Past National Image Guided Therapy Workshops

The 12^th 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 started with four plenary lecturers covering state-of-art Image Guided Therapy research: Dr. Kim Butts-Pauly of Stanford University introduced her recent progress on Focused Ultrasound Therapy, and Dr. Oliver Jonas of Harvard Medical School on Drug Response measurements by intra-tumor device, Dr. Mathias Unberath on In Silico Experiment, and Dr. Ken Goldberg of UC Berkley on Artificial Intelligence robotic surgery. The plenary talks were followed by 35 oral presentations by Principal Investigators of active NIH grants on Image Guided Therapy research and 30 short presentations by fellows and post-docs to discuss their research progress with experts. The research presentation topics included Medical Robotics, Surgical technologies, Imaging and Sensing Technologies, and MRI-guided Focused Ultrasound therapies. The website for the workshop consists of the participants’ list and titles and authors of the talks. The link to the grants’ NIH Reporter page is provided for the talks covering the active NIH funding.

The overall goal of this workshop series is to foster discourse in translational research in image-guided therapy in the NIH-funded community and to communicate the availability of AT-NCIGT as a national resource for tools and technologies in the field. Attendees include NIH-funded academic scientists, clinicians, and leaders from industry and federal agencies interested in image-guided interventions. In the previous workshop also held in an online format, 454 participants, including 39 NIH Officers, learned the state-of-art in IGT from oral and poster presentations. Please view the participants’ list from the last workshop.

ORGANIZING CHAIRS

Nobuhiko Hata, PhD, Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School
Robert J, Webster III, PhD, Vanderbilt University
Clare Tempany, MD, Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School

PROGRAM CHAIRS

Nathalie Agar, PhD, Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School
Qi Duan, PhD, National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering, National Institutes of Health
Nathan McDannold, PhD, Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School
Allison Payne, PhD, University of Utah
Behrouz Shabestari, PhD, National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering, National Institutes of Health
Daniel B. Vigneron, PhD, University of California San Francisco
William (Sandy) Wells, PhD, Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School

MEDIA COMMITTEE

Junichi Tokuda, PhD, Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School

PROGRAM | Thursday, May 19, 2022, 12:30 – 4:30pm

All events are in Eastern Daylight Time (EDT)

PROGRAM AT A GLANCE
		MAIN HALL	Breakout Room FENWAY	Breakout Room ALLSTON	Breakout Room CAMBRIDGE
12:30 – 1:10pm		Welcome and Plenary Talks
1:20 – 2:50pm	Webinar Sessions 10 minutes talk no QA	Medical Robotics	Imaging and Sensing	FUS/US/Ablation	Surgery
3:00 – 3:20pm		NIH Information Session
3:30 – 4:30pm	Interactive Oral Sessions 3 Slides and Audio QA	Medical Robotics	Imaging and Sensing	MRI-guided FUS and Therapies	Neurosurgery

ZOOM INFORMATION
	Zoom link without passcode Passcode embedded direct link sent via email	Zoom Meeting ID	Zoom Passcode
MAIN HALL	https://partners.zoom.us/j/85438733492	854 3873 3492	Sent via Email
Breakout Room FENWAY	https://partners.zoom.us/j/87089505543	870 8950 5543	Sent via Email
Breakout Room ALLSTON	https://partners.zoom.us/j/89375277321	893 7527 7321	Sent via Email
Breakout Room CAMBRIDGE	https://partners.zoom.us/j/81017515803	810 1751 5803	Sent via Email

12:30-12:35pm | Opening Remarks
M A I N H A L L	Clare Tempany, MD Brigham and Women’s Hospital Harvard Medical School Nobuhiko Hata, PhD Brigham and Women’s Hospital Harvard Medical School Robert J. Webster III, PhD Vanderbilt University
12:35-1:15pm | Plenary Talks
M A I N H A L L	FOCUSED ULTRASOUND SURGERY Kim Butts-Pauly, Professor, Stanford University High Resolution Transcranial Ultrasound Stimulation (TUS) with Crossbeam IMAGING AND SENSING Oliver Jonas, Associate Professor, Harvard Medical School Intratumor Microdevices for Multiple Drug Response Measurements in Patients SURGERY Mathias Unberath, Assistant Professor, Johns Hopkins University SyntheX — Catalyzing the Design of Intelligent Surgical Systems Through In Silico Experiment MEDICAL ROBOTICS Ken Goldberg, Professor, UC Berkley The Cutting Edge of Robot Surgery
1:20-2:50pm | Webinar Session
Abstracts of the Oral Presentations
M A I N H A L L	MEDICAL ROBOTICS Session Chairs: Robert J, Webster III, PhD, Vanderbilt University Nobuhiko Hata, PhD, Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School 1:20 – 1:30pm Telerobotic Neurovascular Interventions With Magnetic Manipulation Xuanhe Zhao (MIT) 1R01HL153857 NSF EFRI-1935291; Philips Research North America through MIT-Philips research alliance 1:30 – 1:40pm MERLIN: An MRI-Guided Steerable Needle to Replace Open Brain Surgery for Epilepsy Patients Eric J. Barth (Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN) 5R01NS120518 1:40 – 1:50pm Image-Guided Robotic Steerable Needles for Enhanced Access to Lung Nodules Ron Alterovitz (Department of Computer Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, NC) 5R01EB024864 1:50 – 2:00pm Shape-Sensing and Prediction using FBG-Sensorized Needles Iulian Iordachita (Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD) R01 CA235134-01 2:00 – 2:10pm Image-Guided Robotics for Surgical Reduction of Complex Joint Dislocations Ali Uneri (Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD) 1R01EB031958 2:10 – 2:20pm Medical Robotics for MRI-Guided Interventions Kevin Cleary (Children’s National Hospital, Washington D.C.) R01EB025179; R01EB020003; R01CA172244; R01NS116148 2:20 – 2:30pm Open Source Software Platform for Image-Guided Robot-Assisted Interventions Junichi Tokuda (Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School) R01EB020667 2:30 – 2:40pm Physician Assistance Technology in Image-guided Robotic Intervention of Prostate Nobuhiko Hata (Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School) 1R01EB030539
Room F E N W A Y	IMAGING AND SENSING Session Chairs: William (Sandy) Wells, PhD, Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School Daniel B. Vigneron, PhD, University of California San Francisco 1:20 – 1:30pm Targeted Contrast Agents for Image-Guided Drug Delivery and Cancer Therapy  Hak Soo Choi (Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA) R01EB022230; R21CA223270; R01HL143020 1:30 – 1:40pm Deformable Motion Compensation for 3D Image-Guided Interventional Radiology Alejandro Sisniega (Department of Biomedical Engineering, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD) R01EB030547 1:40 – 1:50pm Clinical Impact of a Volumetric Image Method for Confirming Tumour Coverage With Ablation on Patients With Malignant Liver Lesions (COVER-ALL Trial)  Bruno C. Odisio (Department of Interventional Radiology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX) 1R01CA235564 1:50 – 2:00pm Estimation of High Framerate Digital Subtraction Angiography at Low Radiation Dose Nazim Haouchine (Department of Radiology, Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA) R03EB032050 BWH Radiology Department Research Pilot Grant Award 2:00 – 2:10pm High Temporal Resolution Using 1000 fps Angiography for Endovascular Interventional Procedures Stephen Rudin (University at Buffalo (SUNY) Canon Stroke and Vascular Research Center, Buffalo, NY) R01EB030092 2:10 – 2:20pm Renal Mass Angiography Using QUTE-CE-MRA With Ferumoxytol Contrast Agents in Chronic Kidney Disease Patients Srinivas Sridhar (Northeastern University, Boston, MA) 1R21DK118449 2:20 – 2:30pm Extract the Cardiac Cycle Signal and Respiratory Signal Directly for 2D Cine MR Images and CBCT Projection Images Deshan Yang (Duke University, Durham, NC) 1R01HL148210 2:30 – 2:40pm 4D Motion Modeling and Real-Time Online 3D Motion Tracking for MR Image Guided Radiotherapy Deshan Yang (Duke University, Durham, NC) 1R01HL148210 2:40 – 2:50pm In Vivo 3-D Gamma-Ray Spectrometry for Molecular Theranostics Ling-Jian Meng (Department of Nuclear, Plasma and Radiological Engineering (NPRE) and the Department of Bioengineering (BIOE), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, IL) R01HL145786
Room A L L S T O N	FOCUSED ULTRASOUND/ULTRASOUND/ABLATION Session Chairs: Nathan McDannold, PhD, Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School Allison Payne, PhD, University of Utah 1:20 – 1:30pm Transcranial MR-Guided Histotripsy for Non-Invasive Brain Surgery Zhen Xu (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI) R01EB028309 Focused Ultrasound Foundation 1:30 – 1:40pm Neuronavigation-Guided Sonobiopsy for Brain Tumor Genetic Diagnosis Without Surgery Hong Chen (Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO) 1R01EB030102 1:40 – 1:50pm Ultrasound as a Tool for Image-Guided Tumor Therapy: From Localized Energy Deposition to Site-Specific Triggered Drug Delivery Alexander L Klibanov (Robert M Berne Cardiovascular Research Center) 1R01EB023055 1:50 – 2:00pm Model-Based Conformal Ablation Planning for MRI-Guided Robot-Assisted Needle-Based Therapeutic Ultrasound Treatment of Brain Tumors: Development and in vivo Validation in Survival Swine Studies of FEM-based Modeling and Reinforcement Learning-based Preoperative Planning Gregory Fischer (Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, MA) R01CA166379 2:00 – 2:10pm Multi-Functional Photoacoustic Image-Guided Ablation Therapy Haichong K. Zhang (Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, MA) DP5OD028162; R01CA134675 Worcester Polytechnic Institute internal fund, the Transformative Research and Innovation, Accelerating Discovery (TRIAD) grant 2:10  – 2:20pm Repurposing Color Doppler Ultrasound Imaging to Guide Targeted Cardiac Injections in Preclinical Animal Models Using Acoustically Active Needles Marek Belohlavek (Department of Cardiovascular Disease, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine and Science, Scottsdale, AZ) 5R01EB019947 Advanced Practice Research Award, Mayo Clinic Center for Clinical and Translational Science 2:20 – 2:30pm Development of a Forward-Viewing 3D Intravascular Ultrasound Imaging System for Functional Coronary Imaging-Guided Intervention Brooks Lindsey (Biomedical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology and Emory University, Atlanta, GA) 5R01EB031101 2:30 – 2:40pm Feasibility of Quantitative MR-Based Hypoxia Measurements in the Setting of Interstitial High Dose Rate Brachytherapy of the Cervix Gregory Ekchian (Stratagen Bio Inc.) R43CA261401; P41EB015898 Bridge Project Grant
Room C A M B R I D G E	SURGERY Session Chairs: Nathalie Agar, PhD, Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School Clare Tempany, MD, Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School 1:20 – 1:30pm Margin Detection for Oral Squamous Cell Carcinoma Using Dynamic Optical Contrast Imaging Maie St. John (Department of Head & Neck Surgery Thomas C. Calcaterra Chair in Head and Neck Surgery Co-Director, UCLA Head and Neck Cancer Program Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center David Geffen School of Medicine, UCLA, CA) NCI R01; NIBIB R01 1:30 – 1:40pm A Lensless Wireless Fluorescence Image Sensor for Real-time in vivo Imaging in Cancer Immunotherapy Mekhail Anwar (Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, University of California, Berkeley, USA and Department of Radiation Oncology, University of California, San Francisco, CA) 1DP2DE030713 1:40 – 1:50pm Near Infrared Nerve-Specific Fluorophores to Improve Nerve Sparing Radical Prostatectomy Summer Gibbs (Oregon Health and Science University, Portland, OR) R01EB032226 1:50 – 2:00pm Robot-Enabled Natural Orifice Prostatectomy Duke Herrell (Vanderbilt University Medical Center) R01EB026901 2:00 – 2:10pm Image Guided Robotic Nephron-Sparing Surgery Duke Herrell (Vanderbilt University Medical Center) R01EB023717 2:10 – 2:20pm Optical Phantoms and Computational Tools for Advancing Development of Fluorescence Guided Surgery Ethan LaRochelle (CEO & Co-founder, QUEL Imaging) 1R43EB029804; 75N91021C00035 2:20 – 2:30pm Technology and Framework for Image-guided Transoral Robotic Surgery (igTORS) Ryan Halter (Dartmouth College, Hanover, HN) 1R21CA246158 Norris Cotton Cancer Center Pilot Awards 2:30 – 2:40pm Trackerless Navigation System for Lateral Skull-base Surgery Haoyin Zhou (Department of Radiology, Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA) K99EB027177; R01EB025964; P41EB015898 2:40 – 2:50pm Establishing Extensible Open Source Infrastructure for Managing IGT Data Andrey Fedorov (Department of Radiology, Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA) P41EB028741; T32EB025823 NCI Imaging Data Commons
3:00-3:20pm | NIH Information and Q&A
M A I N H A L L	Session Chairs: Behrouz Shabestari, PhD, National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering, National Institutes of Health Qi Duan, PhD, National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering, National Institutes of Health
3:30-4:30pm | Interactive Oral Sessions
Abstracts of the Interactive Oral Presentations
M A I N H A L L	MEDICAL ROBOTICS Moderators: Haoyin Zhou, PhD, Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School Xiaoguang Dong, PhD, Vanderbilt University 3:30 – 3:37pm An Ultra-Thin Steerable Transnasal Endoscope to Replace Exploratory Middle Ear Surgeries Caleb Rucker (The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN) 1R44DC019894 3:37- 3:44pm On Surgical Planning based on Patient-Specific CTR Design for Percutaneous Nephrolithotomy Filipe Pedrosa (Western Univerity, London, ON, Canada) R01DK119269 Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada through grant RGPIN1345 3:44 – 3:51pm C-am fluoroscopy-guided Pose Estimation and Path Planning of Surgical Robots Sharan Ravigopal (Graduate Student) R01HL144714; R01HL140325 3:51 – 3:58pm Dynamic Modelling and Control of a Robotic Intracardiac Echo Catheter Mohammad Salehizadeh (Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Department of Radiology, Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA) R01EB028278 3:58 – 4:05pm Preclinical Evaluation of a Marker-less, Real-time, Augmented Reality Guidance System for Robot Assisted Radical Prostatectomy Megha Kalia (Robotics and Control Lab, Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of British Columbia, Canada) CIHR grant MOP-142439; CA Laszlo Chair 4:05 – 4:12pm A Literature Study on Needle Insertion Mechanical Factors Affecting Prostate Core Biopsy Sample Quality Isaac Girgis (Burnett School of Biomedical Sciences, University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL) R15EB030356 4:12 – 4:19pm A Calibration Framework for Enabling Image-Guided Robotic Surgery with the da Vinci Xi Surgical System via Integrated Stereovision and Joint Kinematics Michael A. Kokko (Mike) (Thayer School of Engineering, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH) Partial pilot funding from Norris Cotton Cancer Center
Room F E N W A Y	IMAGING AND SENSING Moderators: Sharath K. Bhagavatula, MD, Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School Guigen Liu, PhD, Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School 3:30 – 3:37pm Prospective Validation of Diffusion-Weighted MRI as a Biomarker of Tumor Response and Oncologic Outcomes in Head and Neck Cancer: Results From an Observational Biomarker Pre-Qualification Study Abdallah S. R. Mohamed (Department of Radiation Oncology, The University of Texas, MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX) R01DE028290; R01DE025248 3:37 – 3:44pm The Clinical Impact of Intraoperative Margin Assessment in Breast Cancer Surgery Using a Novel Pegulicianine Fluorescence Guided Surgery System: A Prospective Single Arm Study E. Shelley Hwang (Duke Cancer Institute and Duke University Health System, Durham, NC) 5R44CA211013 3:44 – 3:51pm Improved Color-Guided Depth Super-Resolution for Augmented Reality Guided Surgery Ritvik Pulya (Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Johns Hopkins University) R01EB025964; P41EB028741 3:51 – 3:58pm Real-time Multimodal Optical Imaging and Risk Map Projection for Oral Cancer Detection and Biopsy Guidance Jackson Coole (Department of Bioengineering, Rice University, Houston, TX) 5R01DE029590 3:58 – 4:05pm Development of a Radiolabeled Peptide-Drug Conjugate for Image-Guided Drug Delivery Solmaz AghaAmiri (The Brown Foundation Institute of Molecular Medicine, McGovern Medical School, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, TX) 4:05 – 4:12pm Multimodality Guidance for Breast-Conserving Cancer Surgery Using Real-Time Navigated Mass Spectrometry Jessica R. Rodgers (School of Computing, Queen’s University, Kingston, ON, Canada) Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR); Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC) 4:12 – 4:19pm Targeted Multicolor In Vivo Imaging Over 1000 nm Enabled by Nonamethine Cyanines Mara Saccomano (Helmholtz Zentrum Muenchen, Germany) 4:19 – 4:26pm Interpretable Computer Aided Margin Assessment in Navigated iKnife Surgeries Amoon Jamzad (Queen’s University, Kingston, ON, Canada) NSERC, CIHR
Room A L L S T O N	MRI-GUIDED FUS AND THERAPIES Moderators: Pedro Lopes Da Frota Moreira, PhD, Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School Nicholas Todd, PhD, Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School 3:30 – 3:37pm The Quest to Improve Efficacy of Endovascular Neuro-Interventions: Focus on Spatial Precision of the Blood Brain Barrier Opening in a Mouse Model G. Qiao (Department of Diagnostic Radiology and Nuclear Medicine, School of Medicine, University of Maryland, Baltimore, MD) R21NS118232 3:37 – 3:44pm Transcranial Focused Ultrasound Targeting Using Image Guidance and Array-Based Steering M. Anthony Phipps (Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN) U18EB029351; R24MH109105; T32EB001628 3:44 – 3:51pm Investigating the Feasibility of Targeting Mesial Temporal Lobe Structures Using tcMRgFUS Sijia Guo (Department of Diagnostic Radiology and Nuclear Medicine, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD) Focused Ultrasound Foundation 3:51- 3:58pm Data-Driven Algorithms for Pre and Intraoperative Planning of Focal Cryoablation of Prostate Cancer Pedro Moreira (Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA) P41EB028741 3:58 – 4:05pm Dual-Tracked Devices for Efficient Interventions Utilizing Multiple Modalities: The MR-Tracked and Impedance-Tracked Cardiac-Arrythmia Ablation Example Masahito Suzuki (Division of Cardiology, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD) R01-EB022011; R21-EB023515; R01-HL157259; R01-EB020667 AHA-SDG261039 (PI: E. Schmidt) 4:05 – 4:12pm In vitro Evaluation of Full-length, MR-safe Interventional Passive Catheter Markers at 3T Bridget F Kilbride (UCSF Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, San Francisco, CA) R01 EB012031; R21 EB020283
Room C A M B R I D G E	NEUROSURGERY Moderators: Jie Ying Wu, PhD, Vanderbilt University Nazim Haouchine, PhD, Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School 3:30 – 3:37pm NousNav: Democratizing Access to Neuronavigation Étienne Léger (Department of Neurosurgery, Brigham and Women’s Hospitaland Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA) 3:37- 3:44pm Neurosurgical Guidance at Cortical Level: Concepts and Preliminary Results Nazim Haouchine (Department of Radiology, Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA) R01 EB027134 BWH Radiology Department Research Pilot Grant Award 3:44 – 3:51pm Resection Progress Mapping For Real-time Residual Tumor Identification and Brain Shift Estimation Parikshit Juvekar (Department of Neurosurgery, Brigham & Women’s Hospital  and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA) R01 EB027134; P41EB028741 3:51 – 3:58pm Image-guided Instrument Adapter Array-assisted Cavitron Ultrasonic Surgical Aspirator (CUSA) Resection of a Right Temporal Glioblastoma – A Technical Case Report Parikshit Juvekar (Department of Neurosurgery, Brigham & Women’s Hospital  and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA) R01 EB027134; P41EB028741 3:58 – 4:05pm Image-Guided Ommaya Reservoir Placement for Leptomeningeal Metastasis in the Philippines: A Case Series and Scoping Review Erickson Torio (Department of Neurosurgery, Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA) 4:05 – 4:12pm Progression-free and Overall Survival of Adult Patients with High-Grade Gliomas undergoing Image-Guided Surgery: A Network Meta-analysis utilizing Individual Patient Survival Data Erickson Torio (Department of Neurosurgery, Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA) 4:12 – 4:19pm Non-Invasive Robotic Tumor Bed Inspection in Breast Conserving Surgery Laura Connolly (Queen’s University, Kingston, ON, Canada) 4:19 – 4:26pm A Surgical Planning Software for DIEP Flap Breast Reconstruction Using a Depth Camera Elise Fu (Departments of Radiology, Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA) R01EB025964; P41EB028741 Radiology Department Pilot Grant 4:26 – 4:33pm Locating Tumor Classifications in Breast Cancer Surgery Joshua Ehrlich (School of Computing, Queen’s University, Kingston ON, Canada) 1R01EB021396 Gabor Fichtinger is supported as a Canada Research Chair in Computer-Integrated Surgery; We acknowledge the support of the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) and Ontario Graduate Scholarship (OGS) program.

