Ultrasonics in medicine and surgery
Prof Sandy Cochran, Prof Margaret Lucas, Dr Helen Mulvana, Dr Paul Prentice
We collaborate with clinicians and medical device companies to develop surgical devices for cutting biological tissues, producing multi-modal ingestible pills that include ultrasound imaging, and researching acoutically controlled bubble collapse to improve drug delivery.
The ultrasonic cutting tools can deliver precise and accurate cuts while controlling temperature to minimise the zone of cell death around the cut site and hence aid post-operative recovery.
The Sonopill Programme is a £6M EPSRC programme grant across four universities that is putting ultrasound imaging and other sensing modalities into a wireless, ingestible pill.
In the Cavitation Lab, the team are seeking to understand and control the process of forming and collapsing bubbles in liquids through the use of acoustic waves with the potential to improve drug delivery.