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Project Title: Connectivity Mapping of the Hyperdirect Pathway using the 3T PRISMA MRI Scanner & the MAGNUS MRI System for Precision Medicine In Parkinson's Disease.

The 12th National Image Guided Therapy Workshop was held on May 19, 2022, in virtual format. The workshop drew 289 registrations, including 29 NIH personnel and 48 industry representatives. The workshop…

Sonia Pujol, PhD, a clinical neuroscientist, investigates the anatomical connectivity of the human brain with a focus on brain mapping technology for neurosurgical intervention. She is the director of Training…

Project Title: Augmented Reality Guided Breast Reconstruction Surgery

Project Title: Automated Cranial Nerve Identification Using Deep Learning for Skull Base Presurgical Planning

Dr. Golby’s project will leverage existing investments in building health care infrastructure and will seek to advance biomedical technologies in settings with limited resources. The Fulbright Scholar Program supports activities…

Lauren O'Donnell, PhD, of the Department of Radiology, and Yogesh Rathi, PhD, of the Department of Psychiatry and the Department of Radiology, received a National Institutes of Health (NIH) RO1…

Tina Kapur, PhD, of the Department of Radiology and Andrew Goldsmith, MD, MBA, of the Department of Emergency Medicine, received capital funding from the Massachusetts Life Sciences Center (MLSC) for their…

There are many challenges in managing breast cancer. Top among them is the fact that initial breast-conserving surgeries (the standard treatment for early-stage disease also known as lumpectomies) often miss…

Translation of IGT Technologies to Low and Middle Income Countries

The purpose of the award is to promote the professional career development of postdoctoral fellows in the field of mass spectrometry. Activities envisioned for this award include, but are not limited to,…

Clare Tempany, MD presented via Zoom at the University of Utah GRAND ROUNDS - Radiology and Imaging Science.

MELBA, a web-based journal devoted to the free and unrestricted access of high quality articles in the broad field that bridges machine learning and biomedical imaging.

How Imaging and Image Analysis can Impact Neurosurgical Care

Ron Kikinis, MD vice chair of Biomedical Informatics Research and founding director of the Surgical Planning Laboratory in the Department of Radiology, was named the second B. Leonard Holman Professor…

Change at Fraunhofer MEVIS: Ron Kikinis assumes professorship in the USA. Ron Kikinis, MD the former director of the Fraunhofer Institute for Digital Medicine MEVIS in Bremen, has accepted a…

The 11th National Image Guided Therapy Workshop was also our first fully virtual meeting. It was held by Zoom on April 16, 2020.  It recorded 454 registered attendees, the largest number in…

Ron Kikinis, MD, and Andriy Fedorov, PhD, both of the Department of Radiology, were selected for the Imaging Data Commons (IDC) award from the National Cancer Institute’s (NCI's) Center for…

Fiona Fennessy, MD, PhD, of the Department of Radiology, was named to the 2019 Council of Distinguished Investigators by The Academy for Radiology and Biomedical Imaging Research. This honor recognizes…

The BWH Department of Radiology held their 7th Annual Radiology Research Symposium on Thursday May 23, 2019 in the BWH Hale Building for Transformative Medicine. The conference was attended by…

The Excellence in Mentoring Awards were established to recognize the value of quality mentoring relationships and the impact they have on professional development and career advancement in basic/clinical medicine, research,…

Ron Kikinis is honored for his contributions in the fields of MR image-guided interventions and in medical image computing with open-source software for image visualization, analysis, and surgical navigation.

Treatment of epidural tumours located in the spinal canal can be highly challenging, due to the risk of causing irreversible damage. To address this challenge, a medical team at Brigham and…

The 10th National Image Guided Therapy Workshop was successfully held with 98 registered attendees on October 7, 2018 at the Boston Marriott Long Wharf Hotel, 296 State Street, Boston. The attendees…

William (Sandy) M. Wells, III, PhD, Professor of Radiology at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, has been awarded the 2018 Enduring Impact Award from The Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention…

Frank Preiswerk, PhD of the Department of Radiology, earned the Second Best Abstract Award at the 2018 International Workshop on Osteoarthritis Imaging (IWOAI) for his work on detection of bone…

Natalie Agar, PhD "Mass Spectrometry Imaging for Surgical Pathology and Oncology" and Andrey Fedorov, PhD "Data Standardization for Advancing the Role of AI in Radiology", gave talks in the “First Look” session…

Jayender Jagadeesan, PhD chaired a Oral Presentations Session at the International Symposium on Medical Robotics (ISMR) in Atlanta, GA. He also gave a semi-plenary lecture on “Precision-enabled Image-guided Surgery”.