Confirmed Attendees (as of 05/18/2022)

1. 1. Abdallah S. R. Mohamed | The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
   2. Abhinav K. Jha | Washington University in St. Louis
   3. Afsoon Nejati | Toronto’s Metropolitan University
   4. Alejandro Sisniega | Johns Hopkins University
   5. Alexander Klibanov | University of Virginia
   6. Alexis Girault | NVIDIA
   7. Ali Azhdarinia | The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
   8. Ali Moein | Boston University
   9. Ali Tavallaei | Ryerson University
   10. Ali Tavallaei | Toronto Metropolitan University
   11. Ali Uneri | Johns Hopkins University
   12. Allison Payne | University of Utah
   13. Alykhan Sewani | Ryerson University
   14. Amoon Jamzad | Queen’s University
   15. Anabel Alfonso | Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
   16. André Legendre | Kalima Blockchain
   17. Andrey Fedorov | Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School
   18. Ashwin Singh Parihar | Washington University School of Medicine
   19. Aurea Pascal-Tenorio | Department of Radiology, Stanford University
   20. Bhadrasain | Vikram | NIH
   21. Blake Beier | Sterling Medical Devices
   22. Boklye Kim | NIH/NCI
   23. Brian Rodgers | NIH
   24. Brian Schlossberg | Lumicell Inc.
   25. Bridget Kilbride | UCSF
   26. Brooks Lindsey | Georgia Institute of Technology and Emory University
   27. Bryan Parker | International Healthcare
   28. Carl-Fredrik Westin | Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School
   29. Cheng Wang | UCSF
   30. Chiayeng Wang | NCI/NIH
   31. Chih-Yen Chien | Washington University in St. Louis
   32. Chris Gibson | Robarts Research Institute
   33. Clare Tempany | Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School
   34. Connor Barth | Oregon Health & Science University
   35. Cosmin Ciausu | Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School
   36. David Bericat | NVIDIA
   37. David Moore | Focused Ultrasound Foundation
   38. Deepa Krishnaswamy | Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School
   39. Dennis Parker | University of Utah
   40. Deshan Yang | Duke University
   41. Desmond Teck Beng Yeo | GE Research
   42. Dieter Haemmerich | Medical University South Carolina
   43. Dimitri Lezcano | Johns Hopkins University
   44. Dipanjan Pan | University of Maryland Baltimore
   45. Elena Maria Zannoni | University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
   46. Elvis Chen | Robarts Research Institute
   47. Emilee Minalga | University of Utah
   48. Emma Erickson | Carnegie Mellon University
   49. Erez Nevo | Robin Medical
   50. Eric Jeffrey Seibel | University of Washington
   51. Étienne Léger | Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School
   52. Eva Gombos | Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School
   53. Evangelia Kaza | Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School
   54. Faisal Bashir | Medtronic
   55. Filipe Pedrosa | Western University
   56. Frederic Padilla | Focused Ultrasound Foundation
   57. Gang Li | Children’s National Medical Center
   58. George Durrant | Medtronic
   59. Gernot Kronreif | ACMIT Gmbh
   60. Ghina Zia | Indiana University School of Medicine
   61. Gregory Ekchian | Stratagen Bio Inc.
   62. Guanda Qiao | University of Maryland, Baltimore
   63. Guigen Liu | Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School
   64. Gulsah Caneli | Medtronic
   65. Haichong (Kai) Zhang | Worcester Polytechnic Institute
   66. Hak Soo Choi | Massachusetts General Hospital
   67. Han Dong | Vanderbilt Bio Photonics Center
   68. Haoyin Zhou | Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School
   69. Haroon Oqab | Kepler Space Institute
   70. Hasnine Haque | GE Healthcare
   71. Henrik Odéen | University of Utah
   72. Hong Chen | Washington University in St. Louis
   73. Huabei Jiang | University of South Florida
   74. Ileana Hancu | NIH/NCI
   75. Isaac Girgis | Burnett School of Biomedical Sciences, University of Central Florida
   76. Iulian Iordachita | Johns Hopkins University
   77. Jacek Capala | National Cancer Institute
   78. Jack Peters | Vanderbilt University
   79. Jackson Coole | Rice University
   80. Jacob | Ryerson University
   81. James Basilion | Case Western University
   82. Janice M Fairhurst | MassGeneral Brigham
   83. Jared Lawson | Vanderbilt University
   84. Javier Pascau | Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (Spain)
   85. Jayender Jagadeesan | Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School
   86. Jeff Rezazada | Ryerson University
   87. Jeff Siewerdsen | Johns Hopkins University
   88. Jessica Rodgers | Queen’s University
   89. Jianing Pang | Siemens Healthineers
   90. Jie Ying Wu | Vanderbilt University
   91. Jing Wang | UT Southwest
   92. Josh Hillyard | University of Utah
   93. Joshua Crockett | University of Utah
   94. Joshua Ehrlich | Queen’s University
   95. Joshua Marchant | University of Utah
   96. Junichi Tokuda | Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School
   97. Kai Bao | Massachusetts General Hospital
   98. Karen Joos | Vanderbilt University Medical Center
   99. Karun Sharma | Children’s National Medical Center / George Washington University
   100. Kenji Fujioka | Northern Digital Inc. (NDI)
   101. Kevin Cleary | Children’s National Hospital
   102. Khan Iftekharuddin | Old Dominion University
   103. Laura Connolly | Queen’s University
   104. Leyla Kabuli | UC Berkeley
   105. Lily Yang | Emory University
   106. Lisa Last | nView medical
   107. Lu Xu | Washington University in St. Louis
   108. Maie St. John | UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine
   109. Mara Saccomano | Helmholtz Pioneer Campus, Helmholtz Zentrum München
   110. Marek Belohlavek | Department of Cardiovascular Disease, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine and Science, Scottsdale
   111. Mariana Costa Bernardes Matias | Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School
   112. Mark Vangel | Massachusetts General Hospital
   113. Masahito Naito | Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School
   114. Masahito Suzuki | Johns Hopkins University
   115. Matthew Tarasek | GE Global Research
   116. Megha | Robotics and Control Lab, The University of British Columbia
   117. Mekhail Anwar | UCSF
   118. Michael Daly | University Health Network
   119. Michael Malmberg | University of Utah
   120. Michelle Kline | Utah Center for Advanced Imaging Research, University of Utah
   121. Michellie Choi | Western University
   122. Mike Kokko | Dartmouth College
   123. Milind Rajadhyaksha | Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
   124. Mohammad Khoobani | Toronto Metropolitan University
   125. Mohammad Salehizadeh | Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School
   126. Mohammadmahdi | Tahmasebi Student at Toronto metropolitan university
   127. Mohmed Almekkawy | Penn State University
   128. Morgan Ringel | Vanderbilt University
   129. Nathalie Agar | Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School
   130. Nazim Haouchine | Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School
   131. Neal Clinthorne | Ehmet Health
   132. Neel Shihora | Vanderbilt University
   133. Neil Glossop | ArciTrax Inc., Queen’s University
   134. Nicholas Fordham | Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston University School of Medicine
   135. Nicholas Richards | Univeristy of Utah
   136. Nobuhiko Hata | Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School
   137. Pedro Moreira | Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School
   138. Perry Grigsby | Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology
   139. Prerna | NVIDIA
   140. Pushpa Tandon | National Cancer Institute
   141. Qi Duan | NIH
   142. Quirina de Ruiter | Intuitive
   143. Rafael Moreta-Martinez | Universidad Carlos III de Madrid
   144. Randy King | NIH/NIBIB
   145. Rao Gullapalli | University of Maryland School of Medicine
   146. Rao P Gullapalli | University of Maryland School of Medicine
   147. Ravi Teja Seethamraju | Siemens Healthineers
   148. Rebecca Lisk | Surgical Navigation & Robotics Lab
   149. Richard Wahl | Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology, Washington University School of Medicine
   150. Robb Merrill | Department of Radiology, University of Utah
   151. Robert Cormack | Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School
   152. Robert Nordstrom | National Cancer Institute
   153. Rock Hadley | University of Utah
   154. Ron Alterovitz | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
   155. Ron Kikinis | Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School
   156. Ross Berbeco | BWH/DFCI
   157. Rozhan Rabbani | Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, University of California, Berkeley
   158. Rui Li | New York University
   159. Ryan Halter | Dartmouth College
   160. Ryo Murakami | Medical Fusion Laboratory, Worcester Polytechnic Institute
   161. Sai Tej | Independent
   162. Sam Clinard | University of Utah
   163. Sam Song | University of Central Florida
   164. Samuel Kesner | Medtronic
   165. Samuel S. Streeter | Thayer School of Engineering at Dartmouth
   166. Sanghoon Kim | Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School
   167. Sara Johnson | University of Utah
   168. Sarah Frisken | Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School
   169. Satoshi Kobayashi | Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School
   170. Sean Madden | Lumicell, Inc.
   171. Sevda Mohammadi Gharalar | UCSF
   172. Shane Wells | University of Wisconsin Madison
   173. Shang Gao | Worcester Polytechnic Institute
   174. Sharan Ravigopal | Georgia Institute of Technology
   175. Sharath Bhagavatula | Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School
   176. Shreyas Chandra Sekhar | WPI
   177. Shubham Mandot | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
   178. Sijia Guo | University of Maryland School of Medicine
   179. Srinivas Sridhar | Northeastern University and Harvard Medical School
   180. Stephen Rudin | University at Buffalo (SUNY)
   181. Steven Roys | University of Maryland Hospital
   182. Stuart G. Silverman | Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School
   183. Summer Gibbs | Oregon Health & Science University
   184. Susann Brady-Kalnay | Case Western Reserve University
   185. Szymon Płotka | Sano Centre for Computational Medicine
   186. Takahisa Kato | Canon USA, Inc.
   187. Tamar Geller | Yale University
   188. Tamas Ungi | Queen’s University
   189. Tianyi Zhou | Northeastern University
   190. Tina Kapur | Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School
   191. Tokuyuki Honda | Canon USA, Inc.
   192. Tze-Yuan | Proprio
   193. Uditha Jayarathne | Northern Digital Inc.
   194. Walia Farzana
   195. Walid Ibn Essayed | Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women’s Hospital
   196. William Evan Higgins | Penn State University
   197. Xenophon Papademetris | Yale University
   198. Xiao Liang | University of Maryland School of Medicine
   199. Xiaoguang Dong | Vanderbilt Institute for Surgery and Engineering, Vanderbilt University
   200. Yash Ajay Garje | Worcester Polytechnic Institute
   201. Yeonhee Chang | Vanderbilt
   202. Yichuan Tang | Worcester Polytechnic Institute
   203. Yilan Xu | Vanderbilt University
   204. Ying Xiao | UPENN
   205. Yuan Chuan Tai | Washington University in St. Louis
   206. Yue Chen | Georgia Institute of Technology
   207. Zachary Chau | Northeastern University
   208. Zhen Xu | University of Michigan

22 others, including six NIH officers and industry colleagues from Intuitive Surgical, Northern Digital Inc, Medtronic, and NVIDIA.

Abstract Submission: Due Wednesday, April 20, 2022

Abstract Submission Site

We are soliciting submissions of short abstracts up to 500 words. The abstract doesn’t have to be a presentation of new data, but rather a compilation of past published data supporting your vision in Image-Guided Therapy research or NIH-funded program.

1. Place the presenter at the top of the authors’ list and designate him/her as the corresponding author. The priority is given to talks presented by the PI(s) of the NIH grant the study is based on.
2. The abstract can cover published or unpublished work.
3. Include the NIH Grant Numbers supporting the paper.
4. The work presented can certainly be supported by sources other than NIH.
5. The program committee will review all submissions and assign acceptances to either poster or oral presentations. Notice of acceptance will be sent out on 05/05/2022.

The 11^th National Image Guided Therapy Workshop

The 10^th National Image Guided Therapy Workshop

The 10^th 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 represented 39 academic institutions and 8 companies, as shown in the map below.

The program began with keynote presentations on the NCIGT Resource by Dr. Clare Tempany, and on Molecular Technologies for Image Guided Therapy by Dr. Christine Lorenz.  This was followed by 24 oral presentations divided into four oral sessions entitled: Imaging Innovations for my practice of medicine: viewpoints from interventional radiology, surgery, radiation oncology, and gastroentrology; Medical Image Computing to Guide Interventions; Robotic Surgery, Surgical Training, Therapy Delivery; and Innovations in Imaging and Sensors. This was followed by a presentation of 30 posters.  A highlight of the meeting was an interactive session between investigators and programs staff from NCI and NIBIB.

Workshop Registration

Workshop Program

Goal

The overall goal of this workshop series is to foster a discourse in translational research in image-guided therapy in the NIH-funded community, and to communicate the availability of NCIGT as a national resource for tools and technologies in the field. Attendees include NIH funded academic scientists, clinicians, and leaders from industry and federal agencies interested in image-guided interventions.

Important Dates

• Abstracts due Friday, August 10, 2018. Please submit here using the EasyChair conference management system.
• Acceptance decisions announced Friday, August 17, 2018 by email to authors.
• Camera ready copies of the abstracts due Friday, August 31, 2018 on the EasyChair website.

Submission Guidelines

Abstract submissions are solicited in areas of image-guided surgery, interventional radiology, adaptive radiation therapy, image-guided drug delivery, image-guided robotics, imaging informatics, and related areas.  The workshop is a single track meeting that includes oral and poster presentations of refereed abstracts, invited talks, and individual interactions with NIH Programs Staff.

Electronic submissions will be accepted until Friday, August 10, 2018, 11pm Pacific Standard Time on the Easy Chair Conference Management Website.

Guidelines for Abstracts

• Abstracts should be 1 page (8.5 inch x 11 inch page, US letter size), submitted in acrobat pdf format, with 1 inch margins, maximum 6 lines per inch (single spaced in software such as MS Word), in size 11 Arial Font. Please click here for the IGT Workshop Abstract Template.
• Abstract submissions should include Title, Author(s), Affiliation(s), and five sections: Purpose, Methods, Results, Conclusions, Funding Source(s), identified by bold headers.
• Funding source(s) for the work, if any, must be acknowledged in the abstract.
• Images in abstracts are encouraged.
• Please do not submit material that is not ready for public dissemination, or has been previously published in the form that you submit for this workshop.
• The program committee will review all submissions, and assign acceptances to either poster or oral presentation.

Guidelines for Oral Presentations

The speaking time is 10 minutes including questions. The talk should cater to non-experts who are interested in learning about the big picture goal of your work (technology-wise, disease-wise) and then into the specifics of the project. Please plan to deliver the presentation using your own laptop computer.

Guidelines for Poster Presentations

The posters should be prepared in an electronic format of the authors’  choice, and presented using individual laptops at the meeting. Suggested format is 5-10 slides that can be cycled through in 10 minutes.

Chairs

• Tina Kapur, PhD, Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School
• Kevin Cleary, PhD, Children’s National Health System
• Maie St. John, MD, PhD, University of California, Los Angeles
• Keyvan Farahani, PhD, National Cancer Institute
• Steven Krosnick, MD, National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering

Workshop Coordinator

• Danielle Chamberlain, Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School

Venue

Boston Marriott Long Wharf Hotel, 296 State Street, Boston.
Book your group rate with the Marriot Long Wharf Hotel

Reservations can be made directly with Marriott reservations at (800) 228-9290 or (617) 227-0800. The negotiated room rate of USD 309 is available until September 21, 2018. Parking (USD 55/day) is not validated so please use public transportation if possible.

Contact

All questions about submissions should be emailed to Danielle Chamberlain.

Registration

Please note, the registration fee of $300 applies to all attendees, including presenters.

Workshop Program

Please note that the 12th Interventional MRI Symposium  (iMRI 2018) will be held on October 5-6, at the Boston Marriott Long Wharf Hotel, 296 State Street, Boston, MA.

The 9^th National Image Guided Therapy Workshop

The 9^th 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 (1.301.657.1234).

The program was divided into 8 oral sessions and a poster session. It included 25 talks and 35 poster presentations. The oral sessions included Image-Guided Interventions, Surgery, Radiation Therapy, Perspectives from NCI, NIBIB, CSR, Perspectives from Industry, Novel Techniques for Living Tissue Microscopy and Spectroscopy, Robotics and Navigation, and Precision Therapy. The general chairs of this workshop were Drs. Tina kapur, Alexandra Golby, Sarah Frisken, William Wells, Noby Hata, and Jayender Jagadeesan of Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, along with Dr. Maie St. John of University of California, Los Angeles, Dr. Zion Tse, of University of Georgia, and Dr. Milind Rajadhyaksha of Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. The program chairs were Dr. Tina Kapur of Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Dr. Kevin Cleary of Children’s National Medical Center, and Dr. Keyvan Farahani of the National Cancer Institute, NIH, Dr. Steven Krosnick of National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering, Dr. Kristy Brock of University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center.

Background

The overall goal of this workshop series is to foster a discourse in translational research in image-guided therapy in the NIH-funded community, and to communicate the availability of NCIGT as a national resource for tools and technologies in the field. Similar to previous workshops in this series, attendees include members of academia, industry, and federal agencies interested in image-guided interventions.

Chairs

• Tina Kapur, PhD, Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School
• Kristy Brock, PhD, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
• Kevin Cleary, PhD, Childrens National Health System
• Keyvan Farahani, PhD, National Cancer Institute
• Steven Krosnick, MD, National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering

Hotel Reservation

Through this website you can book and modify your hotel reservation.

Registration

To register for the workshop, please click here.  Please note, the registration fee of $250 is to be paid by all attendees, including presenters.

Very limited financial support towards the registration fee is available for students/fellows/junior faculty who would otherwise not be able to attend the meeting. After submitting your abstract, please email us to indicate your need this support, and we will do our best to accommodate you.

