Hamamatsu Photonics

Hamamatsu Photonics, based in Hamamatsu, Japan, and listed as 6965.T, is the photonics company behind the NanoZoomer slide scanners and the photodetectors inside most PET scanners. Its NanoZoomer S360 and S60 whole-slide scanners serve digital pathology, and its silicon photomultipliers and photomultiplier tubes sit inside PET/CT and SPECT systems from many manufacturers. Nuclide links it to whole-slide scanners and image management and to nuclear medicine and total-body PET hardware. Its position as a component supplier means that advances in detector sensitivity reach the whole imaging market through it. Whether that quiet role is recognised when total-body PET costs are debated is the fair question.