintillating Materials and their applications in September 2017. Tahereh presented a poster showing how the proprietary DOI (Depth of Interaction) scheme of PETsys Electronics can be used to improve the time resolution in realistic PET detector modules.

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September 2017

• July 2017

  PETsys TOFPET2 ASIC was well received by the Market

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July 2017

• March 2017

  New PETsys TOFPET2 ASIC was LAUNCHED and is now available.

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March 2017

• March 2017

  PETsys Electronics got the third "SEAL OF EXCELLENCE" from the European Commission. The Certificate was delivered by the European Commission, to the project proposal ClearPEMplus, Next generation detectors for high-resolution Positron Emission Mammography, submitted under the Horizon 2020’s SME instrument phase 2, in January 18, 2017.

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March 2017



• November 2016

  PETsys TOFPET2 ASIC ready.

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November 2016

• November 2016

  PETsys Electronics got the second "SEAL OF EXCELLENCE" from the European Commission. The Certificate was delivered by the European Commission, to the project proposal NextPETplus Next generation light sensors, based on Silicon Photomultipliers, for use in Positron Emission Tomography, submitted under the Horizon 2020’s SME instrument phase 2, in October 13, 2016.

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November 2016



• October 2016

  PETsys Electronics SA negotiated a follow-on investment agreement with Portugal Ventures.

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October 2016

• September 2016

  PETsys Electronics was selected by a distinguished Road2WebSummit judging panel to showcase at WebSummit 2016.

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September 2016



• July 2016

  PETsys Electronics got the "SEAL OF EXCELLENCE" from the European Commission. The Certificate was delivered by the European Commission, to the project proposal NextPETplus-Next generation light sensors, based on Silicon Photomultipliers, for use in Positron Emission Tomography and other gamma detection applications, submitted under the Horizon 2020’s SME instrument phase 2, in June 15, 2016.

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July 2016



• April 2016

  PETsys ASIC2 demonstrator project launched with support from Portuguese (PT 2020) and European (ERDF) authorities.

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April 2016

Demonstrator Project TOFPET2 ASIC - High Performance ASIC for Time-of-Flight PET, funded by PETsys Electronics SA, PO Regional Lisboa, PORTUGAL 2020 - Sistema de Incentivos a Investigação e Desenvolvimento Tecnológico (PT 2020) and FEDER (ERDF) - European Comission (Projecto Demonstrador 17665). 

More info: PT 2020 - Demonstrator project

 

 

• December 2015

  PETsys Electronics was selected as one of the Top 25 Award Winners of the European Venture Contest. Over 100 investors and business angels chose the Top 25 emerging companies of the 2015 European Venture Contest at the continent’s biggest venture market place, the European Venture Summit (EVS). 100 European Venture Contest finalists from Europe Unlimited’s 2015 forums were invited to pitch at the EVS and the Top 25 were awarded.

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December 2015



• November 2015

  PETsys TOFPET2 ASIC announced for 2016.

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November 2015

• August 2015

  PETsys is developing a new version of the TOF PET ASIC with improved characteristics (TOFPET2).

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August 2015

• October 2014

  PETsys Silicon Photomultiplier Redout System launched

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October 2014

• September 2014

  A new equity increase operation was concluded as scheduled

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September 2014

• January 2014

  Commercial activity started

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January 2014

• December 2013

  PETsys Electronics SA signed an investment agreement with Portugal Ventures.

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December 2013

• November 2013

  PETsys Systems created a new company – PETsys Electronics SA - to focus on gamma ray Detectors for next generation PET scanners.

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November 2013

From PETsys Systems to PETsys Electronics

• October 2012

  PETsys Systems: Clinical trials done at Timone Hospital in Marseille, France with the 2nd PETsys PET prototype, proved the validity of PETsys PET Technology.

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October 2012

• March 2012

  PETsys Systems: 2nd PETsys PET prototype, at Timone Hospital in Marseille, France got the necessary certification to start clinical trials in breast cancer.

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March 2012

• January 2011

  PETsys Systems: R&D development of SiPM based PET technology started under the framework of a research project funded by the 7th FP of the European Union.

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January 2011

• October 2010

  PETsys Systems: 2nd PETsys PET prototype, now with Ultrasounds technology incorporated, was produced and shipped to the Timone Hospital in Marseille, France for clinical research in breast cancer.

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October 2010

• March 2010

  PETsys Systems: The combination of currently owned PET technology with MR (Magnetic Resonance) started to be developed by PETsys.

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March 2010

• November 2009

  PETsys Systems: First stage of clinical trials have started with the 1st PETsys PET prototype.

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November 2009

• November 2008

  PETsys Systems: Clinical trials preparatory phase started in Portugal with the 1st PETsys PET prototype. A 2nd PETsys PET prototype was assembled to be combined with ultra-sound at the university hospital of Marseille, France (PETsys technology was chosen by CERN).

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November 2008

• February 2008

  PETsys Systems: PETsys – Medical PET Imaging Systems SA was founded, by 5 institutions as a result of an extensive R&D effort, started in 2003 (PET-Mammography projects).

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February 2008

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