According to the FDA, a total of 110 medical devices were recalled within the last three years

Every year, numerous companies undergo product recalls due to the unexpected and dangerous failures of their products. For medical companies, these failures have a tendency to cause harm or death for thousands of their product users.

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Non-destructive testing is essential to optimize medical device impacts in saving lives

Non-destructive testing (NDT) is used to thoroughly inspect and test products for its flaws, defects, or discontinuiities, without causing any damage to product's original form. NDT procedures can prevent the costs of time, money, and lives, by detecting defects in company products earlier on during its production and approval process.

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Current forms of NDT with x-ray imaging are not enough

X-ray radiography testing (RT) machines are the most commonly used forms of NDT, yet they cannot find micro-defects of fine pitch. Without an improved resolution, it will be nearly impossible to detect device defects before it is too late.

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Project Goal

Grayink aims to optimize a micro-computed tomography system that integrates an experimental CdTe detector to identify micro-scale defects in catheter development testing.