A University of Waterloo Start “Invaluable” for KA Imaging It all started with a handshake. “We shook on it, and that’s how the game began,” said Dr. Karim S. Karim, CTO and co-founder of KA Imaging, about his partnership with Amol Karnick (CEO). “It was just a...
Any professional who works in Emergency Rooms and Intensive Care Units knows that mobile imaging can be a challenge. For various reasons, the mobile X-ray images may not be as good as needed, increasing the financial burden when extra resources are needed to confirm the...
"'You are the only girl in the class!' The sentence I heard a lot and told myself a lot!Hi! I am Sahar Adnani, and I am working in the field of X-ray detectors for medical/industrial imaging. I love fixing things and finding the root cause...
InnoCare Optoelectronics Corp (睿生光電) is the official local distributor Waterloo, Feb 03 2022 - KA Imaging’s portable single exposure dual-energy X-ray detector can now be sold in the Taiwan market. The Taiwan Food and Drug Administration has licensed the Reveal 35C detector as a Second Level...
Applications Specialist Jay Potipcoe has prepared a brief demonstration of Discover Med, the Reveal 35C’s DICOM software. Reveal™ 35C is a single exposure, portable, digital dual-energy subtraction (DES) X-ray detector that overcomes previous DES technical limitations. This detector raised the possibility of a DES retrofit in...
Showcasing Emerging Technologies for Low-Resource Settings Waterloo, Ont. (September 07, 2021) KA Imaging’s Reveal™ 35C has been included in the World Health Organization’s (WHO) compendium of innovative health technologies for low-resource settings, launched August 31, 2021. This compilation features emerging technologies assessed and found to potentially improve health...
Our CTO Karim S. Karim was one of the speakers on the sidelines of the 2021 Islamic Development Bank Group Annual Meeting in Uzbekistan. Dr. Karim introduced Reveal 35C as a solution for low and middle-income countries to screen for Covid-19 and other infectious diseases...
Reveal™ 35C’s detective quantum efficiency (DQE) is as high as 75%, and this higher DQE requires less radiation to produce a better image. DE imaging showed improvement in the 2013 study by an average factor of 4.7 compared to conventional X-rays without increasing image acquisition dose....
KA Imaging’s Flat Panel Sight™ has received a Canadian Medical Device Licence from Health Canada. With the licence, the digital X-ray detector can be officially sold in Canada. Among its main features, Sight™ can be called featherweight, as it weighs only 2.7 kilos in its 38...
The Discovery In 1895, German physicist Wilhelm Röntgen was studying electron beams when he made an accidental discovery4. He noticed that when he covered a Crookes tube (an early vacuum tube that produces electron beams) with cardboard, a faint glow came from a screen painted with...