The National Center for Image Guided Therapy is an NIH funded Biomedical Technology Resource Center. The NCIGT serves as a national resource for all aspects of medical therapy enhanced by computation and imaging, with the common goal of providing more effective patient care. Read more >
Signa SP
Surgery and real-time magnetic resonance imaging are combined for the first time in Brigham and Women's Signa SP MRI scanner from GE. In this operating room environment, the surgeon can see MR images of the patient updated interactively. Read more >
AMIGO
NCIGT's Advanced Multimodality Image Guided Operating (AMIGO) suite, a collaboration with GE Healthcare, is a proving ground for future medical procedures. This “OR of the future” will provide the latest imaging and computational tools to the surgical team. Read more >
AMIGO
NCIGT's Advanced Multimodality Image Guided Operating (AMIGO) suite, a collaboration with GE Healthcare, is a proving ground for future medical procedures. This “OR of the future” will provide the latest imaging and computational tools to the surgical team. Read more >
AMIGO
NCIGT's Advanced Multimodality Image Guided Operating (AMIGO) suite, a collaboration with GE Healthcare, is a proving ground for future medical procedures. This “OR of the future” will provide the latest imaging and computational tools to the surgical team. Read more >
AMIGO
NCIGT's Advanced Multimodality Image Guided Operating (AMIGO) suite, a collaboration with GE Healthcare, is a proving ground for future medical procedures. This “OR of the future” will provide the latest imaging and computational tools to the surgical team. Read more >
Our Sponsors
The NCIGT is funded under NIH/NCRR grant U41RR019703.
In the Spotlight
Upcoming NIH and NCIGT workshop on Clinical Image-Guided Therapy: Opportunities and Needs
This workshop will be held on March 10-11, 2008 at the Rockville Hilton in Rockville, Maryland.
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5th annual Edward M. Kennedy Award for Healthcare Innovation
The honor went to doctors and scientists who make up the CIMIT Image Guided Therapy team from Brigham and Women’s Hospital.
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The SIGN Released
The SIGN is a comprehensive software development framework for IGT
applications. This system is now released publicly for developers to test
drive.
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Neurosurgery Milestone
BWH completes 1,000th Intraoperative MR-guided Craniotomy
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Surgical Planning
The Surgical Planning Laboratory provides computer algorithms, software systems, and other infrastructure to support preoperative planning, intraoperative execution, and patient monitoring within IGT.
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Focused Ultrasound
The FUS Laboratory performs research on uses of ultrasound for therapy and imaging, and on MRI-based guidance and monitoring of therapeutic FUS procedures.
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AMIGO
The overall goal in the Advanced Multimodality Image Guided Operating (AMIGO) suite is to integrate information from pre- and intraoperative imaging into a single, complete operational therapy delivery system.
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Prostate Therapy
Image guided prostate interventions are designed to ultimately allow for minimally or non-invasive therapy for prostate cancer to be delivered under image guidance.
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Tumor Ablation
The Tumor Ablation Program (TAP) provides patients with both pioneering and state-of-the-art procedures for focal therapy of tumors.
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Image-guided Neurosurgery
Combines preoperative high resolution functional MRI (fMRI), diffusion tensor imaging (DTI), and intraoperative electrophysiologic testing (ECS) in patients with brain tumors.
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MIPG
The overall goal is to develop fast, dynamic, and novel MR imaging techniques and applications in MRI-guided therapy.
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