Program

Day One – Tuesday, March 14, 2017

13:00-15:30	SESSION ONE: Image-Guided Interventions, Surgery, Radiation Therapy Session Chairs: Kevin Cleary, PhD, Children’s National Health System, Tina Kapur, PhD, Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School
13:00	Image-Guided Interventions in AMIGO Clare Tempany, MD, Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, USA
13:25	Center for Image Guided Cancer Therapy at MD Anderson Kristy Brock, PhD, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, USA
13:50	Carnegie Center for Surgical Innovation at Johns Hopkins Jeff Siewerdsen, PhD, Johns Hopkins University, USA
14:15	Multimodality Interventions with 3T MRI and BiPlane Angio at UCSF Steven Hetts, MD, University of California, San Francisco, USA
14:40	Image-Guided Head and Neck Cancer Surgery at UCLA Maie St. John, MD, University of California, Los Angeles, USA
15:05	Ergonomic Surgical Goggles for Molecular Fluorescence-Guided Cancer Resection Samuel Achilefu, PhD, Washington University at St. Louis, USA
15:30-16:00	Coffee Break
16:00-16:30	SESSION TWO: Perspectives from NCI, NIBIB Session Chairs: Maie St. John, MD, University of California, Los Angeles, USA, Zion Tse, PhD, University of Georgia, USA
16:00	Image-Guided Cancer Interventions at the National Cancer Institute Keyvan Farahani, PhD, National Cancer Institute, USA
16:15	Research Funding Opportunities at the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering Steven Krosnick, MD, National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering, USA
16:30-18:00	SESSION THREE: Individual Interactions with NIH Programs Staff Session Chairs: Maie St. John, MD, University of California, Los Angeles, USA, Zion Tse, PhD, University of Georgia, USA
16:30	Guidelines for the Session Maie St. John, MD, University of California, Los Angeles, USA, Zion Tse, PhD, University of Georgia, USA
16:40	Introduction to NIH Program Directors and Scientific Review Administrators Keyvan Farahani, PhD, (NCI), Pushpa Tandon, PhD, (NCI), Houston Baker, PhD, (NCI), Jacek Capala, PhD, (NCI), Deepa Narayanan, MS, (NCI SBIR), Steve Krosnick, MD, (NIBIB), Randy King, PhD, (NIBIB), Richard Baird, PhD, (NIBIB), Todd Merchak, BS, (NIBIB SBIR), Manana Sukhareva, PhD, (NIBIB Office of Scientific Review), Mehrdad Mohseni, MD, (CSR)
16:45	Individual Meetings Signup Sheet
18:00	Adjourn
18:05	(Optional) Depart for Dinner at Bangkok Garden Restaurant (click here to sign up, self pay $30)
Day Two – Wednesday, March 15, 2017
8:00-8:30	Breakfast
8:30-9:30	SESSION FOUR: Perspectives from Industry Session Chair: Sarah Frisken, PhD, Noby Hata, PhD, Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, USA
8:30	Building Value in Your Startup Neil Glossop, PhD, Medical Device Entrepreneur, USA
8:50	Medical Product Development:  Research to Deployment Everette C. Burdette, PhD, Acoustic MedSystems, Inc.
9:15-10:30	SESSION FIVE: Poster Session; Coffee Break
10:30-11:30	SESSION SIX: Novel Techniques for Living Tissue Microscopy and Spectroscopy Session Chair: Milind Rajadhyaksha, PhD, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, USA
10:30	Peri-operative Confocal Imaging-guided Treatment of Basal Cell Carcinomas – for Mohs Surgery, Laser Ablation Milind Rajadhyaksha, PhD, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, USA
10:50	Multimodality Molecular Imaging of Surgical Tissue for Breast Cancer Margin Assessment Nathalie Agar, PhD, Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, USA
11:10	Stimulated Raman Scattering Microscopy Provides Rapid Intraoperative Histology for Accurate Diagnosis of Pediatric Brain Tumors Todd C. Hollon, MD, Department of Neurosurgery, University of Michigan Health System, USA
11:30-13:00	Lunch Break
13:00-14:30	SESSION SEVEN: Robotics and Navigation Session Chair: Jagadeesan Jayender, PhD, Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, USA
13:00	MRI Compatible Robotics for In-bore Interventions Kevin Cleary, PhD, Children’s National Hospital, USA
13:15	Mixed Reality Navigation for Laparoscopic Surgery Jagadeesan Jayender, PhD, Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, USA
13:30	Towards Precise Freehand MRI-guided Cellular Therapeutic Targeting for Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Zion Tse, PhD, University of Georgia, College of Engineering, Athens, GA and 3T Technologies, LLC, USA
13:45	Towards Cooperative Control of MRI-guided Pelvic Needle Placement Procedures Marek Wartenberg, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, USA
14:00	Robot-Assisted Less-Invasive Treatment of Osteolysis using a Continuum Manipulator Mehran Armand, PhD, Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, USA
14:15	Bimanual Autonomous Anastomosis of the Vaginal Cuff using the Smart Tissue Autonomous Robot (STAR) and Near-Infrared 3D Tracking System Axel Krieger, PhD, Sheikh Zayed Institute for Pediatric Surgical Innovation, USA
14:30-15:00	Coffee Break
15:00-16:30	SESSION EIGHT: Precision Therapy Session Chair: Alexandra Golby, MD, Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, USA
15:00	Feasibility of Real-time Adatptive Treament Planning for MR Guided High Dose Rate Interstitial Brachytherapy Robert Cormack, PhD, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard Medical School, USA
15:15	Folate Targeted Intraoperative Imaging of Pulmonary Tumors Sunil Singhal, MD, Penn Medicine, USA
15:30	Monitoring Cryoablation using Short TI Inversion Recovery Ultrashort Echo Time (STIR-UTE) MRI Junichi Tokuda, PhD, Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, USA
15:45	Patient-Mounted Flexible Needle Guide Template for MRI Transperineal Prostate Focal Laser Ablation Bradford Wood, MD, National Institutes of Health, Radiology and Imaging Sciences, Center for Interventional Oncology, USA
16:00	Visualizing Surgical Margins during Robot-Assisted Procedures with Multi-Electrode Endoscopic Devices Ryan Halter, PhD, Dartmouth College, USA
16:15	Image-Guided Brain Tumor Resection Alexandra Golby, MD, Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, USA
16:30	Adjourn

The 8^th National Image Guided Therapy Workshop

The 8^th 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, MD. Phone: 1.301.657.1234
The program was divided into 9 oral sessions and a poster session. It included 35 talks and 28 poster presentations. The oral sessions included Multimodality Image-Guided Surgery and Radiation Therapy, Perspectives from NCI, NIBIB, CSR, Robot Assisted Procedures, Optical Imaging for Surgery, MR Guided Interventions, HIFU, Image Analysis, Navigation, and Visualization for Surgery. The general chairs of this workshop were Drs. Clare Tempany, Alexandra Golby, Sarah Frisken, William Wells, and Jayender Jagadeesan of Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, along with Dr. Vikram  Bhadrasain of National Cancer Institute, Dr. Steven Krosnick of the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering, NIH, Dr. Jaydev Desai of University of Maryland, Dr. Steven Hetts of USCF, and Dr. Zion Tse of University of Georgia.The program chairs were Dr. Tina Kapur of Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Dr. Kevin Cleary of Children’s National Medical Center, and Dr. Keyvan Farahani of the National Cancer Institute, NIH.

Workshop Program

GUIDELINES FOR ORAL PRESENTATIONS

The speaking time is 10 minutes, and 5 minutes for questions. The talk should cater to non-experts who are interested in learning about the big picture goal of your work (technology-wise, disease-wise) and then into the specifics of the project. Please plan to deliver the presentation using your own laptop computer.

GUIDELINES FOR POSTER PRESENTATIONS

The posters should printed, up to 48 inches by 48 inches, and may be in landscape or portrait orientation. Please bring the posters to the Ballroom between 12:30pm and 2:30pm on the first day of the workshop, and hang these in assigned spaces in the reception area between 2:30 and 3pm.

Background

The overall goal of this workshop series is to foster a discourse in translational research in image-guided therapy in the NIH-funded community, and to communicate the availability of NCIGT as a national resource for tools and technologies in the field. Similar to previous workshops in this series, attendance is expected of members of academia, industry, and federal agencies interested in image-guided interventions.

Important Dates

• Abstracts due by January 25, 2016. Please submit here. (We are using the EasyChair conference management website).
• Acceptance decisions emailed to authors by February 1, 2016.
• Camera ready copies of the abstracts due by February 20, 2016 on the EasyChair website

Registration

To register for the workshop, please click here.  Please note, the registration fee is to be paid by all presenters, both oral and poster.

Financial support towards the registration fee is available for students/fellows/junior faculty who would otherwise not be able to attend the meeting.  After submitting your abstract, please email us to indicate your interest in this support, and we will do our best to accommodate you.

Call for Abstracts

Abstract submissions are solicited for the 8th National Image-Guided Therapy workshop, a translational research workshop that brings together NIH funded researchers in areas of image-guided surgery, interventional radiology, adaptive radiation therapy, image-guided drug delivery, image-guided robotics, and imaging informatics.  The workshop is a single track meeting that includes oral and poster presentations of refereed abstracts, invited talks, individual interactions with NIH Programs Staff, and industrial exhibits.  The 2016 workshop will be held on March 15-16 at the Hyatt Regency Hotel, Bethesda, MD.

Abstract Submission process: Electronic submissions will be accepted until Monday, January 25, 2016, 11pm Pacific Standard Time on the EasyChair conference management website.

Abstract Guidelines

• • Abstracts should be 1 page (8.5 inch x 11 inch page, US letter size), submitted in acrobat pdf format, with 1 inch margins, maximum 6 lines per inch (single spaced in software such as MS Word), in size 11 Arial Font.
  • Abstract submissions should include Title, Author(s), Affiliation(s), and five sections: Purpose, Methods, Results, Conclusions, Funding Source(s), identified by bold headers.
  • Funding source(s) for the work, if any, must be acknowledged in the abstract.
  • Images in abstracts are encouraged.
  • Please do not submit material that is not ready for public dissemination, or has been previously published in the form that you submit for this workshop.
  • The program committee will review all submissions, and assign acceptances to either poster or oral presentation.
  • Submission Page

Poster guidelines

The posters should printed, up to 48 inches by 48 inches, and may be in landscape or portrait orientation. Please bring the posters to the workshop room (which will be announced here) between times (which will be announced here) on the first day of the workshop, and hang these in assigned spaces.

Chairs

Tina Kapur, PhD | Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School
Kevin Cleary, PhD | Childrens National Health System
Keyvan Farahani, PhD | National Cancer Institute

Registered Attendees

1. Nathalie Agar :: Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School
2. Michelle Arkhangorodsky :: Princess Margaret Hospital University of Toronto
3. Dmitri Artemov :: Johns Hopkins University
4. Lauren Barber :: National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health
5. Walter Block :: University of Wisconsin-Madison
6. Emily Blum :: Chidren’s National Medical Center
7. Ethan Brodsky :: University of Wisconsin
8. Danielle Chamberlain :: Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School
9. Shing Shin Cheng :: University of Maryland
10. Kevin Cleary :: Chidren’s National Medical Center
11. Richard Conroy :: NIBIB/National Institutes of Health
12. Andre Cote :: University of California San Francisco
13. Michael Daly :: University of Toronto
14. Jana Delfino :: Food and Drug Admin
15. Jaydev Desai :: University of Maryland
16. Kai Ding :: Johns Hopkins University
17. Kate Egan :: NIBIB/National Institutes of Health
18. Andinet Enquobahrie :: Kitware, Inc.
19. Avinash Eranki :: National Institutes of Health
20. Zeynep Erim :: National Institutes of Health
21. Keyvan Farahani :: National Institutes of Health
22. Andriy Fedorov :: Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School
23. Barry Fetics :: Robin Medical, Inc.
24. Gregory Fischer :: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
25. Thomas Foo :: GE
26. Sarah Frisken :: Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School
27. Neil Glossop :: Queen’s University
28. Alexandra Golby :: Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School
29. Ruth Grossman :: National Institutes of Health
30. Dieter Haemmerich :: Medical University of South Carolina
31. Ray Harter :: Marvel Medtech LLC
32. Nobuhiko Hata :: Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School
33. John Hazle :: MD Anderson Cancer Center
34. Lori Henderson :: National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health
35. Steven Hetts :: University of California San Francisco
36. Greg Hintz :: Varian Medical Systems
37. Lennox Hoyte :: University of South Florida
38. Danying Hu :: University of Washington
39. Jayender Jagadeesan :: Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School
40. Takahiro Jimbo :: University of Tsukuba
41. Caroline Jordan :: University of California San Francisco
42. Kris Kandarpa :: National Institutes of Health
43. Tina Kapur :: Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School
44. Margot Kern :: NIBIB/National Institutes of Health
45. Shadab Khan :: Dartmouth College
46. Pierre Khuri-Yakub :: Stanford University
47. Alexander Klibanov :: University of Virginia
48. Sravani Kondapavulur :: University of California San Francisco
49. Axel Krieger :: Chidren’s National Medical Center
50. Steve Krosnick :: NIBIB/National Institutes of Health
51. Gang Li :: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
52. Fake Lu :: Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School
53. Reza Monfaredi :: Chidren’s National Medical Center
54. Erez Nevo :: Robin Medical, Inc.
55. Marco Nolden :: German Cancer Research Center Heidelberg
56. Robert Nordstrom :: National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health
57. Lauren O’Donnell :: Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School
58. Keith Obstein :: Vanderbilt University
59. Miles Olsen :: University of Wisconsin
60. Niravkumar Patel :: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
61. Sunil Patil :: Siemens
62. Steve Pieper :: Isomics, Inc.
63. Frank Preiswerk :: Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School
64. Xiaokun Hu Qingdao :: University Hospital China
65. Milind Rajadhyaksha :: Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
66. Brian Rodgers :: National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health
67. Pooneh Roshani :: Chidren’s National Medical Center
68. Nicole Samec :: Magic Leap
69. Hongqiang Sang :: Chidren’s National Medical Center
70. Eric Seibel :: University of Washington
71. Hasan Sen :: Johns Hopkins University
72. Heidy Sierra :: Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
73. Jeffrey Siewerdsen :: Johns Hopkins University
74. Joyce Silva :: University of Sao Paulo
75. Michael Simonson :: University of Wisconsin
76. John Snell :: Focused Ultrasound Foundation
77. Sam Song :: University of Central Florida
78. Greg Sorensen :: IMRIS, Inc.
79. Alexander Squires :: University of Georgia
80. Teodor Stanescu :: National Institutes of Health
81. Maie Stjohn :: UCLA
82. Manana Sukhareva :: National Institutes of Health
83. Hadi Talari :: Chidren’s National Medical Center
84. Pushpa Tandon :: National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health
85. Austin Taylor :: University of Georgia
86. Clare Tempany :: Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School
87. Zion Tsz Ho Tse :: University of Georgia
88. Tamas Ungi :: Queen’s University
89. Pietro Valdastri :: Vanderbilt University
90. Thomas Vaughan :: Queen’s University
91. Bhadrasain Vikram :: National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health
92. Ian Walling :: Albany Medical College
93. Ken Kang-Hsin Wang :: Johns Hopkins University
94. William Wells :: Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School
95. Emmanuel Wilson :: Chidren’s National Medical Center
96. Rosemary Wong :: National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health
97. Xiaotian Wu :: Dartmouth College
98. Kevin Wu :: University of Georgia
99. Allison Wyman :: University of California San Francisco
100. Pavel Yarmolenko :: National Institutes of Health
101. Desmond Teck Beng Yeo :: GE
102. Chunwang Yuan :: Beijing YouAn Hospital
103. Feng Zhang :: University of Washington

The 6^th National Image Guided Therapy Workshop

The 6^th 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. The meeting was held in conjunction with SMIT (Society for Medical Innovation and Technology). The program was divided into 9 oral sessions and a poster session. It included 46 talks and 40 poster presentations. The NCIGT/NIH portion of the workshop consisted of 7 oral sessions (Cardiac; Pelvis; Robotics; NIH (NCI, NIBIB) Programs Directions; Intra-Operative, Optical, Fluorescent Imaging and Medical Image Computing). The SMIT section consisted of a session each on Emerging Technologies for Minimally Invasive Interventions and High Intensity Focused Ultrasound. There was a combined poster session with 40 poster presentations. On March 23rd, there was a tour of the operating rooms at CNMC (Children’s National Medical Center) and the Sheikh Zayed Institute for Pediatric Surgical Innovation.

2013 Workshop Proceedings

Date and Venue

Date: March 21-23, 2013.

Venue: We have a block of rooms booked at the conference hotel, the DoubleTree by Hilton Washington DC in Crystal City, VA at the rate of $189.00 USD/night plus tax. A limited number of rooms at $109.00 USD/night is available for Friday. Use the link to book at group rate, or use group code IGM. This rate will be available until 28 February 2013. You can also call Reservations at 1-800-222-8733 and ask for the “Image Guided Therapy Workshop” Room Block (group code IGM).

Hotel Contact Information

DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel Washington DC-Crystal City,
300 Army Navy Drive, Arlington, Virginia 22202
Phone: 1.703.416.4100

Registration Link

The registration fee for this event is $300. All speakers, poster presenters, and attendees must register using this link.

