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One of South Korea鈥檚 largest companies is doubling-down on its investment to advance medical imaging technology.

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Telecommunications company increased its stake in Israel-based with an additional $20 million equity investment, the medical imaging technology company announced Thursday. This follows SK鈥檚 $5 million investment made in 2019, , CEO of Nanox, told 萝莉视频 News.

Although Nanox started in 2012, the company is attracting significant funds in a short period of time. The SK investment comes less than six months after Nanox鈥檚 , led by Taiwan-based technology manufacturing giant . To date, Nanox has raised $80 million, according to the company.

As part of the new investment, SK鈥檚 CEO Jung Ho Park will join Nanox鈥檚 board of directors.

鈥淲e see Nanox as one of the most promising companies to make a real difference for early detection of disease and a higher standard of care to the humankind,鈥� Park said in a written statement.

Nanox was formed by a group of former Sony engineers focused on nanotechnology, intending to utilize that technology to solve the problem of early detection imaging in health care, Poliakine said.

It aims to 鈥渄emocratize health care鈥� by offering a 鈥渄igital camera for the full body鈥� among its range of medical imaging services that operate on a pay-per-scan business model and include online radiology diagnostics and AI decision assistive algorithms implementation, he said.

鈥淲e are like the LED of X-rays, and our technology is utilized on a small chip, so we can replace the hot cathode method invented 125 years ago,鈥� he said. 鈥淲hat we have done is implement nanotechnology in an effectively controlled X-ray stream, designated to exact the procedure as well as make it low cost and accessible.鈥�

A traditional scan in the United States costs an average of $3,000, while globally, that average is $300, Poliakine said. Nanox is charging $30 per scan.

鈥淲e are not trying to be altruistic, but the cost of technology has jumped so much that we put in that price point to increase accessibility,鈥� he added. 鈥淚t is important to push forward health care in a more uniform way and to break down the walls between rich and poor countries.鈥�

SK has decided to deploy 2,500 scanners to enable this service, while Nanox plans to establish a wholly owned Korean subsidiary to scale up production on the Nanox X-ray source semiconductor in order t0 get 15,000 units out to physicians by next year, Poliakine said.

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