National Center for Image Guided Therapy
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.
The center provides research programs, training, and service-oriented resources for scientists and clinicians in the field. These resources include image processing and display tools, dynamic and adaptive Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) methods, novel therapy techniques, and image-guided robotics.
Multidisciplinary development of innovative image-guided intervention technologies will enable effective, less invasive clinical treatments that are not only more economical, but also produce better results for patients. Through support from the National Center for Research Resources (NCRR), the National Cancer Institute (NCI), and the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB), the NCIGT is helping implement this vision by serving as a proving ground for the next generation of medical therapies.
Based at the Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School in Boston, Massachusetts, the NCIGT is led by Ferenc A. Jolesz, MD, and Clare Tempany, MD, and includes the work of more than a hundred physicians, scientists, and technical staff members.