EPSRC UK IMAGE-GUIDED THERAPIES NETWORK+

图像引导治疗（IGT）结合了模拟和建模、成像和传感、计算、机器人技术以及可视化，以改善手术器械和聚焦能量输送对病理组织的定位和靶向。随着微创介入的广泛接受，IGT对于提高外科医生的能力和推进介入能力的前沿越来越重要。将IGT创新转化为临床实践依赖于有效的协作、知识传播和共享，因为IGT是一个跨学科和跨模式的领域，医生、物理学家、工程师和计算机科学家共同努力构建解决方案。在临床实践中部署此类解决方案依赖于对介入手术室中技术的工作流程和人体工程学的有效管理，以及系统之间在定义明确的安全协议内的信息交换，这些协议可以通过监管认证和患者安全标准化。IGT系统的多样性和复杂性使这一领域成为一个关键领域，通过协调努力、讨论、路线图和愿景来推进物理干预的可能性，而这只能通过EPSRC UK-IGT Network+来促进。

Image-guided therapy (IGT) combines simulation and modelling, imaging and sensing, computing, robotics as well as visualisation to improve the localisation and targeting of pathological tissue with surgical instruments and focused energy delivery. With the widespread acceptance of minimally invasive interventions, IGT is increasingly important for enhancing the capabilities of the surgeon and advancing the frontiers of interventional capabilities. Translating IGT innovation into clinical practice relies on effective collaboration, knowledge dissemination and sharing, because IGT is a cross-disciplinary and cross-modality field in which physicians, physicists, engineers, and computer scientists work jointly to build solutions. Deploying such solutions in clinical practice relies on effective management of the workflow and ergonomics of technology in the interventional theatre and on information exchange between systems within well-defined secure protocols that can pass regulatory certification and patient safety standardisation. The diversity and complexity of IGT systems positions this domain as a critical field to advance the possibilities of physical interventions through a coordinated effort, discussion, road mapping and vision that can only be facilitated through an EPSRC UK-IGT Network+.