Better Outcomes Through Technology
Patient Specific QA Tools
Machine QA tools
Tools for Routine QA
Tools used for Dosimetry and Comissioning
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
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.
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
• 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
Dealer Representation• 42 people
27 countries represented Name, company, country, job at company
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
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
• 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
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.
Product Gap Initiative
Started in July 2007
• Electrometer PC Electrometer
• Water tanks 1D Scanner 3D Scanner
• Ion chambers Coming soon…