04 - "VIRTUOSO: A virtual platform to enable precision vascular surgery"
Topic of the webinar:
VIRTUOSO: A virtual platform to enable precision vascular surgery
Panelist:
Vanessa is a Professor of Healthcare Engineering at UCL and leads an internationally recognised cardiovascular engineering group as well as the vascular engineering platform at the Wellcome/EPSRC Centre for Interventional and Surgical Sciences, at UCL. Vanessa is leading ground-breaking work to make 'precision vascular surgery' a reality and collaborates with many hospitals, including Barts and the Royal Free in London, as well as many patient groups. Vanessa is currently the PI for the ‘VIRTUOSO’ project, a virtual platform to enable precision vascular surgery, funded by the British Heart Foundation through a prestigious New Horizons grant. She is also Vice-Dean for Equality, Diversity and Inclusion.
Abstract
In this talk, we present a unique translational platform to enable precision vascular surgery (VIRTUOSO), combining state of the art in vivo imaging, in silico (simulation) tools and in vitro testing, in order to accurately quantify the haemodynamics of complex vascular pathologies, thereby informing individual treatment planning.
To demonstrate the potential of this technology -which is entirely generalisable to other (cardio) vascular pathologies-, we will use a complex and highly patient specific condition, chronic Type-B aortic dissection as an exemplar.
We demonstrate how we use clinical data to build advanced patient-specific computational models of the pathology as well as 3D printed phantoms for experimental testing and validation on a unique and personalisable physical platform for haemodynamic testing, overcoming thus major obstacles for clinical and industrial translation.
