National Center for Image-Guided Therapy
Featured Image: An intraoperative brain shift monitor using shear mode transcranial ultrasound: preliminary results
Left: Detail of an oblique MRI scan (SE T1, TR = 650 ms, TE = 10 ms, FOV = 12.0 cm × 12.0 cm, slice thickness = 3.0 mm) that has been registered with the ITUM's signal path (solid line) through the ICSF (arrow). Right: Results of the statistical analysis to validate the ability of the ITUM to localize intracranial structures against the "gold standard" of MR imaging. The location of intracranial structures as measured by the ITUM is plotted against the same measurement performed by MRI. More...
The National Center for Image Guided Therapy (NCIGT) is an NIH funded Biomedical Technology Resource Center. The NCIGT serves as a national resource for all aspects of research into medical procedures enhanced by imaging, with the common goal of providing more effective patient care.
Based at the Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School in Boston, Massachusetts, the NCIGT is lead by Ferenc A. Jolesz M.D. and Clare Tempany M.D. and includes the work of more than one hundred physicians, scientists, and technical staff members.
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First Joint Project Week Summer 2009
Hands-on research and development activity for Image-Guided Therapy and Neuroscience applications. Participants will engage in open source programming using the NA-MIC Kit, algorithm design, medical imaging sequence development, tracking experiments, and clinical application.
Date: June 22-26, 2009.
Location: MIT. Grier Rooms A & B: 34-401A & 34-401B. More...
6th Annual World Congress for Brain Mapping and Image Guided Therapy
August 26-29 2009.
Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA.
Organized by the International Brain Mapping & Intraoperative Surgical Planning Society (IBMISPS).
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