Program

Thursday, March 21, 2013
Salon A DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel Washington DC-Crystal City, VA
Session	Time	Title	Presenter
	9:00 AM	Registration Opens, with Coffee
	10:00-10:10 AM	Opening Remarks	Ferenc Jolesz, MD, Harvard Medical School
	10:10-10:30 AM	A Novel Multimodal Nanoparticle Platform for Combined Diagnostic and Intraoperative Cancer Imaging	Moritz Kircher, MD, PhD, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
SESSION I: Cardiac Session Chair: Ehud Schmidt, PhD
	10:30 AM	MRI-guided Atrial-Fibrillation Radio-Frequency Ablation in Humans: What’s Accomplished & Hurdles that Remain towards Practical Procedures	Ehud Schmidt, PhD, Harvard Medical School
	10:45 AM	Accelerated MRI Acquisition and Reconstruction for Cardiovascular Interventions	Michael Hansen, PhD, NHLBI Intramural
	11:00 AM	Utility of MRI for Complex VT Ablations	Saman Nazarian, MD, PhD, Johns Hopkins
	11:15 AM	MRI-guided Cardiovascular Interventions: The NIH Experience	Anthony Faranesh, PhD, NHLBI Intramural
	11:30 AM	Challenges and Promises of CMR Roadmap for Electrophysiology	Reza Nazafat, PhD, Harvard Medical School
	11:45 AM	Endovascular Catheter for Magnetic Navigation under MRI Guidance: Evaluation of Safety In Vivo at 1.5T	Steven Hetts, MD, University of California San Francisco
	12:00-1:30 PM	Buffet Lunch and Poster Session | Lincoln Hall
SESSION II: Pelvis Session Chair: Clare Tempany, MD
	1:30 PM	3T MR-guided Prostate Interventions at Brigham and Women’s Hospital	Clare Tempany, MD, Harvard Medical School
	1:45 PM	MR/US Fusion Biopsy of the Prostate	Peter Choyke, MD, NIH
	2:00 PM	In vivo Acoustic Radiation Force Impulse (ARFI) Elasticity Imaging of Prostate	Kathy Nightingale, PhD, Duke University
	2:15 PM	A PET-directed, 3D Ultrasound-guided Biopsy System	Fei Baowei, PhD, Emory
	2:30 PM	Real-time Catheter Tracking and Visualization in 3-T MR-Guided Brachytherapy	Akila Viswanathan, MD, Brigham and Women’s Hospital
	2:45-3:30 PM	Break and Poster Session | Lincoln Hall
SESSION III: Robotics Session Chair: Noby Hata, PhD
	3:30 PM	Clinical Implementation of a Smart Template for 3T MRI-guided Transperineal Targeted Prostate Biopsy	Noby Hata, PhD, Harvard Medical School
	3:45 PM	Medical Robotics and Computer-Integrated Interventional Medicine	Russ Taylor, PhD, Johns Hopkins University
	4:00 PM	Towards Robot-Assisted Neurosurgery Under Continuous MRI	Jaydev Desai, PhD, University of Maryland
	4:15 PM	Advanced Biophotonics for Robotic Image-guidance of Brain Surgery Phantoms	Eric Seibel, PhD, University of Washington
	4:30 PM	Image-guided Robotic Surgery Inside the Beating Heart	Pierre Dupont, PhD, Children’s Hospital, Boston
	4:45 PM	Integrated 3D Tracked Ultrasound Image Guided Steerable Needle Directionally-conformable Therapeutic Ultrasound Minimally-invasive Interventional Therapy	Clif Burdette, PhD, Acoustic Medical Inc.
	5:00-7:30 PM	Buffet Dinner and Poster Session | Lincoln Hall
Friday, March 22, 2013
Salon A DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel Washington DC-Crystal City, VA
Session	Time	Title	Presenter
	7:30-8:00 AM	Breakfast | Lincoln Hall
SESSION IV: NIH (NCI, NIBIB) Programs Directions
	8:00 AM	NCI Initiatives in Image-Guided Interventions	Keyvan Farahani, PhD, NCI
	8:15 AM	NIBIB Directions	Steve Krosnick, MD, NIH/NIBIB
SESSION V: Intra-Operative, Optical, Fluorescent Imaging Session Chair: Keyvan Farahani, PhD
	8:30 AM	Fluorescence Image-Guided Surgery of Nerves	Christina Tan Hehir, PhD, GE Research
	8:50 AM	In-situ Augmentation for Image-Guided Microsurgery	John Galeotti, PhD and George Stetten, MD, PhD, Carnegie Mellon University
	9:10 AM	Quantitative Endoscopy for High Accuracy Navigation	Greg Hager, PhD, Johns Hopkins University
	9:30 AM	Improved MR Thermometry Processing for MR-guided FUS in the Brain	Kim Butts Pauly, PhD, Stanford University
	9:50 AM	Ultrasound Registration and Visualization for Neuronavigation	Matthew Toews, PhD, Brigham and Women’s Hospital
	10:10 AM	Motion-tracked Thermometry and Relaxometry using a US-MRI Hybrid Acquisition	Bruno Madore, PhD, Brigham and Women’s Hospital
	10:30-11:00 AM	Break | Lincoln Hall
SESSION VI: Medical Image Computing Session Chair: Ron Kikinis, MD
	11:00 AM	Prototyping Clinical Applications with the Public Library for Ultrasound (PLUS) Toolkit and 3D Slicer	Gabor Fichtinger, PhD, Queens University
	11:20 AM	Neuroimage Analysis for Intra-Procedural Imaging	Steve Pieper, PhD, Isomics, Inc.
	11:40 AM	Emerging CT-imaging Technology and its Implications to Image-guided Therapy	Xiaochun Pan, PhD, Chicago Cancer Center
	12:00-1:30 PM	Buffet Lunch and Poster Session | Lincoln Hall
SMIT 25th Anniversary Opening Session: Emerging Technologies for Minimally Invasive Interventions
	1:30 PM	Improving Surgical Outcomes	Paul Wetter, MD, Society of Laparoendoscopic Surgeons
	1:50 PM	Innovations in Information-Intensive Interventions: MRI-guided Procedures	Jonathan Lewin, MD, Johns Hopkins University
	2:10 PM	Advanced Mapping for Cardiac Interventions	Marek Orban, MD, ICRC Brno. Czech Republic & TBN, Mayo Clinic Rochester
	2:30 PM	Ultrasound-Guided Interventions	Purang Abolmaesumi, PhD, University of British Columbia, Canada
	2:50 PM	Navigation and Ultrasound Guided Therapy	Thomas Langø, PhD, Trondheim
	3:10 PM	Imaging Robotics	Gernot Kronreif, PhD, Austrian Center for Medically Innovative Technology
	3:30-4:00 PM	Break | Lincoln Hall
SMIT Session II: High Intensity Focused Ultrasound
	4:00 PM	State of the Art of Brain FUS	Neal Kassell, MD, University of Virginia, Focused Ultrasound Foundation
	4:24 PM	Novel Clinical Application	Arik Hananel, MD, Focused Ultrasound Foundation
	4:48 PM	HIFU Potential for Pediatrics	Peter Kim, MD, Children’s National Medical Center
	5:12 PM	FUS Mediated Targeted Drug Delivery	Brad Wood, MD, NIH Clinical Center
	5:36 PM	FUS and Beyond	Andreas Melzer, MD, University of Dundee
	6:00 PM	Optional Self-Pay Group Dinner in Crystal City

Saturday, March 23

• 8:30 am: Bus Pickup at DoubleTree Hotel for Children’s National Medical Center
• 9:00 am: Arrive Children’s, coffee service available in lobby
• 9:30 am: Overview of pediatric procedures and research: auditorium
  • Orthopedics: Matthew Oetgen, MD
  • Interventional Cardiology: Josh Kanter, MD
  • Interventional Radiology: Karun Sharma, MD, PhD
  • Robotic Urological Surgery: Amy Burns, MD
  • Laparoscopic Surgery: Tim Kane, MD
  • ENT Surgery: Diego Preciado, MD
• 11:30 am-12:50 pm: Children’s tours by rotating groups
  • Group 1: Operating rooms
    • Siemens Zeego
    • Da Vinci Robot
  • Group 2: Pain Clinic
  • Group 3: Sheikh Zayed Institute
    • STAR Robot
    • Bioengineering Lab
• 12:50-1:30pm: Buffet Lunch on 6th Floor Atrium
• 1:30 pm: Bus return to DoubleTree
• Optional: Afternoon Museum Tour (free)

Poster Presentations

All posters will be presented during each of the poster sessions of the meeting.

Abdomen

1. Anand Patel, Erin Yee, Aaron Losey, Prasheel Lillaney, Mark Wilson and Steven Hetts. Intravenous Chemotherapy Filter (ChemoFilter): Prototype and In-vitro Proof-of-Concept of a Novel Device for High Dose Intra-arterial Chemotherapy Delivery
2. Carlos Mendoza, Xin Kang, Nabile Safdar, Craig Peters and Marius George Linguraru. Semi-Automatic Kidney Quantification for Surgical Decision Making in Hydronephrosis
3. Cheng Hong, Sheng Xu, Ankur Kapoor, Nadine Abi-Jaoudeh, Kimberly Imbesi, Charisse Garcia, Aradhana Venkatesan, Elliot Levy, Richard Chang and Bradford Wood. Methods for assisting Needle Angle Selection during CT-guided Biopsies
4. Everette Burdette and Goutam Ghoshal. In vivo treatment of pig liver using Steerable Needle Therapeutic Ultrasound with Combined Imaging and Electromagnetic Tracking System
5. Rahul Khare, Kevin Cleary, Linan Zhang, Emmanuel Wilson, Patrick Cheng and Craig Peters. Towards a Framework for Robotically Assisted Ureteroscopy
6. Marco Beccani, Christian Di Natali, Mark Rentschler and Pietro Valdastri. Proof of Concept of Wireless Tissue Palpation in Abdominal Surgery
7. Andrew Holbrook and Kim Butts Pauly. MR-guided Focused Ultrasound System for Continuous Breathing Liver Ablation

Brain, Head and Neck, Eye

1. Jacqueline Esthappan, Yanle Hu and Perry Grigsby. MR-Guided Episcleral Plaque Brachytherapy for Uveal Melanoma
2. Steven Hetts, Alastair Martin, Christopher Dowd, Van Halbach, Randall Higashida, Michael McDermott and David Saloner. Intraarterial MR Perfusion Imaging of Meningiomas: Comparison to Digital Subtraction Angiography
3. Benjamin Grabow, Raghu Raghavan, Martin Brady, Ken Kubota, Chris Ross, Ethan Brodsky, James Raschke, Andrew Alexander and Walter Block. Systematic Investigation of Convection-enhanced Delivery Infusion Protocols and Catheters Using Real-time MRI
4. Lauren O’Donnell, Jiaolong Cui, Neelan Marianayagam, Kelly Doolin, Isaiah Norton, Yanmei Tie, Laura Rigolo, Alexandra J. Golby. Single vs. Multiple Tensor Diffusion Tractography: Which is Better Correlated with Function?
5. Wen Li, William Plishker, Junghoon Lee, John Wong and Raj Shekhar. Subminute Deformable Image Registration for Image-guided Radiation Therapy

Cardiovascular

1. Aaron D. Losey, Alastair J. Martin, Prasheel Lillaney, Erin J. Yee, Mark W. Wilson, Maythem Saeed, Loi Do and Steven W. Hetts. Development of a Novel Vascular Phantom for Navigation Testing in Interventional MRI
2. Aaron Losey, Prasheel Lillaney, Alastair J. Martin, Mark Wilson, Maythem Saeed, Erin J. Yee and Steven Hetts. An Evaluation of RF Heating in a Nitinol Braided Endovascular Catheter at 1.5T and 3T
3. Christopher Haggerty, Maria Restrepo, Kirk Kanter, Timothy Slesnick, Jarek Rossignac, Thomas Spray, Mark Fogel and Ajit Yoganathan. Image-Based Computational Simulations for Patient-Specific Fontan Surgery Planning
4. Alastair Martin, Prasheel Lillaney, Fabio Settecase, Lee Evans, Mark Wilson and Steven Hetts. Intra-Arterial MRA based Roadmapping for Magnetically-Assisted Remote Control Catheter Tracking
5. Prasheel Lillaney, Vincent Malba, Lelande Evans, Anthony Bernhardt, Mark Wilson, Timothy Roberts, Alastair Martin, Maythem Saeed, Ronald Arenson and Steven Hetts. Catheters for Interventional MR: Fabrication of Micro-Coils for Catheter Tip Deflection
6. Martin Rajchl, Feng P. Li, John Moore, Chris Wedlake, Usaf Aladl and Terry M. Peters. Feature Tracking for Image-guided Mitral Valve Repair
7. Feng Li, Martin Rajchl, John Moore, Chris Wedlake and Terry Peters. CT-Enhanced Ultrasound for Guidance of Off-pump Beating Heart Interventions

Muscoskeletal

1. Jan Egger, Tina Kapur, Bernd Freisleben and Christopher Nimsky. Interactive Real-Time Segmentation for Vertebral Bodies and Intervertebral Discs in Sagittal Planes
2. Roberto Blanco Sequeiros, Matti Vähäkari, Risto Ojala, Pekka Kerimaa, Jussi Korhonen, Juha Jaakko Sinikumpu and Osmo Tervonen. Osteochodritis Dissecans of the Knee; MRI Guided Retrograde Drilling at 1.5 T and First Clinical Outcomes in Pediatric Patients.
3. Everette Burdette and Goutam Ghoshal. In-vivo Treatment of Spine Tumors using Needle Based Therapeutic Ultrasound under Image Guidance with 3D Electromagnetic Tracking
4. Elvis Chen and Terry Peters. An Integrated Ultrasound-guided, Magnetic-tracked, Spine Needle System
5. Laura Bartha, Andras Lasso, Csaba Pinter, Tamas Ungi and Gabor Fichtinger. The Perk Tutor Training Platform Integrated with Simulated Ultrasound
6. Manjunath Anand, Tamas Ungi, Andras Lasso, Paweena U-Thainual, Jagadeesan Jayender, Jan Fritz, John Carrino, Ferenc Jolesz and Gabor Fichtinger. Mobile Image Overlay sSystem for Image-guided Interventions

Pelvis

1. Amir Tahmasebi, Reza Sharifi, Harsh Agarwal, Baris Turkbey, M Bernardo, Peter Choyke, Peter Pinto, Brad Wood and Jochen Kruecker. Deformable Registration of Prostate MRI using Statistical Deformation Modeling
2. Perry Grigsby, Katie Fowler, Barry Siegel and Farrokh Dehdashti. Prospective Evaluation of Simultaneous PET/MRI and PET/CT in Cervical Cancer
3. Reza Seifabadi, Esteban Escobar Gomez, Fereshteh Aalamifar, Gabor Fichtinger and Iulian Iordachita. Real-Time 3D Needle Shape Tracking Using Fiber Bragg Grating Sensors for Prostate Percutaneous Interventions
4. Tobias Penzkofer, Kemal Tuncali, Andriy Fedorov, Junichi Tokuda, Sang-Eun Song, Fiona Fennessy, Nobuhiko Hata and Clare Tempany. Transperineal Prostate Biopsy: Update on Multireader, Multiparametric Navigated Interventions
5. Robert Cormack. Preliminary Experience with a Software System to Enable MR-Guided Adaptive Brachytherapy of the Pelvis
6. Andriy Fedorov, Andras Lasso, Mehdi Moradi, Emily Neubauer Sugar, Sang-Eun Song, Robert Owen, Tina Kapur, William M Wells, Paul Nguyen, Gabor Fichtinger and Clare Tempany. Towards Open Source Infrastructure for Joint MRI/TRUS Guided Prostate Interventions

Robotics

1. Santhi Elayaperumal, Mark Cutkosky and Bruce Daniel. Development of a Passive Master-Slave System for MR-Guided Interventions
2. James Goldie, Kristen Leroy, Brendan Labrecque, Kevin Cleary, Emmanuel Wilson, Katherine Davenport and Daniel Swerdlow. Evaluation of Force, Torque, and Range of Motion Exhibited during Abdominal Ultrasound Exam of Phantom and Human Subjects to Set Requirements for Robot-assisted Ultrasound
3. Bamshad Azizi Koutenaei, Risto Kojcev, Emmanuel Wilson, Kevin A. Gary, Nassir Navab and Kevin Cleary. Integrated and Teleoperated System for Wireless Robotic Natural Orifice Transluminal Endoscopic Surgery (R-NOTES)
4. Yilun Koethe, Sheng Xu, Gnanasekar Velusamy, Bradford Wood and Aradhana Venkatesan. New Developments in Robotic Navigation and Guidance for Image-guided Interventions
5. Sang-Eun Song, Kemal Tuncali, Junichi Tokuda, Andriy Fedorov, Tobias Penzkofer, Clare Tempany and Nobuhiko Hata. Preliminary Observations on MRI-guided Targeted Prostate Biopsy using a Smart Template
6. Simon Leonard, Yonjae Kim, Carolyn Cochenour, Kyle Wu, Peter Kim and Axel Krieger. Smart Tissue Anastomosis Robot (STAR)

Computation

1. Ren Hui Gong, Özgür Güler and Ziv Yaniv. Interactive Initialization for 2D/3D Intra-Operative Registration using the Microsoft Kinect
2. Hasan Sen and Peter Kazanzides. Dynamic Tracking with Electromagnetic Systems Using Particle Filters
3. Tamas Ungi, Junichi Tokuda, Adam Rankin, Andras Lasso and Gabor Fichtinger. Prototyping Image-guided Therapy Applications using the SlicerIGT Platform

Workshop Chairs

• Ferenc Jolesz, MD, Brigham and Women’s Hospital & Harvard Medical School, Boston
• Clare Tempany, MD, Brigham and Women’s Hospital & Harvard Medical School, Boston
• Kevin Cleary, PhD, Children’s National Medical Center, Washington DC
• Andreas Melzer, MD, University of Dundee
• Michael Marohn, MD, Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions

Program Chairs

• Tina Kapur, PhD, Brigham and Women’s Hospital & Harvard Medical School, Boston
• Raj Shekhar, PhD, Children’s National Medical Center, Washington DC
• Keyvan Farahani, PhD, National Cancer Institute, NIH, Bethesda, MD
• Steven Krosnick, MD, National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering, NIH, Bethesda, MD

Program Committee

• Ron Kikinis, MD
• William M. Wells, PhD
• Alexandra Golby, MD
• Noby Hata, PhD
• Bruno Madore, PhD
• Ehud Schmidt, PhD
• Nathan McDannold, PhD
• Andriy Fedorov, PhD
• Marius Linguraru, PhD
• Ziv Yaniv, PhD

Call for Poster Abstracts

Prospective attendees are encouraged to submit abstracts describing their research in image-guided therapy for consideration in the Oral and Poster Sessions of the workshop. Please note that the abstracts will be published in a workshop proceedings and made available publicly on the workshop website, so do not submit material that is not ready for public dissemination.

Abstracts should include Title, Author(s), Affiliation(s), and four sections: Purpose, Methods, Results, and Conclusions, identified by bold headers. Abstracts should be 1 page, submitted in acrobat pdf format, with 1-inch margins in size 11 Arial Font. All submissions will be reviewed by the Program Committee of the workshop for scientific merit and program relevance and assigned to either oral or poster (23″x33″ Portrait format) presentation.

Submission site

Abstracts are due by February 8, 2013.

Important Dates

• February 8, 2013: Abstract Submission Deadline
• February 12, 2013: Author Notification
• February 19, 2013: Early Registration Deadline (Required for Presenters)

Registered Attendees as of March 20, 2013.

1. Purang Abolmaesumi :: University of British Columbia
2. Manjunath Anand :: Queen’s University
3. Bamshad Azizi :: Children’s National Medical Center
4. Lauren Barber :: Harvard Medical School
5. Roberto Blanco Sequeiros :: Oulu University Hospital
6. Walter Block :: University of Wisconsin-Madison
7. Everette C Burdette :: Acoustic MedSystems, Inc.
8. Kim Butts Pauly :: Stanford University
9. Jacek Capala :: National Institutes of Health
10. Elvis Chen :: Robarts Research Institution
11. Peter Choyke :: National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health
12. Kevin Cleary :: Children’s National Medical Center
13. Neal Clinthorne :: Xoran Technologies Inc.
14. Bahar Dasgeb :: National Institutes of Health
15. Jana Delfino :: Food and Drug Admin
16. Jaydev Desai :: University of Maryland College Park
17. Pierre Dupont :: Boston Children’s Hospital
18. Santhi Elayaperumal :: Stanford University
19. Andinet Enquobahrie :: Kitware, Inc.
20. Greg Evans :: National Cancer Institute, SBIR Development Center
21. Keyvan Farahani :: National Institutes of Health
22. Anthony Faranesh :: National Heart Lung and Blood Institute
23. Andriy Fedorov :: Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School
24. Baowei Fei :: Emory University
25. Gabor Fichtinger :: Queen’s University
26. John Galeotti :: Carnegie Mellon University
27. Jason Geng :: Xigen LLC
28. Goutam Ghoshal :: Acoustic MedSystems, Inc.
29. Neil Glossop :: Queen’s University
30. Alexandra Golby :: Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School
31. Ren Hui Gong :: Children’s National Medical Center
32. Perry Grigsby :: Washington University School of Medicine
33. Ozgur Guler :: Children’s National Medical Center
34. Rao Gullapalli :: University of Maryland School of Medicine
35. Gregory Hager :: Johns Hopkins University
36. Michael Hansen :: National Institutes of Health
37. Nobuhiko Hata :: Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School
38. Steven Hetts :: University of California San Francisco
39. David Holmes :: Mayo Clinic
40. Cheng Hong :: National Institutes of Health
41. Iulian Iordachita :: Johns Hopkins University
42. Ferenc Jolesz :: Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School
43. Tina Kapur :: Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School
44. Rahul Khare :: Children’s National Medical Center
45. Ron Kikinis :: Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School
46. Yilun Koethe :: National Institutes of Health
47. Doron Kopelman :: Emek Medical Center Israel
48. Daniel Kostro :: Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School
49. Axel Krieger :: Children’s National Medical Center
50. Gernot Kronreif :: Austrian Center for Medical Innovation and Technology (ACMIT)
51. Steven Krosnick :: NIBIB/National Institutes of Health
52. Brendan LaBrecque :: Vivonics Inc.
53. Thomas Langø :: SINTEF
54. Andras Lasso :: Queen’s University
55. Jonathan Lewin :: Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
56. Wen Li :: Children’s National Medical Center
57. Senhu Li :: Xoran Technologies Inc.
58. Anlin Linan :: Children’s National Medical Center
59. Marius George Linguraru :: Children’s National Medical Center
60. Bruno Madore :: Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School
61. Andreas Melzer :: IMSaT Dundee
62. Reza Monfaredi :: Children’s National Medical Center
63. Deepa Narayanan :: National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health
64. Saman Nazarian :: Johns Hopkins Hospital
65. Reza Nezafat :: BIDMC & Harvard Medical School
66. Kathy Nightingale :: Duke University
67. Lauren O’Donnell :: Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School
68. Marek Orban :: St. Anne’s University Hospital Brno
69. Sunil Patil :: Siemens
70. Tobias Penzkofer :: Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School
71. Terry Peters :: Robarts Research Institution
72. Steve Pieper :: Isomics, Inc.
73. Maria Restrepo :: Georgia Institute of Technology
74. Corey Ryan :: KUKA Robotics
75. Emam Saleh :: Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School
76. Ehud Schmidt :: Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School
77. Susan Scott :: Focused Ultrasound Foundation
78. Eric Seibel :: University of Washington
79. Reza Seifabadi :: Johns Hopkins University
80. Hasan Sen :: Johns Hopkins University
81. Azad Shademan :: Children’s National Medical Center
82. Raj Shekhar :: Chidren’s National Medical Center
83. George Stetten :: University of Pittsburgh/CMU Robotics
84. Yu Sun :: University of South Florida
85. Amir Tahmasebi :: Philips
86. Cristina Tan Hehir :: GE Global Research
87. Russell Taylor :: Johns Hopkins University
88. Clare Tempany :: Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School
89. Matthew Toews :: Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School
90. Tamas Ungi :: Queen’s University
91. Pietro Valdastri :: Vanderbilt University
92. Akila Viswanathan :: Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School
93. Cyrill von Tiesenhausen :: KUKA Laboratories GmbH
94. Wei Wang :: Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School
95. Paul Wetter :: Society of Laparoendoscopic Surgeons’
96. Emmanuel Wilson :: Children’s National Medical Center
97. Bradford Wood :: National Institutes of Health
98. Ziv Yaniv :: Children’s National Medical Center
99. Pavel Yarmolenko :: National Institutes of Health

The 5^th National Image Guided Therapy Workshop

The 5^th 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.

