EURORAD will participate in this project by providing its competences first in the
semiconductor materials based X-ray and Gamma-ray as well as detection systems
development and fabrication for medical, space, environmental and industrial
applications.
EURORAD will participate in organic semiconductor crystals characterization, their
sensitivity, energy response linearity, radiation stability as well as crystals/electrodes
and crystals/substrates interfaces investigations (WP2).
In the frame of WP5 we will participate in the characterisation of the radiation
hardness ( of materials and devices integrated in the i-FLEXIS system. Different
possibilities of system encapsulation and packaging will be also tested. The detector
quantitative performance in terms of X-ray response linearity, sensitivity and stability
in time will be a major characteristics of devices under strong consideration.
EURORAD will be responsible of WP6 realization. We will fabricate 3 prototypes
(demonstrators) for Health diagnostic sensors: Health radiation dosimeter, Bone
density analyser and Breast imaging for sentinel nodes cancer detection. All the
systems will be evaluated in laboratory conditions.
EURORAD, a French SME, is specialized in the development of semiconductor
materials together with their purification and characterization. Based on these
materials Eurorad produces radiation detectors of different types in particular
Cadmium Telluride (CdTe) or Cadmium Zinc Telluride (CdZnTe) sensors. These
detectors are than integrated in various kinds of instruments related to radiation
detection and measurement. EURORAD is at present the only European company able
to produce these materials and one of the world leaders in this domain. The company
has also a very strong experience in the field of electronics devoted to radiation
detectors.
In the field of Medical Instrumentation, Eurorad has built a detection probe as well as
a gamma probe for per-operative lymph node detection.
ANNE KAZANDJIAN EURORAD company manager. PhD in Pharmacy on radio-nuclear
transfer to plants following a nuclear accident. She has since gained international
experience by working in the USA as a manager of Drug Delivery Services and then as
assistant to the director of international strategy at the ORIS-CEA Industries group. She
joined EURORAD in 1993 and is presently the chief Operating Officer.
PAUL SIFFERT Over 40 years of experience in a public laboratory. Involved in the
development of Si, Si(Li), Ge(Li), H.P.GE, Hgl2and CdTe + CZT detectors. He has
published over 100 papers on CdTe: he supervised 30 doctorates, and holds 20 patents
in the field. He has been President of the EMRS and the IUM. He holds several awards:
Czochralski gold metal, IEE, etc.
MALGORZATA SOWINSKA graduated as M. Eng. in Chemistry at the Polytechnical
University of Wroclaw in Poland. She gained her PhD in physical chemistry
(spectroscopy) in 1977 at the same University. She worked there in the fields of
coordination chemistry and fast pulsed optoelectronics as Assistant Professor at the
Institute of Inorganic Chemistry and Metallurgy of Rare Elements. Since December
1989 she works in France as a researcher. She joint EURORAD in 2000 as an R&D
manager. She is author and co-author of numerous scientific papers as well as of few
European patents.
