Carbon Fiber
The Guardian Barrier of the Mammography
Carbon fiber, also known as black gold, looks as soft as silk, but is as solid as a rock. Due to excellent mechanical properties and advanced composite properties, it has become a special material for industries with strict standards such as the aerospace and high-end medical industries. United Imaging Healthcare's mammography selects carbon fiber panels used for aerospace, which are 9 times stronger than steel and can effectively protect the internal structure of the detector. At the same time, carbon fiber has excellent X-ray penetrability without refraction, which can reduce radiation significantly, produce clearer, more uniform, artifact-free breast images, and bring new possibilities for high-definition low-dose breast scanning.
Flickering Crystals
The Sharp Crystal Eye of PET/CT
Pure, transparent, flickering crystals are the smallest and the most important core unit to determine image resolution in PET/CT. A small crystal has to go through many complex processes. After being forged at a high temperature of 2,100 degrees, it's cut by a high-precision machine, with the positive and negative errors controlled within 0.01 mm. Then, it's repeatedly polished by the craftsman, fitted with a reflective coating, and put through Slab-Sandwich-Slice technology and fine polishing. As a result, the smallest PET/CT crystal emerges. Every United Imaging Healthcare PET/CT detector has hundreds of thousands of crystals. They are like eyes exploring the microcosms of a human body, capturing high-energy rays or particles that are difficult for the naked eye to see, producing amazingly high-definition PET images, and helping medical staff pinpoint tiny lesions hidden in corners.
"Gold Armor" of Linear Accelerators
Tungsten, the metal with the highest melting point on the earth, is often used to make rocket nozzles and armor-piercing bullet cores for weapons. The multi-blade optical grating made of compact and hard tungsten carbide blades is the core component of United Imaging Healthcare's radiotherapy linear accelerator. Each layer of blades must undergo compact forging and pressing tens of thousands of times until reaching an accuracy of 0.01 mm in flatness. In a smooth mechanical movement, the two rows of blades cross and come in contact with each other according to the established trajectory, and form a specific shape like a hard moving armor that firmly contains the rays for radiotherapy. It controls the direction of these rays under the precise spacing of 8um, providing accurate and efficient radiotherapy.