Workshop Proceedings

Program

September 21, 2012
Joseph B. Martin Conference Center Harvard Medical School 77 Avenue Louis Pasteur, Boston, MA.
7:00 AM	First Shuttle Pick up at Marriott Copley
7:45 AM	Second Shuttle Pick up at Marriott Copley
Session	Time	Title	Presenter
8:00 AM	Breakfast
8:30-10:00 AM SESSION I: Ultrasound Guided Therapy Moderators: Jim Duncan, PhD Gabor Fichtinger, PhD Stephen Aylward, PhD Sandy Wells, PhD
	8:30 AM	4D Echocardiography – Derived LV Strain for Therapy Guidance and Response Assessment	Jim Duncan, PhD, Yale University
	8:45 AM	SlicerIGT: an Open Source Platform for Image-guided Therapy	Gabor Fichtinger, PhD, Queens University
	9:00 AM	Understanding Tumor Micro-environments: Targeting Biopsies	Stephen Aylward, PhD, Kitware Inc.
	9:15 AM	Spotlight: Intra-operative 3D Visualization, Annotation and Needle Guidance for Live Ultrasound and Registered Pre-operative Scans	Andrei State, MSCS, Dipl.-Ing.aer, InnerOptic Inc.
	9:30 AM	Mixed Reality Guidance of Intra-cardiac Beating Heart Surgery for Valve Repair	Terry Peters, PhD, Robarts Research Institute
	9:45 AM	Intraprocedure Acoustic Radiation Force Impulse Imaging of Radiofrequency Ablation Lesions: Initial Clinical Results	Tristram Bahnson, MD, Duke University
10:00-10:30 AM	Coffee Break
10:30-12:00 PM SESSION II: Histopathology Based Validation Moderators: Kristy Brock, PhD Nathalie Agar, PhD Kirby Vosburgh, PhD
	10:30 AM	A Biomechanical Model-Based Approach to Correlative Pathology for Image Validation	Kristy Brock, PhD, University of Toronto
	10:45 AM	Mass Spectrometry Imaging Applications for Surgical Pathology	Nathalie Agar, PhD, Harvard Medical School
	11:00 AM	Imaging Tumor Margins with a Mobile Large Area Confocal Scanner: Initial Testing in the Pathology Department	Sanjee Abeytunge, MS, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
	11:15 AM	Imaging of Vessel Patency in Thiel Embalmed Liver	Matthew Pendleton, BSc, Institute of Medical Sciences and Technology, University of Dundee
	11:30 AM	Adjustable Sleeve Template Assembly Device for Joint MR/US-guided Diagnosis and Treatment of Prostate Cancer: Initial Design and Feasibility Evaluation	Andriy Fedorov, PhD, Harvard Medical School
	11:45 AM	Validation of THz Imaging for Burn Surgery Using MR	Neha Bajwa, MS, UCLA
12:00-1:30 PM	Lunch and Poster Session
1:30-2:30 PM SESSION III: Molecular Imaging Guided Therapy Moderators: Michelle Bradbury, MD, PhD, MSKCC Clare Tempany, MD
	1:30 PM	Clinical Translated Silica Nanoparticles as PET-Optical Probes for Image Guided Interventions	Michelle Bradbury, MD, PhD, MSKCC
	1:45 PM	Nanocolloids for Integrating Imaging Characterization with Targeted Therapy	Gregory M. Lanza, MD, PhD, Washington University
	2:00 PM	Nanotechnologies for Image-Guided Therapies	Sri Sridhar, PhD, Northeastern University
	2:15 PM	Feasibility of Using Simultaneous PET/MR in the Evaluation of Cervical Carcinoma	Perry Grigsby, MD, Washington University School of Medicine
2:30-3:00 PM	Coffee Break
3:00-5:15 PM SESSION IV: Mixed Topics Moderators: Sandy Wells, PhD Robert Howe, PhD
	3:00 PM	Ultrasound-Guided Fast Robotic Catheters for Beating Heart Surgery	Samuel Kesner, PhD, Harvard University
	3:15 PM	MRIgRT Facility Design: Magnetic Field Decoupling of an MRI-on-rails from a Linear Accelerator	Teo Stanescu, PhD, Princess Margaret Cancer Centre
	3:30 PM	Abdominal Surface Registration in Percutaneous Image-Guided Therapy	James Stefansic, PhD, Pathfinder Therapeutics, Inc.
	3:45 PM	New Developments in Gradient-based Tracking for MRI	Erez Nevo, MD, DSc, Robin Medical, Inc.
	4:00 PM	Tracking of 19F labeled Interventional Devices by means of 3D Golden Angle Radial Sampling	Tobias Hahn, MSc, University and ETH Zurich
	4:15 PM	3D Slicer Based Real Time Registration for Planning Image Guided Laser Induced Thermal Therapy Interventions	Erol Yeniaras, PhD, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
	4:30 PM	Deformation Compensation Strategies for Image Guided Surgery Using Sparse Data	Michel Miga, PhD, Vanderbilt University
	4:45 PM	MRI-guided Fully Actuated Robotic Prostate Biopsy and Brachytherapy	Hao Su, MS, Worcester Polytechnic Institute
	5:00 PM	Patient Image Viewing for Facilitating Interventional Device Placement	Andrew Holbrook, PhD, Stanford University
5:45 PM	Shuttle Pick #1 up at Conference Center First Stop Marriott Copley Hotel, Boston. Second Stop Faculty Dinner at McCormick And Schmick Restaurant, 34 Columbus Ave, Boston.
6:15 PM	Shuttle Pick #2 up at Conference Center Destination Marriott Copley Hotel, Boston.

 

Poster Session

Group A: Interventional CT/Ultrasound

• 1. Image-Guided Robotically-Steerable CT-Compatible Instrument for Multi-Adjacent-Point Targeting | Meysam Torabi, Andrew Harris, Alex Golden, Rajiv Gupta and Conor Walsh
• 2. Enhanced 3D Ultrasound Visualization for Guiding Beating Heart Procedures | Laura Brattain, Nikolay Vasilyev, Pedro Del Nido and Robert Howe
• 3. Ultrasound Volume Reconstruction: Open-Source Implementation with Hole Filling Functionality | Thomas Vaughan, Andras Lasso and Gabor Fichtinger

Group B: Interventional MRI

• 4. Interventional Magnetic Resonance Imaging with an In-room Interactive Touch Device | Martin Alexander Rube, Benjamin F. Cox, Andrew B. Holbrook, Leon Melzer and Andreas Melzer
• 5. Closed-Loop Commutator Control of an MRI-Powered Actuator | Christos Bergeles, Panagiotis Vartholomeos, Lei Qin and Pierre Dupont.
• 6. Magnetic Resonance Imaging for Episcleral Plaque Brachytherapy | Jacqueline Esthappan, Yanle Hu, Carol Bertelsman, Jose Garcia-Ramirez and Perry Grigsby
• 7. Compact, Patient-Mounted MRI-guided Robot for Accurate Positioning of Multiple Cryoablation Probes | Faye Wu, Meysam Torabi, Alex Golden, Michael Werner, Atsushi Yamada, Noby Hata, Hao Su, Greg Cole, Gerg Fischer, Dan Frey, Conor Walsh and Kemal Tuncali
• 8. 4D MRI for MRI-guided liver stereotactic body radiation therapy | Teo Stanescu, Tony Tadic and David Jaffray
• 9. Concurrent 12-Lead ECG & MRI Study of Acute Left Ventricular Ischemia Progressing to Death | Zion Tse, Charles Dumoulin, Ronald Watkins, Kim Butts-Pauly, Israel Byrd, Jeffrey Schweitzer, Raymond Kwong, Gregory Michaud, William Stevenson, Ferenc Jolesz and Ehud Schmidt.
• 10. Swine Model Validation of Multimodality Cardiac Electrophysiology with an MRI-compatible Voltage-based Electroanatomic Mapping System | Zion Tse, Charles Dumoulin, Israel Byrd, Jeffrey Schweitzer, Ronald Watkins, Kim Butts-Pauly, Raymond Kwong, Gregory Michaud, William Stevenson, Ferenc Jolesz and Ehud Schmidt.
• 11. A Performance Evaluation Study of a Motorized Needle Guidance Template for MRI-guided Targeted Prostate Biopsy | Sang-Eun Song, Junichi Tokuda, Kemal Tuncali, Clare Tempany and Nobuhiko Hata
• 12. Evaluation of Commonly Used Devices in the MR Environment | Ramon Martin, Karan Madan, Luigi Nascimben, Daniel Kacher, Chang-Sheng Mei, Lawrence Panych
• 13. Catheter Digitization on T2 MR for Interstitial Gynecologic Brachytherapy using a Hybrid MRI/CT Technique | Antonio Damato, Robert Cormack, Tina Kapur, Ehud Schmidt and Akila Viswanathan.

Group C: Medical Imaging Computing

• 14. Development of Real-time Intraoperative Image Fusion for Laparoscopic Surgery in Pediatrics | Xin Kang, Mahdi Azizian, Emmanuel Wilson, Timothy Kane, Craig Peters and Raj Shekhar
• 15. Pituitary Adenoma Segmentation Using the Medical Image Computing Platform 3D Slicer | Jan Egger, Tina Kapur, Christopher Nimsky and Ron Kikinis
• 16. Capability of the Medical Image Computing Platform 3D Slicer for Glioblastoma Multiforme Segmentation in Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) Data | Jan Egger, Tina Kapur, Andriy Fedorov, Steve Pieper, James Miller, Harini Veeraraghavan, Bernd Freisleben, Alexandra Golby, Christopher Nimsky and Ron Kikinis
• 17. Intraoperative Endoscoping Margin Evaluation for Prostate Resection Robotic Surgery | Alex Hartov, John Seigne, John Heaney, Andrea Borsic, Yuqing Wan and Ryan Halter.
• 18. Probabilistic deformation atlases for atlas-based registration and segmentation | John Onofrey, Lawrence Staib and Xenophon Papademetris
• 19. Image-based Tracking of Deflected Needle for Complex MR Images in MRI-guided Percutaneous Interventions | Atsushi Yamada, Junichi Tokuda and Nobuhiko Hata.
• 20. Prostate Central Gland Segmentation Using a Spherical Template Driven Graph Approach | Jan Egger, Tobias Penzkofer, Tina Kapur and Clare Tempany
• 21. Graph-Based Vertebra Segmentation Using a Cubic Template | Robert Schwarzenberg, Tina Kapur, William Wells, Christopher Nimsky, Bernd Freisleben and Jan Egger
• 22. Segmentation of Pelvic Structures for Gynecologic Brachytherapy | Jan Egger, Neha Agrawal, Tyler Blevins, Nabgha Farhat, Guillaume Pernelle, Xiaojun Chen, Yi Gao, William Wells, Tobias Penzkofer, Tina Kapur and Akila Viswanathan.
• 23. Linear Dynamic System Analysis for Segmenting Breast Carcinomas from DCE-MRI | Jayender Jagadeesan, Eva Gombos, Tyler Blevins, Sona Chikarmane, Neha Agrawal and Ferenc Jolesz
• 24. Optimal Trajectory Selection for Segmenting Breast Carcinomas from DCE-MRI using A Statistical Learning Algorithm | Jayender Jagadeesan, Vivek Narayan, Sona Chikarmane, Kirby Vosburgh, Ferenc Jolesz and Eva Gombos
• 25. Needle Labeling for Interstitial Gynecological Brachytherapy | Yi Gao, Nabgha Farhat, Neha Agrawal, Guillaume Pernelle, Xiaojun Chen, Jan Egger, Tyler Blevins, Sylvain Bouix, Allen Tannenbaum, William Wells, Ron Kikinis, Ehud Schmidt, Akila Viswanathan and Tina Kapur
• 26. A Software Prototype for Real-time Ablation Zone Planning Using Distance Transformation Calculated Isosurfaces | Jan Egger, Tina Kapur, Philipp Bruners, Tobias Penzkofer
• 27. Subminute nonrigid multimodality image registration for image-guided therapies | William Plishker, Wen Li, Nabile Safdar, Nobuhiko Hata and Raj Shekhar
• 28. A Novel Iterative Approach for Accounting for Non-Rigid Deformations in Image Guided Liver Surgery Using Sparse Surface Data | D. Caleb Rucker, Yifei Wu, Thomas S. Pheiffer, Amber L. Simpson, Michael I. Miga

Group D: Imaging Techniques & Others

• 29. Positive Contrast Ultrashort TE imaging with Ferumoxytol Contrast Agent | Codi Gharagouzloo, Saaussan Madi, Mukesh Harisinghani and Srinvas Sridhar
• 30. Interactive Real Time Inductively Coupled Catheter Coil Tracking Using a Transmit Array System | Ugur Yilmaz, Li Pan and Ergin Atalar.
• 31. Quantitative Imaging to Establish Distribution Parameters of Timed Release of Drug Eluting Nanoparticles from Implantable Devices for Image Guided Chemobrachytherapy | Rajiv Kumar, Stacey Markovic, Tej Jadhav, Mark Niedre, Paul Nguyen, Anthony D’Amico, Mike Makrigiorgos, Srinivas Sridhar and Robert Cormack

Friday, September 21, 2012

Invitation

Drs. Ferenc Jolesz and Clare Tempany would like to invite you you to the Fifth Image Guided Therapy workshop sponsored by the National Center for Image Guided Therapy (NCIGT), the Neuroimaging Analysis Center (NAC) and the National Institutes of Health (NIH). The workshop will be held on September 21, 2012 in the Joseph B. Martin Conference Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston.

The goal of this workshop is to learn about state of the art and future trends in image guided interventions. The focus for this year is Molecular and Ultrasound Image Guided Therapy. The program for this workshop includes a single track of scientific talks by thought-leaders in the field, as well as a poster session. The oral presentations will be a combination of invited talks and those selected from submitted abstracts. The posters will be selected from the abstract submissions.

The overall goal of this workshop series is to asses the current needs and opportunities in the field of image-guided interventions and NCIGT’s role as a national center in relation to the greater IGT community. Similar to previous workshops in this series, we expect attendance by the members of the academia, industry, and federal agencies interested in the field of image-guided interventions.

Program Committee

• Ferenc Jolesz, MD, Chair
• Clare Tempany, MD, Chair
• Tina Kapur, PhD, Program Chair
• Keyvan Farahani, PhD
• Ron Kikinis, MD
• Alexandra Golby, MD
• William Wells, PhD
• Nobuhiko Hata, PhD

Organizing Committee

• Ferenc Jolesz, MD
• Clare Tempany, MD
• Tina Kapur, PhD
• Danielle Chamberlain, BS, RT
• Danielle Klette
• Patti Goldberger, MBA
• Marianna Jakab, MS
• Jan Egger, PhD, PhD
• Neha Agrawal, MBBS
• Guillaume Pernelle, BS
• Tse Tsz Ho, PhD

Hotel Logistics

We have a block of rooms booked at the Copley Marriott Hotel in Boston at the rate of $249.00 USD/night. This rate will be available until August 30, 2012.
Please call Reservations at 1-800-228-9290 and ask for the Partner’s Health Care Interventional MRI Symposium Room Block.

