Projecten
Stralingfaciliteitsnetwerk voor het onderzoeken van effecten voor industrie en onderzoek KU Leuven
New applications in the industrial sectors of space, automotive, IoT, nuclear dismantling and civil applications, medical and accelerators among others require innovative radiation testing methodologies. As well, for coping with the industrial demand and market timelines, streamlined and coordinated testing becomes highly necessary.
Although punctual exceptions exist, Europe does not count with a coordinated network of cost-effective ...
Akoestische markers voor verbeterde remote sensing van stralingsdoses KU Leuven
Approximately 50% of all cancer patients receive radiation therapy as part of their treatment. The aim is hereby to maximise tumor irradiation and to minimize healthy tissue irradiation. This implies a need for appropriate dosimetry strategies that can effectively measure the actual radiation dose imparted on the tumor. However, state-of-the-art dosimetry cannot quantify the dose distribution in (and around) the tumor, hereby inhibiting the ...
Nanoschaal Verbeterde karakterisering van zonne-selectieve coatings KU Leuven
Optical coatings are commonly deposited over large areas on different substrates: glass, metals (steel, aluminium...) or polymeric foils (PET...). Production processes involve normally large machinery including many times roll-to-roll processes to deposit multilayers over several square meters of substrates. However, properties of these coatings depend strongly on nanometric properties: composition, crystallography, nanostructure, roughness, ...
SiC-composietbekledingen: optimalisatie van LWR-prestaties voor nominale en ongevalsomstandigheden KU Leuven
The Fukushima Daiichi event in 2011 demonstrated the need for enhanced nuclear energy safety, becoming a major driving force for global investments in accident-tolerant fuels (ATFs) over the past decade. Candidate ATF cladding material concepts that are being developed in replacement of the standard zirconium-based alloy (zircaloy) fuel cladding materials used in light water reactors (LWRs) must outperform commercial zircaloys under nominal ...
triboREMEDY Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Environmental remediation for safeguarding human health is difficult. Effective processes enabling scalable operability are lacking. triboREMEDY aims at solving this impasse by providing the foundational steps towards the novel technology called “tribolysis” for safe, controlled, and efficient degradation of hazardous chemicals and effective inactivation of the pathogens. The scientific and technological breakthrough of ...
Stralingsrisicobeoordeling voor nadelige effecten van medische blootstelling tijdens de behandeling van patiënten met lymfoom of hersentumoren Universiteit Gent
Stralings- en betrouwbaarheidsuitdagingen voor elektronica gebruikt in de ruimte, luchtvaartelektronica, op de grond en bij versnellers KU Leuven
Reliability and radiation damage issues have a long and important history in the domain of satellites and space missions. Qualification standards were established and expertise was built up in space agencies (ESA), supporting institutes and organizations (CNES, DLR, etc.) as well as universities and specialized companies. During recent years, radiation concerns are gaining attention also in aviation, automotive, medical and other industrial ...
Stralingsband Omgevingsindicatoren voor de veiligheid van ruimteactiva KU Leuven
The SafeSpace project aims at advancing space weather nowcasting and forecasting capabilities and, consequently, at contributing to the safety of space assets through the transition of powerful tools from research to operations (R2O). This will be achieved through the synergy of five well-established space weather models (CNRS/CDPP solar disturbance propagation tool, KULeuven EUHFORIA CME evolution model, ONERA Neural Network tool, IASB ...
Gezondheidseffecten van cardiale fluoroscopie en moderne radiotherapie bij pediatrie KU Leuven
The increasing use of radiation-associated diagnostic and therapeutic procedures have contributed to the improvements of early diagnosis and survival of paediatric patients. While benefits to the patient outweigh the radiation associated risk, the late effects of exposure of children are particularly important to understand in populations with increased survival.
The HARMONIC project builds on close collaboration between scientific and ...