Excillum acquires Exciscope, the leader in high contrast, sub-micron resolution, and high-speed 3D X-ray imaging. Excillum gets access to Exciscope’s intellectual property, X-ray system development experience, and biomedical imaging application expertise. In addition, a cutting-edge X-ray system that can demonstrate how the Excillum MetalJet X-ray sources enable laboratory-based phase-contrast imaging at extreme resolution and speed is now available on-site. Excillum is on a mission to enable new science, enhance manufacturing and improve medicine. Our ability to improve medicine is now strengthened by the acquisition of Exciscope.
- Digital histology & pathology promise faster and more accurate diagnosis and treatment to patients across the world, and the key capability required in such systems is an extreme brightness X-ray source.
- Excillum strategic focus remains: to provide X-ray sources that make our customer’s systems deliver the highest resolution or speed with world-leading stability and reliability.
- Excillum strengthens its ability to support all its customers with X-ray source integration and system design.
Professor Hans Hertz, co-founder of Exciscope, states: “I have long recognized the potential of high-speed and digitalized soft-tissue analysis with extreme resolution based on propagation-based phase-contrast X-ray imaging. Such unique system capability is fundamentally dependent on Excillum’s MetalJet X-ray source. As the commercialization time extends, this promising capability has its natural home at Excillum where it also can support other system makers’ development efforts.”
“We will ensure that existing customers can continue to benefit from the Exciscope Polaris capabilities. By acquiring Exciscope we further grow our X-ray imaging application understanding and our integration & system design experience, thereby strengthening our ability to support customers and OEM partners with X-ray source integration. Also, with our combined expertise we are ready to help accelerate our customers’ plans to bring cutting-edge pathology & histology X-ray systems to the medical market”, concludes David Lindblom, CEO at Excillum.
David Lindblom, CEO Excillum
For further information:
David Lindblom, CEO Excillum
david.lindblom@excillum.com
About Exciscope
Exciscope is the leader in high contrast, sub-micron resolution, and high-speed 3D X-ray imaging. The company has developed the Polaris system – a complete lab solution for phase-contrast tomography. A spin-off from the Biomedical & X-ray Physics division at the KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Sweden, Exciscope’s vision is to provide world-leading phase-contrast imaging solutions in biomedical research and in vitro diagnostics. exciscope.com
Published: July 8, 2025
