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Longport International Leads DTI Supported Project To Develop High Performance Ultrasound System
Longport International, Ltd., is participating in a £1.1 million project supported by a Department of Trade & Industry grant to develop a high resolution phased array ultrasound imaging system. The system will be capable of imaging at centre frequencies greater than 25 MHz as well as at lower frequencies and is expected to exceed the imaging resolution of all current commercial multi-element ultrasound systems.
The project, which is led by Longport International, involves the University of Manchester, Phoenix Inspection, a supplier of industrial inspection systems, and Newbury Electronics, a manufacturer of printed circuit boards and is supported under the DTI-led Technology Program.
Importantly, the system under development will combine very high performance with affordability through the utilization of novel transducer and system designs and the development of specialist integrated circuits. Initial applications for this system are expected to be cancer imaging, including the mapping of skin cancers, wound assessment and prevention, and superficial musculoskeletal imaging as well as specialist engineering inspections.
Paul Wilson, Managing Director of Longport International, said. “This project will build on expertise developed by Longport and the University of Manchester in high resolution ultrasound imaging and is seen as a logical evolution of Longport’s established medical imaging technology. The development is expected to bring the benefits of faster imaging as well as a broader range of image enhancement and processing techniques, including Doppler imaging, to Longport’s current customer groupings as well as expanding the markets that Longport can address.”
This project is part-funded by a Collaborative R&D grant under the Technology Programme.
Welcoming the new partnership, Science and Innovation Minister, Lord Sainsbury said, “This initiative provides a real opportunity to harness the world class expertise that we possess in the UK and direct it towards the task of wealth creation. By providing a focus for collaboration and delivery, this partnership should establish British industry as the world leader in this area and be an attractive proposition for investors.”
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