IEEE EMBC Tutorial: Building image-guidance systems from open-source components
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…
Brigham Clinical Trial Using CAT Scan In Operating Room To Better Target Tumors
WBZ News Story on AMIGO. Read more...
Costas Arvanitis Wins the 2014 Roberts’ Prize for Best Paper Published in the Journal of Physics in Medicine and Biology in 2013
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.
The Ferenc A. Jolesz (Ed.) Intraoperative Imaging and Image-Guided Therapy book was published
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…
Surgery: The Eyes of the Operation
Real-time imaging of a patient's body is guiding surgeons and radiologists past healthy tissue to the diseased cells. Read more...
The The 6th NCIGT and NIH Image Guided Therapy Workshop
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.
Another Milestone for AMIGO
Friends of AMIGO Newsletter, Issue 4: The AMIGO team performed the 250th procedure in the suite on January st, 2013. Read more...
Researchers Develop New Tool to Help Brain Surgeons in Operating Room
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…
New Tool to Help Brain Surgeons, One Step Closer to Operating Room
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,…
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…
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…
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…
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…
AMIGO Staff Treated the 100th Patient in the AMIGO Suite
Friends of AMIGO Newsletter, Issue 3.
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…
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…