RADI-CAL

Development of an innovative, accurate, monolithic 2D CVD Diamond based radiation dosimetry system for conformal radiotherapy solutions

Coordinatore	SPECTRUM TELECOM INSTALLATIONS LTD    more  Organization address address: Woodfield, Cappagh Road 6 city: BARNA, CO GALWAY contact info Titolo: Mr Nome: Billy Cognome: CAREY Email: send email Telefono: -91562179 Fax: -91562190
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

#	participant	country	role	EC contrib. [€]
1	SPECTRUM TELECOM INSTALLATIONS LTD  Organization address address: Woodfield, Cappagh Road 6 city: BARNA, CO GALWAY contact info Titolo: Mr Nome: Billy Cognome: CAREY Email: send email Telefono: -91562179 Fax: -91562190	IE (BARNA, CO GALWAY)	coordinator	0.00
2	DIAMOND MATERIALS GMBH  Organization address address: Tullastrasse 72 city: FREIBURG contact info Titolo: Dr Nome: Eckhard Cognome: WOERNER Email: send email Telefono: -7616006505 Fax: -7616006504	DE (FREIBURG)	participant	0.00
3	ETUDES ET PRODUCTIONS SCHLUMBERGER  Organization address address: rue Saint Dominique 42 city: PARIS contact info Titolo: Mr Nome: Richard Cognome: SAENGER Email: send email Telefono: -145372816 Fax: -146313787	FR (PARIS)	participant	0.00
4	FRAUNHOFER-GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FOERDERUNG DER ANGEWANDTEN FORSCHUNG E.V  Organization address address: Hansastrasse 27C city: MUENCHEN contact info Titolo: Ms. Nome: Andrea Cognome: ZEUMANN Email: send email Telefono: -12052767 Fax: -1205772740	DE (MUENCHEN)	participant	0.00
5	MAGYAR TUDOMANYOS AKADEMIA ATOMMAGKUTATO INTEZETE  Organization address address: BEM TER 18/C city: DEBRECEN contact info Titolo: Mr Nome: Jozsef Cognome: MOLNAR Email: send email Telefono: -52509216 Fax: -52416145	HU (DEBRECEN)	participant	0.00
6	PTW-FREIBURG PHYSIKALISCH-TECHNISCHE WERKSTATTEN DR. PYCHLAU GMBH  Organization address address: LORRACHER STRASSE 7 city: FREIBURG contact info Titolo: Dr Nome: Pychlau Cognome: CHRISTIAN Email: send email Telefono: -7614905517 Fax: -7614905521	DE (FREIBURG)	participant	0.00
7	SEMICON SP. Z.O.O.  Organization address address: ZWOLENSKA 43/43A city: WARSAW contact info Titolo: Ms. Nome: Malgorzata Cognome: WIERZBICKA Email: send email Telefono: -226157323 Fax: -226157327	PL (WARSAW)	participant	0.00
8	THE UK INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS RESEARCH INSTITUTE LIMITED  Organization address address: MIDDLE ASTON HOUSE city: OXFORDSHIRE contact info Titolo: Mr Nome: John Cognome: DANVERS Email: send email Telefono: -8450947636 Fax: -1664501439	UK (OXFORDSHIRE)	participant	0.00
9	UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI FIRENZE  Organization address address: Piazza San Marco 4 city: FLORENCE contact info Titolo: Professor Nome: Egido Cognome: LANDI DEGLINNOCENTI Email: send email Telefono: -552307619 Fax: -55224154	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.