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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…


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