Copley Marriott Hotel
110 Huntington Avenue
Boston, MA 02116
Phone: 617-236-5800

Courtyard Marriott in Brookline at the rate of $239 USD/night. This rate will be available until August 20, 2012.
Please call reservations at 866-296-2296 mention “iMRi Group” to book, or you may go online and use the following code: IMRIMRA – King Bed.
Courtyard Marriott
40 Webster Street
Coolidge Corner
Brookline, MA 02446
Phone: 617-734-1393

Best Western: The Inn at Longwood Medical at the rate of $189 USD/night. This rate will be available until August 30, 2012.
Please call reservations at 800-468-2378 or 617-731-4700 and mention “NCIGT Workshop and IMRI Symposium”
Best Western: The Inn at Longwood Medical
342 Longwood Avenue
Boston, MA 02115
Phone: (617) 731-4700

Registered Attendees as of September 20, 2012

1. Sanjee Abeytunge :: Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
2. Jerome Ackerman :: Massachusetts General Hospital
3. Neha Agrawal :: Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School
4. Stephen Aylward :: Kitware, Inc.
5. Neha Bajwa :: UCLA
6. Christos Bergeles :: Boston Children’s Hospital
7. Roberto Blanco Sequeiros :: Oulu University Hospital
8. Tyler Blevins :: Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School
9. Philip Blumenfeld :: Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School
10. Joyce Bomers :: Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre
11. Paul Borm :: Nano4Imaging GmbH
12. Chris Boyle :: Black Diamond Video Inc.
13. Amy Boyle :: IMRIS, Inc.
14. Laura Brattain :: Harvard University
15. John Brockway :: Monteris Medical Inc.
16. Harald Busse :: Leipzig University Hospital
17. Kim Butts Pauly :: Stanford University
18. Kim Butts Pauly :: Stanford University
19. John Carrino :: Johns Hopkins University
20. Xiaojun Chen :: Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School
21. Byoung Wook Choi :: Yonsei University College of Medicine
22. Renxin Chu :: Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School
23. Michael Cibelli :: Black Diamond Video Inc.
24. Benjamin Cox :: University of Dundee
25. Menard Cynthia :: Harvard Medical School
26. Meir Dahan :: IMRIS, Inc.
27. Antonio Damato :: Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School
28. Thomas Dorn :: Black Diamond Video Inc.
29. Jan Egger :: Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School
30. Yigitcan Eryaman :: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
31. Stephanie Eyerly :: Duke University
32. Janice Fairhurst :: Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School
33. Keyvan Farahani :: National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health
34. Nabgha Farhat :: Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School
35. Andriy Fedorov :: Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School
36. Tsarfaty Galia :: Sheba Medical Center
37. Yi Gao :: Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School
38. Xavier Garcia-Rojas :: Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School
39. Doug Garrabrant :: IMRIS, Inc.
40. Wladyslaw Gedroyc :: St. Mary’s Hospital
41. Alexandra Golby :: Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School
42. Perry Grigsby :: Washington University School of Medicine
43. Matthias Grothoff :: University Leipzig – Heart Centre Leipzig Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology
44. Rao Gullapalli :: University of Maryland School of Medicine
45. Matthias Gutberlet :: University Leipzig – Heart Centre Leipzig Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology
46. Tobias Hahn :: University and ETH Zurich
47. Hasnine Haque :: GE Healthcare, Japan
48. Alex Hartov :: Dartmouth College
49. Noby Hata :: Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School
50. W. Scott Hoge :: Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School
51. Andrew Holbrook :: Stanford University
52. Tokuyuki Honda :: Canon U.S.A.
53. Robert Howe :: Harvard University
54. Kullervo Hynynen :: Sunnybrook Research Institute
55. Jayender Jagadeesan :: Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School
56. Marianna Jakab :: Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School
57. Peter Jakab :: Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School
58. Ferenc Jolesz :: Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School
59. Samuel Kadoury :: Ecole Polytechnique
60. Yuvi Kahana :: Optoacoustics Ltd.
61. Thomas Kahn :: University of Leipzig
62. Tina Kapur :: Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School
63. Samuel Kesner :: Wyss Institute/Harvard University
64. Ron Kikinis :: Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School
65. Kye Kim :: Censeo Consulting Group Inc
66. Hiroumi Kitajima :: Emory University School of Medicine
67. Dara Kraitchman :: Johns Hopkins University
68. Rajiv Kumar :: Northeastern University
69. Kim Lawson :: Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School
70. Senhu Li :: Xoran Technologies Inc.
71. Haiying Liu :: Covidien Ltd.
72. Xinyang Liu :: Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School
73. Ting Liu :: Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School
74. Tom Lloyd :: Imricor Medical Systems
75. Paul Loschak :: Harvard SEAS
76. Bruno Madore :: Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School
77. Fatahi Mahsa :: University of Dundee
78. Mike Makrigiorgos :: Dana Farber Cancer Institute
79. Ramon Martin :: Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School
80. Michael Marx :: Stanford University
81. Nathan McDannold :: Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School
82. Chang-Sheng Mei :: Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School
83. Can Meral :: Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School
84. Michael Miga :: Vanderbilt University
85. Michael Moche :: University of Leipzig
86. Shigehiro Morikawa :: Shiga University of Medical Science
87. Shigeyuki Naka :: Department of Surgery, Shiga University of Medical Science
88. Erez Nevo :: Robin Medical, Inc.
89. Christopher Nimsky :: Department of Neurosurgery University Marburg
90. Isaiah Norton :: Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School
91. Sherif Nour :: Emory University Hospital
92. Lauren O’Donnell :: Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School
93. John Onofrey :: Yale University
94. Christiaan Overduin :: Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre
95. Rie Oyama :: Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School
96. Parag Parikh :: Washington University School of Medicine
97. Matthew Pendleton :: Institute for Medical Science And Technology-University Of Dundee
98. Tobias Penzkofer :: Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School
99. Guillaume Pernelle :: Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School
100. Terry Peters :: Robarts Research Institution
101. Mathew Philip :: Robin Medical, Inc.
102. William Plishker :: IGI Technologies Inc.
103. Sonia Pujol :: Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School
104. Peetermans Robert ::
105. Eva Rothgang :: Siemens
106. Martin Rube :: University of Dundee
107. Nael Saad :: Washington University in St. Louis
108. Emam Saleh :: Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School
109. Shashank Sathyanarayan :: Johns Hopkins University
110. Ehud Schmidt :: Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School
111. Jeff Schweitzer :: St. Jude Medical
112. Roneli Shaked :: Optoacoustics Ltd.
113. Raj Shekhar :: Children’s National Medical Center
114. Stuart Silverman :: Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School
115. Jouke Smink :: Philips Healthcare
116. Sam Song :: Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School
117. Govindarajan Srimathveeravalli :: Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
118. Jason Stafford :: MD Anderson Cancer Center
119. Teodor Stanescu :: Princess Margaret Cancer Centre
120. Andrei State :: InnerOptic Technology Inc.
121. Jim Stefansic :: Pathfinder Therapeutics Inc.
122. Hao Su :: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
123. Garnette Sutherland :: University of Calgary – Project neuroArm
124. Clare Tempany :: Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School
125. Gaurie Tilak :: Harvard Medical School
126. Junichi Tokuda :: Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School
127. Meysam Torabi :: Wyss Institute/Harvard University
128. Kemal Tuncali :: Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School
129. Richard Tyc :: Monteris Medical Inc.
130. Kirby Vosburgh :: Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School
131. Tracy Waldron :: IMRIS, Inc.
132. Conor Walsh :: Harvard University
133. Wei Wang :: Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School
134. Hartmut Warnken :: IMRIS, Inc.
135. Clifford Weiss :: Johns Hopkins University
136. William Wells :: Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School
137. P. Jason White :: Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School
138. Jeff Winter :: IMRIS, Inc.
139. Di Xu :: Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
140. Atsushi Yamada :: Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School
141. Xiaoming Yang :: University of Washington
142. Erol Yeniaras :: MD Anderson Cancer Center
143. Kitaro Yoshimitsu :: Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School
144. Lyubomir Zagorchev :: Philips Research
145. Lei Zhao :: Symbow Medical Technology Co. Ltd.

The 4^th National Image Guided Therapy Workshop

The 4^th 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 program was divided into 7 oral sessions and a poster session. It included 28 invited talks by thought leaders in the field, and 54 poster presentations.

Workshop Proceedings

Program

Wednesday, October 12

• 10am: Advanced Multimodality Image Guided Operating (AMIGO) Suite. Ferenc Jolesz, MD, PI NCIGT, Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School
• 10:30am-12noon: Session I: Prostate Interventions (Session Chair: Clare Tempany, MD)12-1pm: Working Lunch for NIH Program Officers and Investigators
  • TANDEM-ROBOT ASSISTED LAPAROSCOPIC RADICAL PROSTATECTOMY (T-RALP), Misop Han, MD, John Hopkins University
  • BIOPSY TRACKING AND MRI FUSION TO ENHANCE IMAGING OF CANCER WITHIN THE PROSTATE, Daniel Margolis, MD, UCLA
  • MR-GUIDED PROSTATE BIOPSY AND BRACHYTHERAPY, Kristy Brock, PhD, Princess Margaret Hospital, Toronto
• 1-3pm: Session II: Optical Imaging (Session Chair: David Boas, PhD)3-3:30pm: BREAK
  • INTRAOPERATIVE OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY FOR ASSESSING TUMOR MARGINS AND LYMPH NODE STATUS DURING BREAST CANCER SURGERY, Stephen Boppart, MD, PhD, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
  • REFLECTANCE CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY OF SHAVE BIOPSY WOUNDS IN PATIENTS WITH SKIN CANCER: FEASIBILITY OF INTRA-OPERATIVE MAPPING OF TUMOR MARGINS, Milind Rajadhyaksha, PhD, Sloan-Kettering Institute for Cancer Research
  • 3D OPTICAL IMAGING AND DIGITAL XRAY OF BREAST LESIONS, David Boas, PhD, Massachusetts General Hospital
  • IN VIVO DETECTION OF NEOPLASIA IN THE DIGESTIVE TRACT, Thomas D. Wang, MD, PhD, University of Michigan
• 3:30-4:30pm: Session III: Small Business Innovations in Image Guided Therapy (Session Chair: Keyvan Farahani, PhD)
  • MR-GUIDED LASER ABLATION, Roger McNichols, PhD (Vice President, Visualase, Houston, TX)
  • FAST, EASY, AND ACCURATE 3D ULTRASOUND GUIDANCE FOR SURGICAL NEEDLE ABLATION, Sharif Razzaque, PhD (Chief Technology Officer, InnerOptic Technology, Inc., Chapel Hill, North Carolina)
  • IMAGE GUIDED INTERVENTIONAL ULTRASOUND ABLATION AND RADIATION THERAPY, Clif Burdette, PhD, CEO Acoustic MedSystems
• 4:30-6pm: Session IV: Thermal Imaging (Session Chair: Nathan McDannold, PhD)6.15pm: Poster Session and Reception
  • PROSPECTIVE 3D TREATMENT PLANNING FOR MR-GUIDED LASER INDUCED THERMAL THERAPY, Jason Stafford, PhD, University of Texas MS, Anderson Cancer Center
  • IMPROVED MRI TEMPERATURE IMAGING USING A SUBJECT-SPECIFIC BIOPHYSICAL MODEL, Dennis Parker, PhD, University of Utah
  • NONINVASIVE ESTIMATION OF TEMPERATURE CHANGE USING PULSE-ECHO ULTRASOUND: IN VIVO RESULTS, Emad Ebbini, PhD, University of Minnesota
  • FOCUSED ULTRASOUND OF THE LIVER DURING FREE BREATHING, Kim Butts-Pauly, PhD, Stanford

Thursday, October 13

• 8:30-10am: Session V: Cardiac Imaging for Intervention (Session Chair: Ehud Schmidt, PhD)10am: BREAK
  • REALTIME MRI-GUIDED CARDIOVASCULAR INTERVENTION, Robert Lederman, PhD, NHLBI
  • CLINICAL EVALUATION OF AN ULTRASOUND BASED IMAGING SYSTEM FOR GUIDING CARDIAC ABLATION, Patrick Wolf, PhD, Duke
  • MRI GUIDED EP ABLATION, Henry Halperin, MD, Johns Hopkins
  • 5D IMAGE GUIDED CARDIAC ABLATION THERAPY, David Holmes, PhD, Mayo Clinic
• 10:30-12pm: Session VI: Abdominal Interventions (Session Chair: Kemal Tuncali, MD)12-1pm: Poster Session and Lunch
  • 3T MRI FOR ABDOMINAL INTERVENTIONS AND COMPUTERIZED MONITORING OF CRYOABLATION, Kemal Tuncali, MD, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medial School
  • US-GUIDED ABDOMINAL SURGERY, Michael Choti, MD, Johns Hopkins Surgery
  • DEVELOPMENT OF AN INTRABILIARY MRI-MONITORED LOCAL AGENT DELIVERY TECHNIQUE: TOWARD MR/RF-ENHANCED CHEMOTHERAPY OF MALIGNANT BILIARY OBSTRUCTIONS, Xiaoming Yang, MD,PhD, University of Washington
• 1-2pm: KEYNOTE: MOLECULAR MEDICINE AND IMAGING SCIENCE: FOCUS ON IMAGE-GUIDED INTERVENTIONS, Belinda Seto, PhD, Deputy Director NIBIB
• 2-2:30pm: STIMULATED RAMAN SCATTERING MICROSCOPY: LABEL FREE MOLECULAR IMAGING FOR MEDICINE, Sunney Xie, PhD, Harvard University
• 2:30-3pm: BREAK
• 3-3:30pm: NCI Programs in Image-Guided Interventions, Keyvan Farahani, PhD, NCI
• 3:30-5pm: Session VII: Imaging for Gynecologic Cancers Radiation Therapy (Session Chair: Akila Viswanathan, MD)5pm: ADJOURN
  • IMAGE-GUIDED GYNECOLOGIC BRACHYTHERAPY, Akila Viswanathan, MD, Brigham and Women’s Hospital/Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medial School
  • INTRA-TUMORAL METABOLIC HETEROGENEITY OF CERVICAL CANCER, Perry Grigsby, MD, Washington University, St Louis
  • IGT FOR CERVIX CANCER USING DYNAMIC CONTRAST ENHANCED AND DIFFUSION WEIGHTED MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING, Nina Mayr, MD, Ohio State University
  • UTILITY OF PREOPERATIVE FERUMOXTRAN-10 MRI TO EVALUATE RETROPERITONEAL LYMPH NODE METASTASIS IN ADVANCED CERVICAL CANCER: RESULTS OF ACRIN 6671/GOG 0233, Mostafa Atri, MD, Sunnybrook and Women’s College, University of Toronto

Speaker Presentations

• David Boas: 3D Optical Imaging and Digital X-ray of Breast Lesions
• Kim Butts-Pauly: Focused Ultrasound of the Liver during Free Breathing
• Kayvan Farahani: NCI Programs in Image-Guided Intervention
• Perry Grigsby: Intra-tumoral Metabolic Heterogeneity of Cervical Cancer
• Mishop Han: Tandem-Robot Assisted Laparoscopic Radical Prostatectomy (T-RALP)
• David Holmes: 5D Image Guiding Cardiac Ablation Therapy
• Ferenc Jolesz: Welcome: NCIGT and AMIGO
• Daniel Margolis: Biopsy Tracking and MRI Fusion to Enhance Imaging of cancer within the Prostate
• Dennis Parker: Improved MRI Temperature Imaging Using a Subject-Specific Biophysical Model
• Milind Rajadhyaksha: Reflectance Confocal Microscopy of Shave Biopsy Wounds in Patients with Skin Cancer: Feasibility of Intra-operative Mapping of Tumor Margins
• Sharif Razzaque: Fast, Easy and Accurate 3D Ultrasound Guidance for Surgical Needle Ablation
• Belinda Seto: Molecular Medicine and Imaging Science: Focus on Image-Guided Interventions
• Jason Stafford: Prospective 3D Treatment Planning for MR-guided Laser Induced Thermal Therapy
• Patrick Wolf: Clinical Evaulation of an Ultrasound Based Imaging System for Guiding Cardiac Ablation
• Xiaoming Yang: Development of an Intrabiliary MRI-monitored Local Agent Delivery Technique: Toward MR/RF-enhanced Chemotherapy of Malignant Biliary Obstructions

Program Committee

• Ferenc Jolesz, MD, General Chair
• Clare Tempany, MD, General Chair
• Tina Kapur, PhD, Program Chair
• Ron Kikinis, MD
• Alexandra Golby, MD
• Sandy Wells, PhD
• Nathan McDannold, PhD
• Greg Clement, PhD
• Ehud Schmidt, PhD
• Kemal Tuncali, MD
• Noby Hata, PhD
• Akila Viswanathan, MD
• Abraham Levy, PhD, NCRR
• John Haller, PhD, NIBIB
• Keyvan Farahani, PhD, NCI

Registered Attendees as of October 7, 2011

1. Miguel Valdivia y Alvarado :: Houston Methodist Hospital Research Institute
2. Stephan Anderson :: Boston University
3. Anthony Apicelli :: Washington University School of Medicine
4. Mostafa Atri :: University of New Hampshire
5. Mahdi Azizian :: Children’s National Medical Center
6. James Beckett :: Philips Healthcare
7. Alana Beres :: Children’s National Medical Center
8. Jerry Bieszczad :: Creare Incorporated
9. Walter Block :: University of Wisconsin-Madison
10. David Boas :: Massachusetts General Hospital
11. Stephen Boppart :: University of Illinois
12. Kristy Brock :: Princess Margaret Hospital University of Toronto
13. Everette C Burdette :: Acoustic MedSystems, Inc.
14. Edward Butler :: Houston Methodist Hospital Physicians Organization
15. Kim Butts Pauly :: Stanford University
16. Jacek Capala :: National Institutes of Health
17. Elvis Chen :: Robarts Research Institution
18. Michael Choti :: Johns Hopkins University
19. Gregory Clement :: Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School
20. Carl Colombi :: GE Healthcare
21. Antonio Damato :: Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School
22. Katherine Davenport :: Children’s National Medical Center
23. Jim Deye :: National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health
24. Emad Ebbini :: University of Minnesota
25. Jan Egger :: University Hospital Of Marburg Germany
26. Jacqueline Esthappan :: Washington University School of Medicine
27. Stephanie Eyerly :: Duke University
28. Fabiola Fernandez-Gutierrez :: Institute for Medical Science And Technology-University Of Dundee
29. Keyvan Garahani :: National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health
30. Andriy Gedorov :: Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School
31. John Gerut :: GE Healthcare
32. Barry Getics :: Robin Medical, Inc.
33. Behnood Gholami :: Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School
34. Neil Glossop :: Philips Healthcare
35. Perry Grigsby :: Mallinckrodt Institute
36. David Guentes :: MD Anderson Cancer Center
37. John Haller :: NIBIB/National Institutes of Health
38. Henry Halperin :: Johns Hopkins University
39. Ryan Halter :: Dartmouth College
40. Misop Han :: Johns Hopkins University
41. Tiancheng He :: Houston Methodist Hospital Research Institute
42. David Holmes :: Mayo Clinic
43. Yanle Hu :: Washington University School of Medicine
44. Zhibin Huang :: East Carolina University
45. Nicusor Iftimia :: Physical Sciences Inc.
46. Jayender Jagadeesan :: Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School
47. Ferenc Jolesz :: Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School
48. Tina Kapur :: Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School
49. Pierre Khuri-Yakub :: Stanford University
50. Ron Kikinis :: Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School
51. Peter Kim :: Children’s National Medical Center
52. Alexander Klibanov :: University of Virginia
53. Pencilla Lang :: Robarts Research Institution
54. Bjorg Larson :: Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
55. Andras Lasso :: Laboratory for Percutaneous Surgery Queen’s University
56. Kim Lawson :: Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School
57. Robert Lederman :: National Heart Lung And Blood Institute
58. Abraham Levy :: NCRR/National Institutes of Health
59. Yubo Lu :: Johns Hopkins University
60. Daniel Margolis :: UCLA
61. Nina Mayr :: Ohio State University
62. Alan McLaughlin :: NIBIB/National Institutes of Health
63. Roger McNichols :: Visualase Inc.
64. Yanfeng Meng :: University of Washington
65. Azadeh Moini :: Stanford University
66. Mehdi Moradi :: Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School
67. Kishwer Nehal :: Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
68. Lauren O’Donnell :: Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School
69. Diego Olego :: Philips Healthcare
70. Daniel Orringer :: Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School
71. Li Pan :: Siemens Corporation
72. Dennis Parker :: University of Utah
73. Allison Payne :: University of Utah
74. Terry Peters :: Robarts Research Institution
75. Peter Pinto :: National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health
76. Milind Rajadhyaksha :: Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
77. Sharif Razzaque :: InnerOptic Technology Inc.
78. Maryam Rettmann :: Mayo Clinic
79. Richard Robb :: Mayo Clinic
80. Ehud Schmidt :: Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School
81. Belinda Seto :: NIBIB/National Institutes of Health
82. Sam Song :: Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School
83. Jason Stafford :: MD Anderson Cancer Center
84. Po Su :: Houston Methodist Hospital Research Institute
85. Manana Sukhareva :: NIBIB/National Institutes of Health
86. Pushpa Tandon :: National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health
87. Thomas Tang :: Philips Healthcare
88. Clare Tempany :: Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School
89. Radhika Tibrewal :: Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School
90. Junichi Tokuda :: Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School
91. Kanokpis Townamchai ::
92. Kemal Tuncali :: Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School
93. Paweena U-Thainual :: Johns Hopkins University
94. Srirama Venkataraman :: Philips Healthcare
95. Bhadrasain Vikram :: National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health
96. Akila Viswanathan :: Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School
97. Thomas Wang :: University of Michigan
98. William Wells :: Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School
99. Mark Wilson :: University of California San Francisco
100. Patrick Wolf :: Duke University
101. John Wolfgang :: Massachusetts General Hospital
102. Rosemary Wong :: National Institutes of Health
103. Xiaoliang Xie :: Harvard University
104. Di Xu :: Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
105. Atsushi Yamada :: Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School
106. Xiaoming Yang :: University of Washington

The Fourth Image-Guided Therapy workshop sponsored by the National Center for Image Guided Therapy (NCIGT), the Neuroimaging Analysis Center (NAC) and the National Institutes of Health (NIH), which will be held on October 12-13, 2011 at the Crowne Plaza National hotel, Arlington VA. The topic for this workshop is “Advanced Imaging Technologies and Methods for Image Guided Therapy” and the goal is to learn about state of the art and future trends in imaging for therapy. The chairs of this workshop are Drs. Ferenc Jolesz and Clare Tempany of Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School. The program for this workshop includes a single track of invited scientific talks by thought-leaders in the field, as well as a poster session based on abstract submissions. The talks will be divided into sessions that focus on imaging advances for prostate, cardiac, abdominal, and gynecological interventions, as well as on techniques for optical and thermal imaging across clinical specialities.

