A panoramic picture of the Ultrasurge team during the kickoff meeting Jan 2019

Welcome to Ultrasurge

Ultrasurge is a 5-year programme investigating ultrasound in surgery. Supported by a programme grant from EPSRC for over £6m in funding, Ultrasurge looks into a series of interelated themes around the effect of ultrasound on tissue, the miniaturisation of ultrasound transducers, and using external robots to direct ultrasound tipped robot tentacles to the surgery site within the body.

A 3D printed soft polymer artery is suspended in a cradle

Phantom Arteries

The Leeds team are 3D printing artery models

Professor Margaret Lucas prepares to slay the chieftain of the pudding race

Prof Lucas Recognised by the RSE and IET

Prof Lucas Recognised by the RSE and IET

A photo of the petrous apex exhibit at an IUS 2019 public engagement event. On a table is a Phacon head used to train surgeons to carry out operations, the laptop that gives different viewing angles, and the ultrasound needle developed to do biopsy of the petrous apex.

IUS 2019

At IEEE IUS 2019, we demonstrated a bone biopsy system to 600 schoolchildren

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What's Going On

  • 16 Apr

    Phantom Arteries

    In order to train robotic systems we need to create models that mimic real-life, like arteries within organs.
  • 25 Feb

    Nicola Fenu Piezo 2021

    Nicola Fenu's conference paper given at Piezo 2021: High power Characterisation of PIC 181 Piezoceramic and Mn:PIN PMN PT Piezocrystal Langevin Transducers for Robotic Minimally Invasive Surgery
  • 18 Jan

    RSE and IET

    Prof Margaret Lucas was elected a Fellow of the RSE, awarded the IET Achievement Medal for Ultrasonic Technology, and has become the new Dean of Research for the College of Science and Engineering at the University of Glasgow.
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