Research Interest
Development of a prototype clinical HIFU device for the treatment of abdominal tumours, through the rib cage.
GR ter Haar, R Symonds-Tayler, I Rivens, in collaboration with N Saffari University College, London,
Source of funding: EPSRC
The 256-channel phased array generator - has now been delivered tested, debugged and characterised. Matlab code has been written to control the LTE and to test, measure and analyse its performance. This code is the basis of the therapy user control interface. An electronic interface for our 48-element bowl transducer has been built and initial testing performed.
Prototype clinical device: drive electronics.
Research Interests
- Development of a prototype clinical HIFU device for the treatment of abdominal tumours, through the rib cage.
- Acoustic and thermal modelling
- Transducer modelling
- Hybrid ultrasound and Magnetic Resonance (MR) imaging
- HIFU Quality assurance
- Focused ultrasound surgery: HIFU induced effects on the vasculature
- Assessment of the safety and efficiency of microbubble exposure in diagnostic and therapeutic ultrasound
- Tissue characterisation for HIFU treatments
Therapy Ultrasound Team
The main goal of the Therapy Ultrasound team’s research is to develop high-intensity focused ultrasound surgery (HIFU) to the point at which it becomes a useful clinical tool for the treatment of appropriate soft-tissue tumours.
