An independent company,
commercialising its own technology.
RadLens-Tracer builds gamma-ray imaging instruments and dose tools. Our core technology comes out of two decades of detector research, and the company holds the commercial rights to it.
Incorporated in Seoul, 2026
Two co-founders, covering system engineering and detector physics.
First order secured
Two RadLens C1 units for Incheon Main Customs, for delivery in 2027.
Service contract with KHNP
Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power.
6 patents + PCT
Exclusive commercial rights being transferred to RadLens-Tracer.
“We are not trying to build a better survey meter. We are trying to make radiation something you can point at.”
Junyoung Lee — Founder & CEOWhere the technology comes from
RadLens-Tracer was founded in 2026 to commercialise gamma-ray imaging technology developed over two decades at Hanyang University in Seoul. We say that plainly because it is the reason a new company already has a field-evaluated instrument rather than a prototype.
The company is a separate legal entity. The patents were filed by the university, and exclusive commercial rights are being transferred to RadLens-Tracer under a technology transfer agreement. Product development, manufacturing, sales and support sit with the company. The university is the origin of the science and a licensor, not the operator of the business.
Our two co-founders made that move deliberately: the work had reached the point where the next problems were industrial ones — a sealed enclosure, battery operation, an interface an officer can use on a shift, a supply chain — and those are not problems a laboratory solves.
Patents
Six granted Korean patents and one international application, registered to Hanyang University, with exclusive commercial rights being transferred to RadLens-Tracer. The numbers can be checked on KIPRIS, the Korean Intellectual Property Office’s public search service.
| Number | Title | Granted |
|---|---|---|
| KR 10-2604818 | Calibration method and system for a position-sensitive radiation detector | 2023 |
| KR 10-2527267 | Method for deriving the optimal detector structure for a radionuclide 3D distribution imaging device | 2023 |
| KR 10-2437705 | System and method for estimating the activity of a radiation source located inside an object | 2022 |
| KR 10-2395803 | Radioactive material detection system and method | 2022 |
| KR 10-2250686 | Imaging device and method for measuring the 3D distribution of activation inside nuclear plant concrete structures | 2021 |
| KR 10-2066353 | Method for quantifying radioactivity using a Compton camera | 2020 |
| PCT/KR2021/020360 | System and method for estimating the activity of a radiation source located inside an object | 2021 |
A software copyright registration (C-2022-057210, Compton CT system simulator) covers the simulation toolchain used to design the detector.
Working with us
We are a small team, and we are building. We would like to hear from detector and embedded engineers, reconstruction and computer vision people, and operators who can tell us where an instrument like this would fail.