Fourth NCIGT and NIH Image Guided Therapy Workshop Announcement

The overall goal of this workshop series is to asses the current needs and opportunities in the field of image-guided interventions and NCIGT’s role as a national center in relation to the greater IGT community. Similar to previous workshops in this series, we expect attendance by the members of the academia, industry, and federal agencies interested in the field of image-guided interventions.

NCIGT is a national resource center in image-guided therapy that is funded jointly by two NIH institutes: NCRR and NIBIB. In addition, funding for this conference was made possible (in part) by Grant# R13 CA 139764 from the National Cancer Institute. The views expressed in written conference materials or publications and by speakers and moderators do not necessarily reflect the official policies of the Department of Health and Human Services; nor does mention by trade names, commercial practices, or organizations imply endorsement by the U.S. Government.

Call for Poster Abstracts

Prospective attendees are encouraged to submit abstracts describing their research in image-guided therapy for consideration of exhibition in the Poster Sessions of the workshop. Please note that the abstracts will be published in a workshop proceedings and made available publicly on the workshop website, so please do not submit material that is not ready for public dissemination.

Authors should organize the abstract to include Title, Author(s), Affliation(s), and four sections: Purpose, Methods, Results, and Conclusions, identified by bold headers. The character count for the Purpose, Methods, Results, and Conclusions should be 2500. Submissions may be made by sending your abstract as a single page pdf format attachment to ncigt workshop posters mailing list. Abstracts will be considered on a rolling basis starting Monday, August 29, 2011 until Monday, October 3, 2011. All submissions will be reviewed by the Program Committee of the workshop for scientific merit and program relevance. Submitting authors will be notified of the result of the abstract review within two weeks of submission, starting Tuesday September 13, 2011.

Each accepted abstract will be presented at the meeting by the author(s) using a printed poster (23″x33″ Portrait format).

We are pleased to offer travel (airfare and hotel) reimbursement of upto $750 each and waiver of registration fee for select junior investigators, students, and underrepresented researchers. Selection criteria will be scientific merit of the submission, as determined by the Program Committee. To apply for this reimbursement and/or waiver, please send an email along with your submission, and we will notify you of your selection for these funds along with your acceptance decision, within 2 weeks of your submission. PLEASE NOTE THAT ACCEPTANCES WILL BE ON A ROLLING BASIS, SO PLEASE SUBMIT EARLY TO MAXIMIZE YOUR CHANCES FOR THESE FUNDS.

For questions please us.

Important Dates

• Registration opens: Monday, August 22, 2011 Click here to register. The registration fee is $260.
  • Abstract submissions open: Monday, August 29, 2011 Submit, in pdf format, upto 2500 character abstract that fits in a single page to ncigt workshop posters mailing list. It should include a Title, Author(s) and Affiliations, Purpose, Methods, Results, and Conclusions, identified by bold headers
  • Abstract acceptance decisions: Every Tuesday beginning September 13 (Acceptances will be announced every week on a rolling basis until the workshop).
  • The workshop: October 12-13, 2011

  Venue

  Crowne Plaza Hotel Washington National Airport
  1480 South Crystal Drive
  Arlington, VA 22202
  703.416.1600

  To reserve a room online, please click here to reach the Crowne Plaza Online Hotel Reservation Desk, or call 1-800-2CROWNE and refer to the ‘Image Guided Therapy’ block. Rooms are being held forRegistration

  To register for the workshop, please click here. The registration fee is $260.

The 3^rd National Image Guided Therapy Workshop

The 3^rd Image Guided Therapy Workshop was successfully held on March 8-9, 2010, in Arlington, VA.

2010 Workshop Proceedings

Sponsored by the National Center for Image-Guided Therapy (NCIGT) and the National Institute of Health (NIH), this workshop will be focused on Multimodal Imaging in the Operating Room. The goal is to learn about state of the art and future trends in operating suites that use more than one imaging modality, and serve more than one clinical specialty.

The overall goal of this workshop series is to asses the current needs and opportunities in the field of image-guided interventions and NCIGT’s role as a national center in relation to the greater IGT community. Similar to the first two workshops in this series, we plan to hold a single track of talks, along with breakout sessions on topics that are of common interest to researchers in the NIH funded IGT community, as well as a poster session. We expect attendance by the members of the academia, industry, and federal agencies interested in the field of image-guided interventions.

The chairs of this workshop are Dr. Ferenc Jolesz of Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, and Dr. Keyvan Farahani of the National Cancer Institute.

NCIGT is a national resource center in image-guided therapy that is funded jointly by three NIH institutes: NCRR, NCI, and NIBIB.

Funding for this conference was made possible (in part) by Grant# 1 R13 CA 139764-01 from the National Cancer Institute. The views expressed in written conference materials or publications and by speakers and moderators do not necessarily reflect the official policies of the Department of Health and Human Services; nor does mention by trade names, commercial practices, or organizations imply endorsement by the U.S. Government.

Summary

The Third annual IGT workshop was held March 8th and 9th, 2010, in Arlington VA at the Crowne Plaza Hotel, Washington National Airport.The topic was Advanced Imaging Technology in the Operating Room. The workshop recorded 104 attendees.These attendees came from 32 institutions, 12 companies and the NIH. Participants traveled from 4 countries, Canada, France, Netherlands and Scotland, and from 17 states within the US.

This program for the workshop included 24 oral presentations, two break-out sessions and 43 posters presentations. The oral presentations where from international thought leading clinicians, researchers, and scientist on topics in Neurosurgery, Radiation Therapy, Focused Ultrasound Therapy, Prostate Cancer Intervention, CT and Cone-Beam CT Imaging, Medical Robotics, and Ultrasound-Guided Drug Delivery. The breakout sessions covered hands-on use of Registration Algorithms and Software, and MRgFUS Therapy.The posters were presented in 6 categories, selected from submitted abstracts.The 6 categories were:Cardiac, Abdomen, Prostate, Brain and Spine, Breast, and General IGT. At the conclusion of this workshop, we compiled a collection of PowerPoint presentations from the speakers suitable for public dissemination and have provided these on our website for this workshop.

Meeting Agenda

Monday, March 8, 2010
Time	Presenter	Institute	Topic
12:00 PM – 1:00 PM	Lunch
1:00 PM – 1:30 PM	Keynote: Ferenc Jolesz, M.D., P.I.-NCIGT	Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women’s Hospital	Advanced Multimodality Imaging in the Operating Room
1:30 PM – 2:00 PM	Andreas Melzer, M.D., D.D.S.	University of Dundee, Scotland	Advances for Image-Guided Surgery at Dundee, Scotland: MITOS Multimodality Image-Guided Therapy Operating System
2:00 PM – 2:30 PM	Randy Ellis, Ph.D.	Queen’s University	Intraoperative CT and Cone-Beam CT Imaging
2:30 PM – 3:00 PM	Garnette Sutherland, M.D.	University of Calgary	Imaging and Image Guidance in Neurosurgery
3:00 PM – 3:30 PM	John Heiss, M.D.	NINDS/NIH	MR-Guided Neurosurgery
3:30 PM – 4:00 PM	Nathan McDannold, Ph.D.	Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women’s Hospital	Focused Ultrasound Therapy
4:00 PM – 4:15 PM	Break
4:15 PM – 4:45 PM	David Jaffray, Ph.D.	Princess Margaret Hospital	Experience and Innovation in Image-Guided Therapy
4:45 PM – 5:15 PM	Alexandra Golby, M.D.	Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women’s Hospital	Function Mapping for Neurosurgery
5:15 PM – 5:45 PM	Graham Wright, Ph.D.	Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre	MRI Compatible C-arm Imaging for Cardiac Intervention
5:45 PM – 7:00 PM	Poster Session and Reception
Tuesday, March 9, 2010
Time	Presenter	Institute	Topic
7:30 AM – 8:20 AM	Poster Session and Breakfast
8:20 AM – 8:40 AM	Keyvan Farahani, Ph.D.	NCI/NIH	NCI Programs and Funding Opportunities in Image-Guided Interventions
8:40 AM – 9:00 AM	Peter Choyke, M.D.	NCI/NIH	Image-Guided Prostate Biopsy and Therapy
9:00 AM – 9:20 AM	Brad Wood, M.D.	Clinical Center, NIH	Fusion Interventions for Ablation: The Wii Surgeon
9:20 AM – 9:40 AM	Clare Tempany, M.D., P.I.- NCIGT	Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School	Image-Guided Pelvic Intervention
9:40 AM – 10:00 AM	Russ Taylor, Ph.D.	Johns Hopkins University	Medical Robotics and Computer-Integrated Interventional Medicine
10:00 AM – 10:20 AM	Break
10:20 AM – 10:40 AM	Kevin Cleary, Ph.D.	Georgetown University	EM Tracked Navigation in Cone Beam CT Suite for Abdominal Intervention
10:40 AM – 11:00 AM	Kirby Vosburgh, Ph.D.	CIMIT, CIGL, BWH, MGH	New Approaches for Validating Interventional Procedures
11:00 AM – 11:20 AM	Brian Butler, M.D.	Methodist Hospital, Weill Cornell Medical College	>Multi-Parametric Visualization in Image-Guided Surgery and Radiation Therapy
11:20 AM – 1:00 PM	Breakout Sessions and Lunch	Session 1: “Multimodal Registration Clinic” Moderator: Dominik Meier, Ph.D., Brigham and Women’s Hospital	Session 2: “MR-Guided FUS Therapy”Moderator: Nathan McDannold, Ph.D., Brigham and Women’s Hospital
1:00 PM – 1:20 PM	Anthony Pacifico, Ph.D.	Telemedicine and Advanced Technology Research Center (TATRC)	TATRC Programs in Image-Guided Therapy
1:20 PM – 1:40 PM	William Wells, Ph.D.	Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women’s Hospital	Registration Methods for Image-Guided Therapy
1:40 PM – 2:00 PM	Kathy Ferrara, Ph.D.	UC Davis	Ultrasound-Guided Drug Delivery
2:00 PM – 2:20 PM	Pierre Khuri-Yakub, Ph.D.	Stanford University	Innovations in Ultrasound Instrumentation for Image-Guidance
2:20 PM – 2:40 PM	Lihong Wang, Ph.D.	Washington University	Photoacoustic Imaging in Image-Guided Therapy
2:40 PM – 3:00 PM	John V. Frangioni, M.D., Ph.D.	Harvard Medical School and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center	Image-Guided Surgery using Invisible Near-Infrared Fluorescent Light
3:00 PM – 3:15 PM	Closing Comments

Posters

CARDIAC

1. Evaluation of the performance of MR-guided intramyocardial delivery of angiogenic genes in infarcted myocardium using cardiovascular MR imaging and histopathology. M. Saeed, A. Martin, D. Saloner, P. Ursell, S. Hetts, M. Wilson. Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, and Pathology, University of California San Francisco, CA.
2. Evaluation of Targeting Accuracy under Model-to-Subject Misregistrations Using Model-Enhanced Ultrasound-Assisted Guidance. C.A. Linte^1,2, J. Moore¹, A. Wiles³, C. Wedlake¹ and T.M. Peters^1,2. ¹Biomedical Engineering, University of Western Ontario, London Ontario Canada. ²Imaging Research Laboratories, Robarts Research Institute, London Ontario Canada. ³ Medical Division, Northern Digital Inc., Waterloo Ontario Canada.
3. Forward-Looking Intracardiac Ultrasound Imaging Catheters Using CMUTs. A. Nikoozadeh¹, O. Oralkan¹, M. Gencel¹, J. Woo Choe¹, D.N. Stephens² A. de la Rama³, P. Chen³, K. Thomenius⁴, A. Dentinger⁴, D. Wildes⁴, K. Shivkumar⁵, A. Mahajan⁵, M. O’Donnell⁶, D. Sahn⁷ and P.T. Khuri-Yakub¹. ¹Stanford University; ²University of California, Davis; ³St. Jude Medical; ⁴General Electric Corporate Research & Development ; ⁵Univeristy of California, Los Angeles; ⁶University of Washington; ⁷Oregon Health and Science University.
4. Improved Cardiac MRI Gating, Physiological Monitoring and Cardiac-Output Estimation by MRI Compatible 12-Lead ECGs. Z.T.H. Tse¹, C.L. Dumonulin², G. Clifford³, M. Herosch-Herold¹, D. Kacher¹, R. Kwong⁴, W.G. Stevenson⁴, and E.J. Schmidt¹. ¹Department of Radiology, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, MA; ²University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, OH; ³Health Sciences and Technology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Boston, MA; ⁴Cardiology, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, MA.

ABDOMEN

1. Integrated MRI and HIFU Control System: Towards Real Time Treatment of the Liver. A. B. Holbrook^1,2, C.L. Dumoulin³, J.M. Santos^4,5, Y. Medan⁶ and K. Butts Pauly². ¹Bioengineering, Stanford University, Stanford, CA; ²Radiology, Stanford, University, Stanford, CA; ³Imaging Research Center, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, OH; ⁴HeartVista, Los Altos, CA; ⁵Electrical Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, CA; ⁶InSightec Ltd, Tirat Carmel, Israel.
2. Image Guided Laproscopic Surgery System Using Open Source Software IGSTK. P. Cheng, E. Wilson, Z. Yaniv, P. Bhanot, K. Cleary. Georgetown University Medical Center, Washington D.C.
3. Correcting for Soft Tissue Deformation in Image-Guided Liver Surgery: Multi-Site Preliminary Results. M.I. Miga. P. Dumpuri, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN.
4. Miniaturized Endoscope Lens with Dual Field of View and Resolution for Medical Mutiphoton Microscopic Endoscopy Imaging. M. Chen, C. Xu, W.W. Webb. School of Applied and Engineering Physics, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY.
5. A New System for Image Registered Natural Orifices Transluminal Endoscopy Surgery (IR NOTES). R. San Jose Estepar^1,2, G. Fernandez-Esparrach³, C. Guarner-Argente³, H. Cordova³, A.M. Lacy³, C.C. Thompson⁴, K.G. Vosburgh^2,5. ¹Laboratory of Mathematics in Imaging, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, MA; ²Surgical Planning Laboratory, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, MA; ³Department of Gastroenterology, Department of Surgery, ICMDM, Hopital Clinic, CIBERehd, Barcelona, Spain; ⁴Division of Gastroenterology, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, MA; ⁵Center for Integration of Medicine & Innovative Technology (CIMIT), Boston, MA.
6. New Kinematic Metric for Quantifying Surgical Skill for Flexible Instrument Manipulation. J. Jayender^1,2, R. San Jose Estepar¹, K. Obstein³, V.D. Patil^1,2, C. Thompson³, K. Vosburgh^1,2. ¹Department of Radiology, Harvard Medical School, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, MA; ²CIMIT Image Guidance Laboratory, Boston, MA; ³Division of Gastroenterology, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, MA.
7. Advanced Navigation and Motion Characteristics in Natural Orifice Transluminal Endoscopic Surgery. B. Lengyel, R. San Jose Estepar, K. Obstein, V.D. Patil, J. Jayender, D.E. Azagury, M. Ryou, S.N. Shaikh, M.B. Ryan, C.C. Thompson, K.G. Vosburgh. Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women’s Hospital; CIMIT.

PROSTATE

1. Multiphoton Microscopy of Human Prostate and Periprostatic Tissue for Real-Time Structure Identification During Nerve-Sparing Radical Prostatectomy. A.K. Tewari¹, S. Mukherjee², M. Hermani¹, R. Yadav¹, K. Mudalair¹, J. Sterling², S. Grover¹, M. M. Shevchuk³, M.A. Rubin³, F.R. Maxfield², W.R. Zipfel⁴, C. Xu⁵ , W.W. Webb⁵. ¹Department of Urology, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, NY; ²Departmend of Biochemistry, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, NY; ³Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, NY; ⁴Department of Biomedical Engineering, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY; ⁵School of Applied and Engineering Physics, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY.
2. Online Guidance of Tumor Targeted Prostate Brachytherapy using Histologically Referenced MRI. C. Ménard¹, A. Rink¹, J. Abed¹, A. Simeonov¹, J. Publicover¹, J. Lee¹, A.Beiki¹, K. Brock¹, W. Foltz¹, C. Elliott², G. Morton³, P. Warde1 and M. Haider^1,3. ¹Princess Margaret Hospital, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada; ²Sentineelle Medical Inc; ³Odette Cancer Center, University of Toronto, Toronto, CA.
3. Intraoperative Imaging of the Neurovascular Bundle in Robot-Assited Laparoscopic Radical Prostatectomy. C. Kim, P. Mozer, S. Badaan, B. Vigaru, F. Schafer, K. Tseng, D. Petrisor, B. Trock, M. Han, D. Stoianovici. Robotics Lab, Urology Department, Johns Hopkins Medicine, Baltimore, MD.
4. Electrical Property Based Image-Guided Prostate Biopsy. R. Halter, A. Borsic, Y. Wan, H. Syed, A. Hartov, J. Heaney, J. Seigne, A. Schned. Dartmouth College.
5. Shielding Effects on MRI-Compatibility of a Robotic Device for MRI-Guided Transrectal Prostate Intervention. S. Song¹, N. Cho¹, I. Iordachita¹, A. Krieger^1,2, G. Fichtinger³, L. Whitcomb¹. ¹Department of Mechanical Engineering, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD; ²Krieger is presently with Sentinelle Medical Inc., Toronto, Canada; ³School of Computing, Queen’s University, Kingston, Canada.
6. MRI Compatibility Study of a Pneumatically Actuated Robotic System for Transperineal Prostate Needle Placement. S. Song¹, N. Cho¹, J. Tokuda², N. Hata², C. Tempany², G. Fichtinger³, I. Iordachita¹. ¹The Johns Hopkins University, ERC/LCSR, Baltimore, MD; ²Harvard Medical School, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, MA; ³Queen’s University, School of Computing, Kingston, Canada.
7. Improved Prostate MRI with an Integrated Endo-rectal/MR-Tracking Coil Assembly Incorporating Prospective Motion Correction. L. Qin, E. J. Schmidt, K. Butts Pauly, C. Afdhal-Tempany. Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women’s Hospital; Stanford University.
8. Standardized Network Communication for MRI-guided Robotic Prostate Interventions. J. Tokuda¹, G.S. Fischer², J. Blevins³, N. Hata, E.C. Burdette³, G. Fichtinger⁴, C. M. Tempany¹. ¹National Center for Image-Guided Therapy, Brigham and Women’s Hospital; ²Worcester Polytechnic Instiute, ³Acoustic MedSystems Inc., ⁴Queen’s University.
9. Real Time MR-Guided Prostate Ablation with Transurethral Multisectored Ultrasound Applicators and Multislice Treatment Planning and Control. A.B. Holbrook^1,2, P. Prakash³, P. Jones³, C. Planey², J.M. Santos^4,5 C. J. Diederich³, K. Butts Pauly², and F. Graham Sommer². ¹Bioengineering, Stanford University, Stanford, CA; ²Radiology, Stanford, University, Stanford, CA; ³Radiation Oncology, UCSF, San Francisco, CA; ⁴HeartVista, Los Altos, CA; ⁵Electrical Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, CA.

