Delft Imaging operates a global service network supporting medical imaging systems across more than 90 countries. With increasing service demand, this case focuses on improving both the quality of incoming service requests and the efficiency of resource planning.

The pericardial sac hosts the heart. If filled with fluid, evacuation with a needle is needed often, frequently acute. This process is dangerous, puncturing the heart itself, or only effective temporarily due to new fluid. We urgently need a solution for better positioning and leaving a larger hole behind. Guide pericardial punctures, help us see what we’re doing and prevent puncturing the heart in the blind.

Circular Recovery of Critical Materials from Discarded Medical Instruments and Batteries: The objective of this project is to identify and characterize lithium and cobalt containing medical waste streams such as complex surgical instruments with batteries which are disposed after procedures.

Surgical instrument sets are assembled manually using silicone or stainless steel fixation strips, which are screwed or riveted into mesh baskets. This manual process is labor intensive, repetitive and limits scalability, especially in circular refurbishment workflows where instrument sets are repeatedly disassembled and reassembled.
Explore how robotization can support automized assembly of surgical instrument sets, based on technical drawings.

Phosphoenix is developing a brain implant to restore rudimentary vision in blind people. The full system inlcudes everything from camera-on-glasses, signal processing, wireless communication, stimulation and readout, upto the actual brain implant. The team will work on one of the elements in the full system. The actual case will depend on the background and interests of the students.