History of AION and Medical Imaging
The timeline of key events that have shaped AION's vision and strategic direction:
| 1942 | Austrian doctor, Karl Theodore Dussik publishes the first paper on ultrasound as a possible diagnostic tool |
| 1950s | Porous silicon first discovered by Arthur & Ingeborg Uhlir at Bell Labs, USA |
| 1958 | The first positron emission tomography (PET) machine developed |
| 1972 | The development of the computerized axial tomography (CAT) scanner |
| 1974 | The first low quality magnetic resonance (MR) images are produced |
| 1995 | Prof. Leigh Canham discovers porous silicon is biocompatible and biodegradable at the former UK Defence Evaluation and Research Agency |
| 1999 | The first SPECT/CT system was commercialized by GE Healthcare |
| 2001 | GE Healthcare launched the first commercially available PET/CT |
| 2005 | AION Diagnostics modifies porous silicon and discovers its unique imaging properties |
| 2006 | AION develops an imaging portfolio of products based on its modified porous silicon platform (mpSi™) |
