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Online Seminar | Electronics Meets Surgery, Focused Microwave and RF Energy for medical applications
15 July 2020, 11:30 am–12:30 pm
Professor Chris Hancock will introduce the use of Focused Microwave and RF Energy for surgical procedures. Chris is Founder and Cheif Technology officer of CreoMedical, a company that has successfully transformed Chris's ideas into successful medical products for the treatment of tumors.
This event is free.
Event Information
Open to
- All | UCL staff | UCL students
Availability
- Yes
Cost
- Free
Organiser
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Robert Thompson – Institute of Communications and Connected Systems
Electronics Meets Surgery, Focused Microwave and RF Energy for medical applications
This talk considers how engineering and medicine have come together to successfully move surgical procedures, traditionally performed in an operating theatre, to an outpatient clinic or endoscopy suite. It will discuss how operating and recovery times are significantly reduced, how conditions that would otherwise go untreated can be treated, and how risk of infection is significantly reduced.
Radio frequency signals (RF) used typically in communication systems are utilised and advances in semiconductor technology and material science, innovative engineering techniques and signal processing deliver a unique combination of focused microwave and RF energy through a range of proprietary miniature flexible applicator structures to treat cancerous tissue. The seminar will discuss the techniques used from basic science to product development and products used in hospitals now, including UCH.
ICCS Chair
This session will be chaired by: Professor Izzat Darwazeh, ICCS Director
Attending the seminar
The Seminar will be held on the Zoom platform. Details of how to access Zoom can be found on their website.
Please click this URL to join. https://zoom.us/j/97880431587
Webinar ID: 978 8043 1587
Password: Will be distributed to ICCS members or can be requested by email iccs@ucl.ac.uk
About the Speaker
Professor Chris Hancock
Chief Technology Officer and Founder at Creo Medical Limited
Chris Hancock received the Ph.D. degree in electronic engineering, working on electronic and microwave circuits, from Bangor University, Bangor, U.K., in 1996. From 1997 to 2002, he was a Senior Microwave Engineer with Gyrus Medical Ltd. In 2003, he founded MicroOnclogy Ltd.; which is now Creo Medical Limited, a UK based company with a market value close to £350 million. Creomedical developed Chris’s ideas, based on dynamic impedance-matching techniques and integrated RADAR measurement techniques using Ku band energy, for the treatment of tumors.
Creo’s equipment have been used now for treatment of patients worldwide. In 2009, he was appointed to the chair in Medical Microwave Systems at Bangor University and in 2018 he became a Royal Academy of Engineering Visiting professor at UCL. Chris is a Fellow of the Institute of Physics, a Chartered Physicist, Fellow of the Institute of Engineering and Technology, a Chartered Engineer and a Senior Member of the IEEE. He is a named inventor and lead author on over 300 patents/patent applications and scholarly publications.
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