Image-guided intervention research, enabling minimally-invasive surgery.
The laboratory for Virtual Augmentation for Surgery and Simulation (VASST) is dedicated to the development of systems to facilitate minimally invasive surgical procedures using image guidance. We have the capability to develop software and hardware to support systems for image-guided surgical procedures; to build organ phantoms for use in procedure simulation and training; and to perform sophisticated analysis of images (segmentation, registration, feature extraction) from multiple imaging modalities including MRI, CT, ultrasound, video and histology.
3D printing, 3D histology, ultrasound imaging, image processing, 3D CT scanning, simulated organ design (imaging phantoms), visualization systems for interventional guidance, image processing and analysis, surgical navigation systems
- Healthcare and social services
- Life sciences, pharmaceuticals and medical equipment
- Professional and technical services (including legal services, architecture, engineering)
Specialized labs and equipment
| Equipment | Function |
|---|---|
| Stratasys Objet30 3D Printer | 3D plastic printer. Rapid prototyping of devices from SolidWorks or similar files. |
| Philips iE33 3D Ultrasound system | Trans-esophageal ultrasounds system with 2D and 3D capabilities. |
| EleVision™ IR Platform | VisionSense 3D micro-endoscopy system. |
| Ultrasonix diagnostic ultrasound systems | |
| Medtronic O-Arm | Portable cone-beam CT scanner. |
| NVIDIA Tesla GPU Clusters | High performance computing for highly parallelizable problems. |
| CryoViz 3D digital histology system | Enables frozen tissue samples up to the size of a whole mouse to be slices and digitized as a high resolution 3D volume in both bright field and fluorescence modes. |
| Cardiac flow pump | |
| MRI-compatible Dynamic Multimodality Heart Phantom | Tissue-equivalent beating heart phantom that is compatible with MR, CT and Ultrasound. |
Private and public sector research partners
- NeoChord Inc.
- Northern Digital Inc.
Additional information
| Title | URL |
|---|---|
| 3D Technology Future of Heart Treatments | http://www.bluetoad.com/publication/?i=61710 |