This year, “Top Doctors” highlighted more than 1,600 doctors in 60 different specialties who have made a significant impact in Massachusetts. To prepare the annual list, Boston Magazine partnered with Castle…

The original article appered in the October 2017 issue of the BWH Clinical & Research News. Sarah Frisken’s career path has taken her from academics to industry and back again. An electrical…

At Boston’s HUBweek session on Artificial Intelligence in Medicine, practitioners—including two MIT alumnae—shared some challenges and opportunities. Tina Kapur, PhD SM ’95, PhD ’99 and Dina Katabi SM ’99, PhD ’03 discussed…

Tina Kapur, PhD is  an invited speaker at this event that hosted by Massachusetts General Hospital in partnership with HUBweek and Harvard University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology and The Boston Globe. Artificial Intelligence…

To clinicians, researchers and technology enthusiasts, the BWH AMIGO suite represents the state-of-the-art in medical and surgical research environments. It offers advanced imaging equipment and interventional surgical systems in an…

From the discovery of x-rays in 1895 to the utilization of ultrasound, MRI, and CT scanners in the 1960s and 70s, health care has long depended on imaging to provide…

The fifth annual Radiology Research Symposium was held on Friday June 23, 2017 at the Longwood Inn Conference Center. There were 25 posters presented representing a wide variety of Radiology…

This 100-case, two-day course with 40 participants and 4 faculty is designed to provide practicing radiologists with intense training in the interpretation of multiparametric prostate MRI (mpMRI) and the use…

Martin Schostak, MD, PhD, gives a talk at our Prostate Group Meeting. Dr. Schostak comes to us from Magdeburg in Germany, where he is Professor of Urology and Chairman of the…

Frank Preiswerk, PhD honored with the Young Investigator Cum Laude Award of the ISMRM for his pioneering work on "Hybrid MRI-Ultrasound Acquisitions, and Scannerless Real-Time Imaging”. He is a postdoctoral…

Jayender Jagadeesan, PhD,  Assistant Professor working in the Surgical Planning Lab in the Radiology department at Brigham and Women’s hospital, has been named one of the 2017 Medtech Boston 40…

Experts, Clare M. Tempany-Afdhal, MD, Sung Yoon Park, MD, PhD, and Jelle Barentsz, MD, PhD, weigh in on PI-RADS v2 — a simplified scoring system focusing on the detection and exclusion…

The 9th Image Guided Therapy Workshop was successfully held with 98 registered attendees on March 14-15, 2017 at the Hyatt Regency Hotel, One Bethesda Metro Center, Bethesda, MD 20814, USA. The overall…

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The February issue of Magnetic Resonance on Medicine featured the lab’s research in 3D Printing for Image Guided-Therapy.  Mitsouras D, Lee TC, Liacouras P, Ionita CN, Pietilla T, Maier SE,…

We are delighted to announce the creation of the Ferenc Jolesz MD professorship at Harvard Medical School. This honors Ferenc A. Jolesz (1946-2014), the B. Leonard Holman professor of Radiology at…

Patients, radiologists, and specialists share how advances in imaging technologies are offering more precise diagnoses and treatments—and guiding medical and surgical procedures in real time. Brigham Health - Winter 2016/17.   Read…

Shinn-Huey S. Chou, MD mentored by NCIGT Investigator Jayender Jagadeesan, PhD and collaborator Eva Gombos, MD has been awarded an RSNA 2016 Travel Award for young investigators.  She will be presenting…

Nathalie Agar, PhD, director of the Surgical Molecular Imaging Laboratory in the Department of Neurosurgery, is part of a collaboration that was recently awarded a five-year, $9.7 million grant from the National…

Clare Tempany, MD gave a Keynote Lecture at the 19th International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention. YouTube Video is available here.

Baltimore Marriott Waterfront Hotel, Baltimore, MD The Interventional MRI Symposium is a cutting-edge platform for researchers, clinicians, and other health-care specialists to present their latest results and interact with international leaders…

The BWH Department of Radiology is pleased to announce that Bruno Madore, PhD has been selected to receive an Academy of Radiology Research’s 2016 Distinguished Investigator Award. This prestigious honor…

​​​​​​In the five years since the Advanced Multimodality Image Guided Operating (AMIGO) suite opened at BWH, more than 1,200 procedures have been performed there—a figure Clare Tempany, MD, medical director of AMIGO,…

Gombos EC, Jayender J, Richman DM, Caragacianu DL, Mallory MA, Jolesz FA, Golshan M. Intraoperative Supine Breast MR Imaging to Quantify Tumor Deformation and Detection of Residual Breast Cancer: Preliminary…

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Real-time image-guided video-assisted thoracic surgery procedures are helping remove small lung cancers less invasively at Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH). A multi-disciplinary team at BWH that includes radiologists is demonstrating success with a…

The 8th NCIGT and NIH Image Guided Therapy Workshop was successfully held with 103 registered attendees, on March 15-16, 2016 at the Hyatt Regency Hotel, One Bethesda Metro Center, Bethesda,…

The Huggins family is hoping the state-of-the-art AMIGO suite at Brigham and Women’s Hospital will make the father cancer-free. Read more...

