Research into Breast Cancer Procedure Could Prevent Repeat Surgeries
WBZ News Story on AMIGO: There is no other operating room like this in world. Read more...
New Operating Room At BWH Helps Breast Cancer Patients Avoid Multiple Surgeries
WBZ News Story on AMIGO: There is no other operating room like this in world. Read more...
In Memoriam: Paul Morrison, Medical Physicist
BWH Radiology mourns the loss of Paul Morrison, MS, who died on September 24 after battling cancer. A medical physicist whose expertise encompassed MRI and laser safety, Mr. Morrison worked at BWH for more than 20 years. Colleagues described their…
The 5th NCIGT and NIH Image Guided Therapy Workshop
The 5th Image Guided Therapy Workshop was successfully held on September 21, 2012 with 147 registered attendees. The program was divided into 4 oral sessions and a poster session. It included 25 talks and 31 poster presentations.
Navigation Options in the AMIGO Suite Expanded to Include the Megrez System by Symbow Medical
The Megrez navigation system (Symbow Medical, Beijing, China) was installed in the Advanced Multimodality Image Guided Operating (AMIGO) suite of the Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women’s Hospital. Symbowmed joins the family of navigation systems present in AMIGO which…
A Review of the First Year of AMIGO
Over the past year, we have launched a number of new programs for several important conditions that are forwarding the mission of the Advanced Advanced Multimodality Multimodality Image Guided Operating Operating suite to demonstrate demonstrate that advanced imaging and image‐based…
Brigham and Women’s Hospital Opens Innovative Operating Room
The surgical suite is the first of its kind in the world and will facilitate improvements in surgical and interventional care. Brigham and Women's Hospital (BWH) has begun providing care to patients in the Advanced Multimodality Image Guided Operating (AMIGO) suite.…
True ‘AMIGOS’
On her way into the operating room, Laura Albanese wasn’t frightened about undergoing surgery to remove a brain tumor. Instead, she was confident, feeling as though she were surrounded by friends. “It was like we were Charlie’s Angels, a force…