Medical Devices
The Medical Devices research group consists of electronics, mechanical and physics staff whose research interests encompass four main areas:
- The imaging of the interior of the human body for clinical analysis and medical intervention,
- The sensing of medical signals and the use of signals to improve impaired functions of the human organism,
- The manufacturing of biomedical materials for interventional and assistive technologies,
- The modelling of various aspects of the human body using an anatomically and biophysically based approach.
Key technologies of interest include electromagnetic medical imaging and sensing at low, radio, microwave and millimetre wave frequencies for better and safer diagnosis and treatment; visual sensors for 3D time-of-flight range imaging with application to patient behaviour monitoring; hybrid materials to obtain customisable bioimplants with adjustable structural and functional properties; modelling of human cortex, signal processing of EEG waveforms and clinical monitoring of anaesthesia and computing- and communication-inspired modelling of tumor sensitization and targeting.
Key research projects in this area:
- Fisher and Paykel Healthcare Scholarships (student support)
- Transforming the problem of motion blur into a measurement of velocity in time-of-flight distance imaging
- Vision based system for identifying and tracking mobility aid users
- KiwiNet direct imaging of velocity and distance
- Design of MRI-safe electrodes
- Transforming motion error in time-of-flight range imaging to a high value measurement
- SFTI - Acoustic vector network analyser
- Profile measurement – Callaghan Innovation R&D Fellowship
- MBIE SI Visual sensors
- MBIE Species indentification
- MBIE Hand-held high resolution medical imaging using microwave meta-material lenses
- Portable stroke detectors
- Microwave breast screening
- HRC Towards bone regeneration by developing electroactive hybrid materials