Abstract
The application of science and engineering to healthcare is one of the most multidisciplinary areas of R&D and can be one of the most rewarding (although also occasionally frustrating)! To develop a new diagnostic, monitoring or treatment technique in the laboratory is exciting, but the real reward is to get that technique out of the lab and into use on patients. To do this successfully requires a very broad and multidisciplinary collaboration between scientists, engineers, clinical staff, industry and patients and can often take many years (though if the breakthrough is reported by the media, this is usually shortened into an opening sentence “Doctors have developed...”).
The talk describes a series of monitoring and imaging technique developments that the speaker has been involved in and look at the process of successful (and some unsuccessful) translation of these into clinical practice.
