New diagnostic solutions beyond hospital boundaries
In the increasingly diversified landscape of diagnostic imaging, lymphoscintigraphy plays a vital role in visualising lymphatic circulation, with essential applications in fields such as oncology, where it supports sentinel lymph node identification, and lymphology, particularly in the diagnosis and monitoring of lymphoedema.
Yet, despite its clinical relevance, access to this imaging technique remains limited due to the physical and operational constraints of conventional gamma cameras. These systems are typically bulky, expensive, and tied to hospital departments with high-level infrastructure—excluding smaller clinics and limiting mobility.
From this very challenge, Eletech, the lead company of the IDCs and R&D division of Elemaster Group, designed and developed a portable gamma camera, conceived to break logistical barriers and broaden access to functional diagnostics. This device is compact, highly integrated, and fully compliant with international safety standards, enabling new use cases in both centralised and decentralised healthcare environments.
Compact design, clinical impact
Unlike traditional systems, the new gamma camera was engineered with portability and ergonomics as core design pillars. From the outset, the goal was not just to shrink components, but to rethink the architecture to fit real-world clinical scenarios where space and flexibility are often limited.
The result is a device similar in form to a DSLR camera, capable of capturing real-time lymphatic circulation images, thereby reducing reliance on specialised imaging rooms and complex installation requirements.
This redefinition of usability opens new doors: the camera can be deployed in local clinics, ambulatory settings, or specialist centres with limited space and budget, allowing for screening, follow-up and diagnosis in previously inaccessible contexts. In this sense, it becomes not just a device, but an enabler of care decentralisation.
Advanced hardware-software integration for medical-grade performance
What sets this device apart is not only its size, but the engineering depth behind its embedded intelligence. The gamma camera features fully in-house developed electronics, firmware, and sensor integration, providing precise and reliable image acquisition, even in non-ideal environmental conditions.
The embedded architecture is optimised to ensure low energy consumption and operational stability, while maintaining clinical-grade performance. The software platform, compliant with IEC 62304, is modular, secure, and scalable, ensuring future updates can be implemented efficiently and safely.
Thanks to real-time data processing algorithms, the system provides an intuitive user interface, offering clinicians immediate feedback and simplifying the learning curve. This usability factor is especially critical when deploying devices outside of specialist nuclear medicine departments.
Moreover, all development activities followed the ISO 14971 standard for risk management, meaning every design decision was accompanied by risk assessment, traceability and mitigation plans—a best practice that enhances both safety and certification readiness.
From prototype to industrialisation: minimising the gap
Translating innovation into an industrial product often proves to be the critical bottleneck in medtech. Eletech approached this challenge by closely aligning design and production, in collaboration with the manufacturing divisions of Elemaster Group.
The prototyping phase included the design and production of custom PCBs, mechanical integration, and functional validation, supported by a full cycle of pre-compliance tests to assess electromagnetic compatibility, electrical safety, and mechanical resilience.
The advantage of this integrated approach is tangible: it allowed the gamma camera to move from concept to industrial-ready solution in compressed timeframes, while maintaining regulatory alignment and clinical integrity.
This highlights a broader strength in Eletech’s model: by combining R&D with real-world production expertise, the company ensures that even advanced innovations remain certifiable, manufacturable, and ready for scale.
A scalable platform for the future of functional imaging
The development of this portable gamma camera represents more than a one-off innovation—it is a strategic platform.
Its scalability, modular software, and embedded electronics can serve as a foundation for future applications in other functional imaging domains, including neuroimaging, thyroid scans, or even hybrid systems integrating wearable diagnostics.
In an era where healthcare is moving closer to the patient, from hospital to community settings, tools like this redefine what it means to be « diagnostically equipped ». They pave the way for new organisational models, enabling personalised diagnostics and more efficient resource allocation, particularly in underserved regions or during homecare follow-up.
Applied innovation: Eletech’s contribution to next-generation diagnostics
Through this project, Eletech, the lead company of the IDCs and R&D division of Elemaster Group, reinforces its positioning as a partner of choice for high-impact medical innovation.
More than technology alone, the gamma camera for lymphoscintigraphy embodies a methodology: the integration of compliance, design thinking, risk management, and manufacturing foresight.
This is how Eletech transforms vision into reality—offering the medical community not just new tools, but better ways to diagnose, decide and deliver care.