Risø National Laboratory, Denmark is a national laboratory under the Danish Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation. Risoe has approximately 800 employees, including app. 400 scientists, app. 65 Ph.D. students, and app. 140 students. It carries out research in science and technology, providing Danish society new opportunities for technological development. Among others, Risø has Departments for Materials Research, Optics and Plasma Research (OPL), and Polymers with PhD and post-doctorate programmes. Risoe participates in a large number of EU programmes as ordinary partner or co-ordinator.
In the NANO UB-SOURCES project, employees from the OPL department will be involved. This department has 75 staff members including 45 staff members in lasers and optics. The research group from the OPL department that will be involved is the OCT group. This group consists of 3 staff members, 2 technicians, 4 graduate students, and a number of under-graduate students.
The competencies of the OCT group include light-tissue interaction in optical coherence tomography (OCT) and Doppler OCT, development and characterization of light sources for OCT including broad bandwidth PCF-based sources and frequency swept sources, OCT system design and development including Doppler OCT systems, OCT image processing, and clinical studies of OCT in dermatology.
The main motivation of Risø to participate in the NANO UB-SOURCES project is to use this expertise to develop ultrahigh resolution OCT equipment that will enable a significant improvement in early skin cancer diagnosis. Furthermore, the link with manufacturing companies of essential components for OCT offers unique opportunities in terms of research and innovation.
