Silveray secures £4m funding boost for flexible X-ray solution

Silveray will use the funding to help launch its first product next year, which is based on novel semiconductor technology.

According to the company, the first flexible digital X-ray detector will be aimed at industrial radiography applications, where it can be wrapped around pipes and fed into tight spaces to check for corrosion and weld defects. Digital images will be generated at the point of use, without the film being sent for chemical processing.

The technology also has the potential to transform medical imaging, such as in a flexible mammography detector that could be shaped around a breast without the need for uncomfortable compression. Similarly, radiotherapy patients undergoing Gamma Knife treatment could be fitted with a bespoke skull cap offering real-time monitoring of the treatment beam.

Silveray said its approach involves the use of nanoparticle-based X-ray conversion material, which is produced as a semiconductor ink and then deposited onto a pixel backplane. The electronics layer translates the signal from incoming X-rays into a digital image.