Medical Robotics and Image-Guided Intervention

Postgraduate

In London

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    Postgraduate

  • Location

    London

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Medical Robotics and Image-Guided Intervention are two technology-driven areas of medicine that have experienced tremendous growth and improvement over the last twenty years, partly driven by the surgical aim of progressively less invasive and harmful treatments.This is a multidisciplinary field and is led by three internationally-known departments:

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South Kensington Campus, SW7 2AZ

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About this course

Medical Robotics and Image-Guided Intervention are two technology-driven areas of medicine that have experienced tremendous growth and improvement over the last twenty years, partly driven by the surgical aim of progressively less invasive and harmful treatments. This is a multidisciplinary field and is led by three internationally-known departments: the Hamlyn Centre for Medical Robotics (part of the Institute of Global Health Innovation) the Department of Surgery and Cancer the Department of Computing All teaching and research will take place in the brand new facilities of the Hamlyn Centre. Taught modules include a mixture of engineering and medical topics such as medical robotics and instrumentation, minimally invasive surgery, surgical imaging and optics, image guided intervention, perception and ergonomics. You will spend nine months working on a cutting-edge research project.

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Subjects

  • IT
  • Medical training
  • Medical
  • Image
  • Imaging
  • Surgery
  • Technology

Course programme

Modules shown are for the current academic year, and are subject to change depending on your year of entry.

The taught material consists of five modules, each consisting of 16 lectures:

  • Medical robotics and instrumentation - an introduction to the mechanical principles and design of robots. It will provide an overview of the key technologies and techniques used in robotic surgery
  • Minimally invasive surgery - an introductory level course in the key surgical disciplines, at a level that is accessible to engineering and physical sciences masters’ level students
  • Surgical imaging and optics - medical imaging is providing an increasingly important role in surgical navigation and medical robotics. The principles behind the imaging methods are relatively complex and this course will provide an overview of the different methods in common use. Most surgical imaging is carried out using light, and the use of optical technology in endoscopy will also be described
  • Image guided intervention - an introduction to image-guided intervention. It will run in parallel to the medical imaging module and will outline the common image processing and analysis methods
  • Perception and ergonomics - introducing navigation, surgical planning, visualisation, simulation and ergonomics

As well as the lectures, you will work on a group research project that will be full-time after week seven. This will provide research skills for the main research project in terms two and three.

By the end of the course, you will have:

  • a broad general knowledge of the current technology used within clinical work
  • an interdisciplinary knowledge of working in collaboration with surgeons to develop new technological advances in the field of surgery
  • experience in the methodology and principles of conducting research with application to clinical medicine and surgery
  • the skills required for a successful career within industry, or an academic research position such as a PhD studentship

Medical Robotics and Image-Guided Intervention

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