The world's first total-body PET-CT scanner uExplorer was created through collaboration between United Imaging and America's top molecular imaging team Explorer Consortium. Its aim was to meet the needs of top medical research institutions in the US and other countries. The prototype was completed last year, and it is planned to go on sale in China and the United States at the end of 2018. The uExplorer has been the subject of an online article in Science magazine and was featured on a 2018 cover of the American Journal of Nuclear Medicine. It has already been successfully installed in UC Davis, the world's top research university, where it is currently in the clinical trial stage. It will help pioneering research into cerebrology and new drug development.

The CEO of United Imaging U.S. Subsidiary, Li Hongdi said, "The uExplorer's sensitivity level is 40 times more, while its radiation dosage will be 40 times less, than that of conventional PETs. Its birth will boost the development of low dose child scanning, cancer micrometastasis study, immunotherapy, integration of diagnosis and treatment and other fields, opening a new door for human exploration of the mysteries of life!"


Bold "Innovation Predictions" Made by CEOs from United Imaging Healthcare

During the summit, CEOs of United Imaging introduced the latest products and core technologies from their platforms and made predictions about innovation in the future.

UIH now boasts a fully-fledged system product line ranging from clinical 1.5T MR and 3.0T MR to high-end scientific research 3.0T MR and multimodal PET/MR. In addition, it offers world-leading performance in magnetic field uniformity and magnet gradients. UIH believes that the next step in the development of MR will be greater speed, more practicality, lower sound output, richer clinical data, and higher field strength systems. As a result, UIH will be focusing on the development of advanced 5.0T whole-body MR and infant MR, providing clinicians with high-value bespoke solutions.

In the near future, UIH will launch Photon Counting CT and Sparse Sampling CT scanners, making accurate, quantitative and safe clinical applications a reality. Based on the currently-available CT-linac scanner, UIH will also offer integrated radiotherapy solutions such as RT and MR, broadening the clinical applications of radiotherapy. Based on its uAI platform, UIH will introduce compressive sensing and iterative reconstruction algorithms combined with deep learning to create a fully intelligent "robot" DR product that allows doctors to instantly acquire diagnostic reports simply with the push of a button on the scanner.

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