The new Bangor Group

Building on the success of initial research and development in the area of using high frequency microwave energy to accurately locate and controllable destroy breat tumours, leaving a safe margin, the group at Bangor has been created to bring early stage research and development of new clincially advanced systems into the academic environment. Bangor has put together a research team which engages clinicians, researchers, engineers and SMEs in a non-commercial environment where all parties contribute to the research at the same level.

The group is also able to gain access to grant funding, which would not be available outside the academic environment.

Development of novel medical systems, especially those developed for cancer treatment, is not only costly but time consuming due to the amount of clinical research required before the systems can be used in humans on a regular basis. The group in Bangor is aiming to tackle this issue head on by providing the perfect environment for the pre-commercial development of new clinically-useful medical systems.

Electromagnetic field (EM) simulation for a surgical antenna structure showing power density using a representative tissue model

EM field simulation for a co-axial structure showing the power density caused by four feed pipes entering the structure