Radiation Monitoring Devices, Inc. (RMD) was founded in 1974 to pursue the development of cadmium telluride (CdTe) radiation detectors. Throughout its history, RMD has been recognized as a national leader in the specialized fields of radiation detector materials, nuclear instrumentation, and custom detector applications. Since the late 1970's, RMD has been an active participant in the federal SBIR program. We strongly support and encourage the benefits to the general population that can be derived from the resulting technologies.

     Historically, RMD has drawn its employees from very diverse cultural, educational, and disciplinary backgrounds, believing that the resulting diversity would encourage creativity, academic rigor and innovation. The current staff at RMD comes from a variety of academic backgrounds and disciplines, with many at the graduate level. Several of our researchers have been invited speakers and session chairmen at professional symposia. RMD is an active member of the research community and encourages its staff to foster alliances with others in the field, both research and commercial. Further based on our core beliefs, we willingly share our findings and expertise, as evidenced by over 150 publications in various journals and active collaborations with both academic and private organizations.

     RMD's products and innovations span the fields of science, medicine and industry. The core technology on which the company was founded is the CdTe detector and this remains a significant part of our commercial operation. Funded in part by SBIR, RMD developed and commercialized The Inspector® Lead Paint Analyzer, which employs a small CdTe detector to quickly make onsite determinations. Similarly based on CdTe, RMD is an OEM supplier of a surgical probe system, The Navigator®, to help physicians locate radiolabeled cancerous tissue during surgery.

     In its current research activities, RMD maintains multiple programs focused on semiconductor detector materials, scintillator screens, Si avalanche photodiodes (APDs) and nuclear instrumentation.

     Responding to the medical imaging community's desire for more versatile, all solid-state designs, we are working on both semiconductor and scintillator solutions for future generations of digital radiographic systems.

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