Project description
Wireless magnetic navigation design for cardiology diagnosis
Magnetic tracking technology is the gold standard for in vivo navigation when line-of-sight is unavailable. It reduces the reliance on radiation imaging and allows for precise instrument tracking within patients. High-accuracy wireless tracking could enhance clinical applications like electrophysiology (EP) mapping and enable new uses, such as capsule endoscopy, which currently lacks anatomical localisation. The ERC-funded Saor Track project will validate a wireless magnetic navigation design for cardiology applications, such as EP mapping. This design integrates with existing technology to accurately localise colon abnormalities, enabling quicker diagnoses. The project will also demonstrate high-accuracy positional navigation in capsule endoscopy for the first time, building on innovations from the ERC Deep Field project.
Objective
Magnetic tracking technology is the gold-standard for in vivo navigation where line-of-sight is not available. Magnetic tracking
reduces dependence on radiation imaging and provides highly accurate tracking of instruments, tools and cameras inside the patient.
However, existing commercial and research solutions are wired.
High-accuracy wireless tracking can transform existing clinical applications of magnetic tracking such as electrophysiology (EP) mapping
of the beating heart by dramatically reducing wire clutter in the OR, and simplifying the clinical workflow. More importantly, wireless tracking can open up new clinical applications where high-accuracy position navigation are not feasible to date, such as in capsule endoscopy. Existing capsules provide video feed to the clinical team without localisation to the patients anatomy. Our wireless position navigation design can seamlessly integrate with existing technology solutions to provide highly accurate localisation of abnormalities within the colon, resulting in more precise and faster diagnosis.
This project builds on ground-breaking innovations from the ERC Deep Field project to demonstrate proof-of-concept pre-clinical validation for our wireless magnetic navigation design in high-value existing applications in cardiology such as EP mapping, as well as demonstrating feasibility of high-accuracy position navigation in capsule endoscopy for the first time.
Fields of science (EuroSciVoc)
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- medical and health sciences basic medicine anatomy and morphology
- engineering and technology electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering electronic engineering sensors optical sensors
- medical and health sciences clinical medicine cardiology
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HORIZON.1.1 - European Research Council (ERC)
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T12 YN60 Cork
Ireland
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