better outcomes through technology. patient specific qa tools
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Better Outcomes Through Technology
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Patient Specific QA Tools
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Machine QA tools
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Tools for Routine QA
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Tools used for Dosimetry and Comissioning
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Where is Sun Nuclear located?
Sun Nuclear is located in Melbourne, USA
• Coastal city of 550,000
• Space and defense industries including NASA
• 80km from Orlando
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What Does Sun Nuclear do?
• Sun Nuclear Corporation designs, manufactures, distributes, and services radiation measurement instrumentation and support software used primarily in the Medical Physics, Nuclear Medicine, and Environmental Monitoring industries.
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Sun Nuclear Facts• Incorporated 1984• Privately held• Florida “Space Coast” location
30,000 sq. ft. facility• Two Radiation Bunkers
Clinac 2100C, 80 leaf MLC (X: 6,15 MV; e: 6,9,12,15, 18 MeV) Cobalt 60, 2000 Ci
• Medical Physics Dosimetry & QA• US market share leader in Medical Physics QA• 45 worldwide distributors• Household names: PROFILERTM, MapCHECKTM, Daily QATM,
IVDTM
Nuclear Medicine (dose calibrators, multi-channel analyzers) Environmental Radiation (radon monitors)
• Vertically Integrated All R&D, manufacturing, support provided by SNC
• FDA, ISO, CE, CMDCAS registrations
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• Innovation: First commercial QA database c. 1996 First commercial 2D array for IMRT QA c. 2002 First commercial EPID based software dosimetry solution c. 2007
• Involvement: Employees on numerous AAPM task groups Authorship of numerous publications in medical physics journals Host annual QA & Dosimetry Symposium
• Research: Recipient of 2 Federal SBIR awards (Radon & Benchmark Linac Data) Numerous patents awarded and pending Extensive research on detector technology; diodes, ion chambers, film Numerous OEM cooperative partnerships
• Market Penetration: Installed user base >4000 Annual user meeting with >300 guests
Track Record of Success
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Dealer Representation• 42 people
27 countries represented Name, company, country, job at company
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Sun Nuclear Global Presence
• QA market share leader in the US… …but now also market share leader in multiple international markets
2006 2007 2008 2009 2010
International Sales 2006-2010
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Outstanding Customer Support
• Customer support at no charge for life of the product Web support available
• Dedicated ‘Client Solutions’ team ensures quick responses to customer inquiries Strong interface with the Sun Nuclear physics team
• Vertical integration ensures excellent in-house knowledge for ALL products in the SNC product portfolio – no outsourcing
• Dedicated worldwide Product Specialists to provide regional support: Based in Germany, Spain, Brazil, China, and India
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• Annual QA & Dosimetry Symposium Attended by Physicists worldwide to learn about latest
practices and future developments in QA and Dosimetry Speakers are industry leaders in their field
• Webinars Educational webinars on new tools and solutions for QA
& Dosimetry
Education
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Detector Technology
• Sun Nuclear’s objective is simple: To provide the Medical Physics community with a fresh approach to radiation measurement by improving the measurement quality while also streamlining the process.
• Sun Nuclear manufactures radiation therapy quality assurance instruments using both diode and ionization chamber technology. Sun Nuclear chooses a detector type based on the application for which the instrument is intended. The Daily QA 3™ uses both detector types. Applications involving the measurement of steep dose gradients require a small detector if accurate and precise measurements are desired.
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Product Gap Initiative
Started in July 2007
• Electrometer PC Electrometer
• Water tanks 1D Scanner 3D Scanner
• Ion chambers Coming soon…