The project

The i-RASE project aim to design, build, test and implement the 1st on-the-fly photon-by-photon radiation detector with transformational impact potential on photonics for medical imaging, industrial inspection, scientific space instrumentation, environmental monitoring, and much more. 

We will develop physics-inspired artificial neural networks (ANN) for comprehensive sensor signal processing (SP) and real-time (RT) measurement of radiation interactions, pioneering its compaction in an ultimate vision for SP embedded in hardware (HW) as an "all-in-one" system-in-package (SIP) for cost- and energy-efficient radiation detection, intelligent output of radiation data with unprecedented accuracy and speed. 

With the aim complying our intelligent SIP with existing regulations/standard, a new set of challenges arises, which calls for a new approach to photonics, involving trans-disciplinary and sectoral knowledge. 

Aligned with these demanding needs, the i-RASE project brings together some of the world's leading researchers and companies in photonics, detector physics and signal processing, ANN, and digital HW design in a high-risk and high-gain research project with ambition of founding a new paradigm for radiation detection intelligence.