RADI-CAL
Development of an innovative, accurate, monolithic 2D CVD Diamond based radiation dosimetry system for conformal radiotherapy solutions
| Coordinatore | SPECTRUM TELECOM INSTALLATIONS LTD
Organization address
address: Woodfield, Cappagh Road 6 contact info |
| Nazionalità Coordinatore | Ireland [IE] |
| Totale costo | 1˙467˙609 € |
| EC contributo | 1˙084˙206 € |
| Programma | FP7-SME
Specific Programme "Capacities": Research for the benefit of SMEs |
| Code Call | FP7-SME-2008-1 |
| Funding Scheme | BSG-SME |
| Anno di inizio | 2009 |
| Periodo (anno-mese-giorno) | 2009-02-01 - 2011-01-31 |
Partecipanti
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|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |
SPECTRUM TELECOM INSTALLATIONS LTD
Organization address
address: Woodfield, Cappagh Road 6 contact info |
IE (BARNA, CO GALWAY) | coordinator | 0.00 |
| 2 |
DIAMOND MATERIALS GMBH
Organization address
address: Tullastrasse 72 contact info |
DE (FREIBURG) | participant | 0.00 |
| 3 |
ETUDES ET PRODUCTIONS SCHLUMBERGER
Organization address
address: rue Saint Dominique 42 contact info |
FR (PARIS) | participant | 0.00 |
| 4 |
FRAUNHOFER-GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FOERDERUNG DER ANGEWANDTEN FORSCHUNG E.V
Organization address
address: Hansastrasse 27C contact info |
DE (MUENCHEN) | participant | 0.00 |
| 5 |
MAGYAR TUDOMANYOS AKADEMIA ATOMMAGKUTATO INTEZETE
Organization address
address: BEM TER 18/C contact info |
HU (DEBRECEN) | participant | 0.00 |
| 6 |
PTW-FREIBURG PHYSIKALISCH-TECHNISCHE WERKSTATTEN DR. PYCHLAU GMBH
Organization address
address: LORRACHER STRASSE 7 contact info |
DE (FREIBURG) | participant | 0.00 |
| 7 |
SEMICON SP. Z.O.O.
Organization address
address: ZWOLENSKA 43/43A contact info |
PL (WARSAW) | participant | 0.00 |
| 8 |
THE UK INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS RESEARCH INSTITUTE LIMITED
Organization address
address: MIDDLE ASTON HOUSE contact info |
UK (OXFORDSHIRE) | participant | 0.00 |
| 9 |
UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI FIRENZE
Organization address
address: Piazza San Marco 4 contact info |
IT (FLORENCE) | participant | 0.00 |
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Obiettivo del progetto (Objective)
Cancer is responsible for 25% of all deaths in Europe and is the biggest killer of people aged 45-64 and 1 in 3 EU citizens can expect to deal with a cancer episode in their lifetime. The cost of treatment in Europe is over 50 billion and fighting the disease is a major EU priority. Radiotherapy is in the most used treatment and recent advances such as IMRT and other conformal radiotherapy solutions are significantly improving treatment success rates. However, existing dosimetry techniques are not capable of delivering the high resolution, tissue equivalence and high speed measurements required for IMRT calibration. This leads to lengthy set-up times, seriously limiting the number of patients that can be treated. Radi-Cal will look to build on recent breakthroughs in CVD diamond technology (realised with EC support) and develop an innovative, high resolution, monolithic 2D CVD diamond array based dosimeter which will deliver the levels of performance required by IMRT and other conformal radiotherapy solutions whilst reducing calibration and set-up time by a factor of 7, thereby allowing more patients access to conformal radiotherapy which will significantly improve treatment success rates. The science and technology required to do this will be challenging, however our consortium comprises some of Europe's leading research and industrial companies. Our innovations are in CVD diamond structure and contacts for a 2D sensor; 2D array sensor fabrication and radiation shielding; ultra-low 2D array readout electronics. The market potential for such a product is over 130 million. Although European SMEs dominate the market for radiotherapy dosimetry systems this situation is being seriously threatened by large non-EU enterprises such as Varian, who are now targeting dosimetry. As European SMEs, we urgently need to beat our competition to an IMRT dosimetry solution to protect our market and enable us to compete against internationally.