Expected Results & Impacts
IMPPACT will be modelling a physiological organ including the metabolism and patient specific tissue properties. This alone is a huge step forward as compared to the state-of-the-art intervention planning systems that do not address this issue.The IPS will allow prediction of treatment results on a patient specific base. It will therefore bring down the risk of local recurrences and eliminate the nowadays so common repeated treatments of the same tumour, making RFA an as effective treatment as resection.
At the same time the IPS will make RFA treatment much safer. By reliably predicting tissue heating it will warn of possible damage to surrounding organs in advance and allows choosing a safe needle position and path.
The greatest impact will be achieved by installing the created application in many hospitals in Europe. To be able to directly use the IPS in clinical practice medical personnel in those hospitals needs to be trained in using it. The augmented reality training simulator provides an excellent opportunity as it trains surgeons directly with the IPS
All developed software will be open source and run with common hospital equipment. Its deployment to virtually every hospital in Europe is solely a question of using a deployment infrastructure.