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Haga-Tsuruoka Lab
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A lab that uses microfabrication to build small medical and healthcare devices.
AboutAbout the lab
Next-generation medicine and healthcare opened up by microscale machines.
Haga-Tsuruoka Lab uses microfabrication technology to develop small, highly functional medical devices.
Using MEMS technology, the lab builds devices for minimally invasive medicine, such as endoscopes, catheters, and surgical instruments.
It extends the same technology to healthcare, developing thin, lightweight, wearable health-monitoring devices.
In the long term, the lab aims to realize robotic surgery and microsurgery performed from inside the body.
Key terms
- MEMS
- Devices that integrate tiny mechanical parts and electronic circuits on a single substrate. Short for microelectromechanical systems.
- Catheter
- A thin medical tube inserted into the body to perform examination or treatment.
- Minimally invasive medicine
- Examination and treatment performed by inserting a catheter or endoscope, without making a large incision in the body.
ResearchResearch themes
Using microfabrication technology, the lab builds medical devices that allow examination and treatment without large incisions, as well as healthcare devices for everyday use. It also develops organ models that help with physician training and the evaluation of medical devices.
*Illustrative imageMinimally invasive diagnostic and therapeutic devices
Catheters and endoscopes are limited in function and accuracy by their size and shape. The lab develops ultra-small blood pressure sensors and ultrasonic sensors and mounts them on these devices, making them higher-performing and more multifunctional.
*Illustrative imageWearable healthcare devices
The lab is developing a small ultrasonic sensor that attaches to the skin and noninvasively measures subcutaneous blood pressure and hemodynamics, and an interstitial fluid sampling system that uses a patch with microneedles to examine biological components in the blood without pain.
*Illustrative imageMicrofabrication on non-planar surfaces
Semiconductor and MEMS processes mainly work on flat wafers, which makes them poorly suited to building devices for use inside the body. The lab is developing techniques, and the equipment for them, for microfabrication on the outer and inner surfaces of tubes a few millimeters in diameter.
*Illustrative imageOrgan models with embedded sensors
Surgical training and the evaluation of medical devices have relied on actual surgeries and laboratory animals. By mounting microsensors on models that reproduce the shape and physical properties of organs, the lab quantifies treatment effects and the forces applied to tissue.
MembersFaculty
The members of Haga-Tsuruoka Lab are faculty, visiting faculty, researchers, doctoral, master's, and undergraduate students, and secretaries.
- ProfessorYoichi Haga
- Assistant ProfessorNoriko Tsuruoka
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The top and research theme images are illustrative and were not taken at the lab. They are cropped from Wikimedia Commons images. Cropped CC BY-SA images are provided under the same CC BY-SA license as the original (version shown on each line).
- Top image: “How ST designs and manufactures semiconductor devices - screenshot 1” STMicroelectronics (original work) Una tantum (screenshot) / CC BY 3.0 (cropped)
- Minimally invasive diagnostic and therapeutic devices: “IcuMedical MicroClave Clear Connector - single” mpan / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Wearable healthcare devices: “Max Health Band” Peterhcharlton / CC BY 4.0 (cropped)
- Microfabrication on non-planar surfaces: “Semiconductor Wafer of Microelectronics” DrHughManning / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Organ models with embedded sensors: “US Navy 081212-N-5086M-078 Cmdr. Ramona Domen, assistant director of the Naval Medical Center San Diego Medical and Surgical Simulation Center checks the heart and lungs of the Adult Trainer mannequin” U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communications Specialist 2nd Class Greg Mitchell / Public domain (cropped)
- Related lab (Nishizawa-Tottori-Osaki Lab): “Superabsorber Hydrogel KSG 2917 pK” Petra Klawikowski / CC BY-SA 3.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Funamoto Lab): “Microfluidic Reservoir” Kimbalm / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Amezawa-Kawai Lab): “Pila ossido solido SOFC” Asia Vedovi / CC BY 4.0 (cropped)
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