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The overall aim of the project is to investigate the potential of the new dosimeters and to bring them closer toward implementation in clinical workflow... Medical physicists at Aarhus University Hospital and Danish Centre for Particle Therapy have teamed up with optical/material physicists at Department of Physics and Astronomy, AU, in an interdisciplinary collaboration to develop new dose-sensitive materials. The new materials are based on two radiosensitive components integrated in a silicone matrix. One is a so-called radiochromic dye, i.e. a dye which changes color upon irradiation. The other is based on embedded particles exhibiting the phenomenon optically-stimulated luminescence (OSL). Both allow for optical readout and can provide a 3D measurement in high resolution of a given dose distribution. On top of this, the OSL-based material also has the potential of being reused many times.