A team at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre in Toronto used focused ultrasound to enable temporary and targeted opening of the blood-brain barrier (BBB), allowing the more effective delivery of chemotherapy into…

AdMeTech Foundation to unveil the results of a clinical MRI trial at the First Global Summit on Precision Diagnosis for Prostate Cancer. According to the study team, MRI and its Prostate Imaging…

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has renewed funding for the National Center for Image Guided Therapy (NCIGT) at Brigham and Women's Hospital (BWH). The five-year,  $12 million grant will allow the center to continue…

The Impact of NIH Research on Imaging, Technology, & Patient Care. The 2015 Showcase highlights the impact of imaging research on patient care and the American economy.

One of the top health care innovations that’s allowing us to improve and advance patient care is intraoperative MRI guidance in the Advanced Multimodality Image Guided Operating (AMIGO) suite, the vision of…

Steven Keating had no idea that a brain scan he volunteered for in 2007 would end up saving his life. More...

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Brigham and Women’s Hospital and the Department of Radiology mourn the passing of Ferenc A. Jolesz, MD, who died suddenly and unexpectedly. Read more...

Boston Globe: Doctors like to see what they are doing, and so they love magnetic resonance imaging scanners. MRI machines let them look inside the human body to see damaged tissues…

This time we had nearly 300 participants and a distinct increase of the interest of the industry with 26 companies participating in the industrial exhibition. The three industrial symposia were…

BWH Press releases. Up to 40 percent of patients undergoing breast cancer surgery require additional operations because surgeons may fail to remove all the cancerous tissue in the initial operation.…

The 7th Image Guided Therapy Workshop was successfully held at MIT with 109 registered attendees. The meeting was held in conjunction with MICCAI 2014.

This tutorial introduced the participants to best practices in prototyping image-guidance systems for minimally invasive interventions using open-source software tools. After completing this tutorial, participants will be able to build…

This tutorial will introduce the participants to best practices in prototyping image-guidance systems for minimally invasive interventions using open-source software tools. After completing this tutorial, participants will be able to…

WBZ News Story on AMIGO. Read more...

Arvanitis C.D., Livingstone M.S., McDannold N. Combined Ultrasound and MR Imaging to Guide Focused Ultrasound Therapies in the Brain. Phys. Med. Biol. 2013 Jun; 58:4749-61. PMID: 23788054. PMC3955087.

Image-guided therapy (IGT) uses imaging to improve the localization and targeting of diseased tissue and to monitor and control treatments. During the past decade, image-guided surgeries and image-guided minimally invasive…

Real-time imaging of a patient's body is guiding surgeons and radiologists past healthy tissue to the diseased cells. Read more...

The 6th Image Guided Therapy Workshop was successfully held on March 21-23, 2013 with 99 registered attendees. The topic for this year was Interventional applications for a changing healthcare environment.

Friends of AMIGO Newsletter, Issue 4: The AMIGO team performed the 250th procedure in the suite on January st, 2013. Read more...

Distinguishing the border between normal and cancerous brain areas can often be difficult for surgeons attempting to remove tumors. But a new tool may change this, allowing more comprehensive testing…

A new tool that could allow for faster, more comprehensive testing of brain tissue during surgery successfully identified the cancer type, grade and tumor margins in five brain surgery patients,…

WBZ News Story on AMIGO: There is no other operating room like this in world. Read more...

WBZ News Story on AMIGO: There is no other operating room like this in world. Read more...

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…

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…

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…

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Friends of AMIGO Newsletter, Issue 3.

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…

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…

The 4th Image Guided Therapy Workshop was successfully held on October 12-13, 2011 in Arlington, VA, with 115 registered attendees from the NIH funded research community. The topic for this workshop is "Advanced Imaging Technologies…

Friends of AMIGO Newsletter, Issue 2. BWH Unveils “Unprecedented Opportunity and One-Of-A-Kind Setting”. On May 4, 2011, Brigham and Women’s leapt into the future of image guided therapy with the much…

On May 4, BWH unveiled the Advanced Multimodality Image Guided Operating (AMIGO) Suite, which gives interventional radiologists and surgeons immediate access to a full array of advanced imaging modalities for…

Friends of AMIGO Newsletter, Issue 1: Advanced Multimodality Image Guided Operating Suite (AMIGO) is a patient-friendly environment where physicians and engineers, surgeons and radiologists all work closely together. More...

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has renewed funding for the National Center for Image Guided Therapy (NCIGT) at Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH). The five-year, $15 million P41 grant…