The Laboratory of Percutaneous Surgery occupies over 2,000 square feet contiguous space in the School of Computing. The Perk Lab was equipped from recent CFI, ORF and NSERC infrastructure and instrumentation grants, netting over $1M combined. The Perk Lab offers state-of-the-art computers, position tracking devices, surgical robots, virtual reality surgical guidance systems. Imaging equipment includes motorized C-arm fluoroscope, various ultrasound scanners with open research interfaces to beam-former and radiofrequency stream, ultrasound transducers. There is a focused ultrasound tissue ablation system with open research interface, and appropriate interface appliances for integrated surgical robotics and navigation systems. Uniquely among academic labs, the Perk Lab employs professional software engineers hired from industry. Their role is to develop, disseminate, and maintain open-source platforms that support local research, as well as an extensive network of provincial, national and international collaborations.
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The Human Mobility Research Center embodies a partnership of Queen's and the Kingston General Hospital and it serves as a point of collaboration between medicine, health sciences, engineering, and computing. HMRC provides shared space and services for clinicians, surgeons, university faculty, students, and industry. The centre represents a $9M investment in image-guided surgery research infrastructure. In particular, we have access to the OR-2010, a one-of-its-kind fully qualified digital operating room specially built for image-guided intervention research, with integrated CT, angiography, ultrasound and surgical tracking; and a pre-clinical staging laboratory for ex-vivo animal and human cadaver experiments.
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