BRAIN AND SPINE

1. Pre-surgical Assessment of Language-dominant Hemisphere Using Task-free fMRI. Y. Tie, L. Rigolo, S. Shriver, A. Golby. Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA.
2. Effects of Local Calcifications in Swine Brain During MR-guided HIFU. R. Bitton, K. Butts Pauly. Department of Radiology, Stanford University, Stanford, CA.
3. SNR Trade-offs in MR-ARFI of Focused Ultrasound in the Brain. E. Kaye, K. Butts Pauly. Department of Radiology, Stanford University, Stanford, CA.
4. Visualization-based Feedback for Image-Guided Neurosurgery. A. Joshi¹, X. Papademetris^1,2. ¹Department of Diag. Radiology; ²Biomedical Engg, Yale.
5. fMRI-DTI Modeling Via Relative Distance Atlases: Detection of Fiber Tracts in Patients with Tumors. L. J. O’Donnell, L. Rigolo, I. Norton, W. Wells, C-F. Westin, A.J. Golby. Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women’s Hospital; CIMIT.
6. Additional Value of Pre-Operative Multimodality Brain Mapping Data for Intraoperative Surgical Decision-Making. L. Rigolo, S. Mukundan, P. Black, I. Norton, F.A. Jolesz, A.J. Golby. Departments of Surgery and Radiology, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA.
7. Accuracy of an Electomagnectic Tracking (EM) System for Image-guided Placement of External Ventricuar Drain (EVD).V. Patil^1,2, R. Shams^2,3, J. Stoll⁴, A. Cheung⁵, R. San Jose Estepar^1,2,6, R. Gupta³, K. Vosburgh^1,2,4. ¹Surgical Planning Laboratory, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, MA; ²CIMIT Image Guidance Laboratory, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA; ³College of Engineering and Computer Science, Australian National University, Canberra, ACT, Australia; ⁴Center for Integration of Medicine and Innovative Technology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA; ⁵Department of Radiology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA; ⁶Laboratory of Mathematics in Imaging, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, MA.
8. Improved Visualization of the Extra Dural Spinal Nerves for Spine Pain Interventions. G. Danagoulian¹, E.J. Schmidt¹, S. Mukundan¹, A. Shankaranarayanan², K.S. Nayak³. ¹Radiology Department, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA; ²GE Healthcare Applied Science Lab, Menlo Park, CA; ³Electrical Engineering Department, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA.

BREAST

1. MR-guided HIFU in Cadaver Breasts for Pre-Operative Tumor Localization of Non-Palpable Breast Tumors. R. Bitton, E. Kaye, B. Daniel, K. Butts Pauly. Department of Radiology, Stanford University, Stanford, CA.
2. MRI Tools for Focal Spot Visualization During FUS Breast Treatment. E. Kaye, R. Bitton, K. Butts Pauly. Department of Radiology, Stanford University, Stanford, CA.
3. 3D Stereoscopic Vision for MRI Guided Interventions: Technical Feasibility. M. Philip¹, B. Fetics¹, Abraham Roth¹, Amir Roth¹, E. Nevo¹, F. Wacker². ¹Robin Medical, Inc., Baltimore, MD; ²Department of Radiology and Radiological Science, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD.
4. Comprehensive Volumetric Microscopy Guided Biopsy. D. Kang, M.J. Suter, P.A. Jillella, H. Yoo, B.J. Vakoc, N.S. Nishioka, B.E. Bouma, G. J. Tearney. Harvard Medical School and Wellman Center for Photomedicine, Massachusetts General Hospital.

GENERAL IGT

1. Hybrid Referenceless and Multi-Baseline Subtraction MR Thermometry for Monitoring Thermal Therapies in Moving Organs. W. A. Grissom¹, V. Rieke¹, M. Lustig², J. Santos³, M.M. McConnell⁴ and K. Butts Pauly¹. ¹Radiology, Stanford University, Stanford, CA; ²Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, UC Berkely, Berkely, CA; ³Electrical Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, CA; ⁴Cardiovascular Medicine, Stanford University, Stanford, CA.
2. Minimizing Imaging Dose in X-ray Fluoroscopy Guided Interventions. S. Siddique^1,2, E. Fiume², D. A. Jaffray^1,3. ¹Princess Margaret Hospital/Ontario Cancer Research Institute, Toronto Ontario M5G 2M9, Canada; ²Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario M5S 3G4, Canada; ³Departmens of Radiation Oncology and medical Biophysics, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario M5S 3E2, Canada.
3. Medical GPS for Multi-Modality Procedures. H. Amalou, J. Locklin, A. Venkatesan, J. Kruecker, S. Xu, P. Pinto, M. Dreher, A. Kapoor, E. Levy, N. Abi-Jaoudeh, P. Choyke, B. Tukbey, N. Glossop, P. Guion, A. Kaushal, K. Sharma, A. Beck, B. Wood
4. “Drugless” Tumor Therapy by Image-Guided Insonation of Microbubbles in the Tumor Vasculature: Possible Mechanisms of Action. A.L. Klibanov, T. Shevchenko, Z. Du, B. Kundu, R. Seip, B. Raju, C.T. Chin. University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA; Philips Research North America, Briarcliff Manor, NY.
5. Interventional Device Tracking and Imaging Using RTHawk, an Extensible Real-Time System. E. Brodsky, O. Unal, W. Block. Radiology and Medical Physics, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI.
6. Simultaneous MR Image Guidance and Catheter Tracking. S. Kecskemeti, E. Brodsky, W. Block, O. Unal. Radiology and Medical Physics, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI.
7. Wireless Hybrid Tracking System for Image Guided Therapy. H. Ren¹, D. Rank², J. Stallkamp², P. Kazanzides¹. ¹Department of Computer Science, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD; ²Fraunhofer Institute for Manufacturing Engineering and Automation, Stuttgart, Germany.
8. Evaluation of Accuracy and Clinical Feasibility of the MR-Compatible Image Overlay Augmented Reality System for Needle-Based Surgery. P. U-Thainual¹, I. Iordachita³, Y. Otake³, N. Cho³, A. Machado⁴, J. Carrino⁴, G. Fichtinger². ¹Queen’s University, Department of Mechanical and Materials Engineering, Kingston, Ontario, Canada; ²Queen’s University, School of Computing, Kingston, Ontario, Canada; ³The Johns Hopkins University, ERC/LCSR, Baltimore, MD; ⁴Johns Hopkins Univrsity School of Medicine, Russell H. Morgan Department of Radiology and Radiological Science, Baltimore, MD.
9. An Integrated Surgical Guidance System Based on a High-Performance Mobile C-Arm for 3D Imaging. J. Siewerdsen¹, G. Hager², D. Mirota², S. Nithiananthan¹, Y. Otake³, S. Schafer¹, J. Stayman¹, R. Taylor³, A. Uneri⁴, W. Zbijewski¹ and C. Bulitta⁵. ¹Department of Biomedical Engineering, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD; ²Department of Computer Science, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD; ³Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD; ⁴Department of Mechanical Engineering, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD; ⁵Siemens Healthcare, Workflow & Solutions (SP) Division, Erlangen Germany.
10. Image Guided Therapy Applications Using Time-Of-Flight Camera Data. M. Balda, C. Schaller, S. Placht. Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany.
11. Fusion of Intraoperative Cone-Beam CT and Endoscopic Video for Image-Guided Procedures. M.J Daly^1,2, H. Chan¹, E. Prisman³, A. Vescan^2,3, S. Nithiananthan⁴, J. Qiu¹, R. Weersink¹, D. Jaffray¹, J.C. Irish³, J.H. Siewerden⁴. ¹Ontario Cancer Institute, Princess Margaret Hospital, Toronto ON; ²Institute of Medical Science, University of Toronto, Toronto ON; ³Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, University of Toronto ON; ⁴ Department of Biomedical Engineering, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore MD.

Meeting Attendees

This meeting recorded 104 attendees, whose names and affiliations are listed below:

1. Stephen Aylward :: Kitware, Inc.
2. Dominique Belhachemi :: Yale University
3. David Beylin :: National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health
4. Walter Block :: University of Wisconsin-Madison
5. Ethan Brodsky :: University of Wisconsin
6. Brian Butler :: Houston Methodist Hospital Physicians Organization
7. Kim Butts Pauly :: Stanford University
8. Andrew Bzostek :: Medtronic Navigation
9. Joe Camaratta :: MedNest
10. John Carrino :: Johns Hopkins University
11. Minghan Chen :: Cornell University
12. Peter Choyke :: National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health
13. Kevin Cleary :: Georgetown University
14. Gregory Clement :: Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School
15. Neal Clinthorne :: University of Michigan
16. Richard Conroy :: NIBIB/National Institutes of Health
17. Michael Daly :: Princess Margaret Hospital
18. Giovanna Danagoulian :: Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School
19. Erik Dumont :: Image Guided Therapy
20. Tina Ehtiati :: Siemens Corporation
21. Randy Ellis :: Queen’s University
22. Andinet Enquobahrie :: Kitware, Inc.
23. Keyvan Farahani :: National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health
24. Grad Fercho :: Monteris Medical Inc.
25. Katherine Ferrara :: UC Davis
26. John Ferut :: GE Healthcare
27. Barry Fetics :: Robin Medical, Inc.
28. Aaron Flammang :: Siemens Corporate Research
29. John Frangioni :: Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
30. Zatcha Fuentes :: Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School
31. Jason Geng :: Xigen LLC
32. Wesley Gilson :: Siemens
33. Alex Golby :: Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School
34. John Haller :: NIBIB/National Institutes of Health
35. Ryan Halter :: Dartmouth College
36. Nobuhiko Hata :: Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School
37. John Heiss :: Surgical Neurology/NINDS/NIH
38. Joachim Hornegger :: Pattern Recognition Lab, University of Erlangen
39. John Hossack :: University of Virginia
40. Steve Hushek :: IMRIS, Inc.
41. Deborah Imling :: IMRIS, Inc.
42. Iulian Iordachita :: Johns Hopkins University
43. David Jaffray :: Princess Margaret Hospital
44. Ferenc Jolesz :: Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School
45. Alark Joshi :: Yale University
46. Dongkyun Kang :: Massachusetts General Hospital
47. Tina Kapur :: Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School
48. Peter Kazanzides :: Johns Hopkins University
49. Pierre Khuri-Yakub :: Stanford University
50. Ron Kikinis :: Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School
51. Chunwoo Kim :: Johns Hopkins University
52. Alexander Klibanov :: University of Virginia
53. Walter Kucharczyk :: University of Toronto
54. Nathanael Kuo :: Johns Hopkins University
55. Balazs Lengyel :: Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School
56. David Leong :: Analogic Corporation
57. Abraham Levy :: NCRR/National Institutes of Health
58. James E. Lewis :: Houston Methodist Hospital Research Institute
59. Cristian Linte :: Robarts Research Institution
60. Julie Locklin :: National Institutes of Health
61. Christine Lorenz :: Siemens
62. Antonio Machado :: Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
63. Susan May :: GE Healthcare
64. Nathan McDannold :: Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School
65. Dominik Meier :: Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School
66. Andreas Melzer :: Universities Dundee & St. Andrews & Ninewells Hospital and Medical School
67. Michael Miga :: Vanderbilt University
68. Sushmita Mukherjee :: Weill Cornell Medical College
69. Erez Nevo :: Robin Medical, Inc.
70. Laura Nichols :: Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School
71. Robert Owen :: BK Medical ApS
72. Anthony Pacifico :: Telemedicine and Advanced Technology Research Center
73. Li Pan :: Siemens Corporation
74. Mathew Philip :: Robin Medical, Inc.
75. Hongliang Ren :: Johns Hopkins University
76. Laura Rigolo :: Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School
77. Maythem Saeed :: University of California San Francisco
78. Susan Scott :: Focused Ultrasound Foundation
79. Jeffrey Siewerdsen :: Johns Hopkins University
80. Nabil Simaan :: Columbia University
81. Mike Simpson :: IMRIS, Inc.
82. Scott Smith :: GE Global Research
83. Stephen Solomon :: Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
84. Sam Song :: Johns Hopkins University
85. Paul Sovelius :: Houston Methodist Hospital
86. George Stetten :: University of Pittsburgh/CMU Robotics
87. Dan Stoianovici :: Johns Hopkins University
88. Garnette Sutherland :: University of Calgary
89. Raymond Sze :: Children’s National Medical Center
90. Pushpa Tandon :: National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health
91. Russell Taylor :: Johns Hopkins University
92. Clare Tempany :: Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School
93. Junichi Tokuda :: Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School
94. Zion Tsz Ho Tse :: Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School
95. Paweena U-Thainual :: Queen’s University
96. Kirby Vosburgh :: CIMIT and MGH
97. Lihong Wang :: Washington University in St. Louis
98. William Wells :: Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School
99. Louis Whitcomb :: Johns Hopkins University
100. K. Jeff Wilson :: Monteris Medical Inc.
101. Patrick Wolf :: Duke University
102. Bradford Wood :: National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health
103. Graham Wright :: Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre
104. Pavel Yarmolenko :: National Institutes of Health

The 2^nd National Image Guided Therapy Workshop

The 2^nd Image Guided Therapy Workshop was successfully held on March 10-11, 2008 in Arlington, VA.

Registration and Hotel: Registration and Hotel Information for the workshop. Please note that there is no registration fee for the workshop but the workshop capacity is limited to 100 attendees, and registration will be closed after that count is reached.

Goal

On behalf of the National Cancer Institute (NCI), National Center for Research Resources (NCRR), National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB), and the National Center for Image-Guided Therapy (NCIGT) at the Brigham & Women’s Hospital, it is our pleasure to announce an upcoming workshop on “Clinical Image-Guided Therapy: Opportunities and Needs” and invite you to attend and participate in the workshop.

This workshop will be held on March 10-11, 2008 at the Rockville Hilton in Rockville, Maryland and will be composed of scientific sessions in areas of neuro-, prostate, and body interventions, focused ultrasound, and targeted drug-delivery, as well as imaging, computation and visualization technologies in support of image-guided therapies (IGT). There will also be parallel hands-on breakout sessions focused on various applications of the Slicer visualization modules. In addition, the organizers would like to invite submission of abstracts on clinical IGT for poster presentations at the meeting. Scientific abstracts may be submitted for the poster session of this workshop. Deadline for submission of abstracts is 5 pm EST January 24, 2008, with further details available below.

We expect attendance by the members of the academia, industry, and federal agencies interested in the field of image-guided interventions.

The overall goal of this workshop is to asses the current needs and opportunities in the field of image-guided interventions and NCIGT’s role as a national center in relation to the greater IGT community. In order to best achieve this goal it is important for all participants to attend both days of the workshop. The preliminary program for the workshop is currently available below and further details on the program and the logistics will be available in January.

Program Contacts

Keyvan Farahani, PhD
Acting Chief
Image-Guided Interventions Branch
Cancer Imaging Program
National Cancer Institute
Email: Farahani@nih.gov

Clare Tempany, MD
Professor of Radiology
Harvard Medical School
Brigham & Women’s Hospital
Email: ctempany@bwh.harvard.edu

Call for Poster Abstracts

Poster Sessions

There will be a working lunch poster session during both days of the workshop and abstract submissions will be considered for exhibits during the poster sessions. Prospective attendees are encouraged to submit abstracts describing their research in areas related to clinical image-guided therapy for consideration of exhibition in the Poster Sessions of the workshop.

Abstract Format, Submission and Acceptance

Authors should organize the abstract (250 words or less) in four sections: Purpose, Methods, Results, and Conclusions, identified by bold headers. Submissions may be made by sending your abstract to ncigt-workshop-posters@bwh.harvard.edu. Deadline for submission of abstracts is 5 pm EST January 24, 2008. All submissions will be reviewed by the Scientific Committee of the workshop for scientific merit and program relevance. Principal authors will be notified of the result of the abstract review by Feb 2, 2008.

Guidelines for Poster Format

The poster boards are 8′ wide x 4′ long. Each poster should not be larger than 4′ wide and 4′ long so that two posters can fit on each board.

Program Committee

• Ferenc Jolesz, M.D., Brigham and Women’s Hospital
• Clare Tempany, M.D., Brigham and Women’s Hospital
• Ron Kikinis, M.D., Brigham and Women’s Hospital
• Keyvan Farahani, PhD, National Cancer Institute, NIH
• Abraham Levy, PhD, National Center for Research Resources, NIH
• John Haller, PhD, National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering, NIH

PrOCEEDINGS

Program

Monday March 10

8:00 – 8:15 am Introduction: Keyvan Farahani, PhD (NIH)
8:15 – 8:45 am Day 1 Keynote: Ferenc Jolesz, MD (BWH)

Session 1: Prostate Chair Keyvan Farahani (CIP/NCI)

8:45 – 9:05 am Session Keynote: Peter Choyke, MD (NIH)
9:05 – 9:20 am Clare Tempany, MD (NCIGT/BWH)
9:20 – 9:35 am Cynthia Menard, MD (Toronto)
9:35 – 10:05 am Speakers Panel

10:05-10:20am Break

Session 2: Body Chair Pushpa Tandon (CIP/NCI)

10:20 – 10:40 am Session Keynote: Gerald Dodd, III, MD (UTHSC, San Antonio)
10:40 – 10:55 am Kemal Tuncali, MD (NCIGT/BWH)
10:55 – 11:10 am Dennis Fowler, PhD (Columbia)
11:10 – 11:25 am Mehran Armand, PhD (Johns Hopkins)
11:25 – 11: 55 am Speakers Panel

11:55 am-1pm Lunch

Session 3: Neurosurgery Chair John Haller (NIBIB)

1:00 – 1:20 pm Session Keynote: Walter Hall, MD, PhD (U Minnesota)
1:20 – 1:35 pm Ferenc Jolesz (NCIGT/BWH)
1:35 – 1:50 pm Xenophon Papademetris, PhD (Yale)
1:50 – 2:05 pm Mathew Gounis, PhD (UMASS, Worcester)
2:05 – 2:35 pm Speakers Panel

2:35-3:35 pm Poster Presentations

Session 4: Computation and Visualization Chair Abraham Levy (NCRR)

3:35 – 4:05 pm George Chen, PhD (MGH)
4:05 – 4:20 pm Sandy Wells, PhD (NCIGT/BWH) (slides)
4:20 – 4:35 pm Michael Miga, PhD (Vanderbilt)
4:35 – 4:50 pm George Stetten, PhD (U Pittsburgh)
4:50 – 5:05 pm Robert Cormack, PhD (Rad Onc, BWH) (slides)
5:05 – 5:35 pm Speakers Panel

5:45-6:45 pm: Parallel Breakout Sessions: Link to the detailed page

Breakout Session 1: DTI/fMRI Acquisition and Visualization for Neurosurgery: Steve Whalen (slides), Lauren O’Donnell (slides)

Breakout Session 2: Slicer Prostate Module: Steve Haker, Noby Hata (slides)

Breakout Session 3: Liver Visualization: Nicu Archip, Paul Morrison (slides)

Tuesday March 11

8:00 – 8:10 am Introduction
8:10 – 8:40 am Day 2 Keynote: Chrit Moonen, PhD (U Bordeaux, France)

Session 5: Focused Ultrasound Chair Hector Lopez (NIBIB)

8:40 – 9:00 am Session Keynote: Kullervo Hynynen (U Toronto)
9:00 – 9:15 am Greg Clement, PhD (NCIGT/BWH)
9:15 – 9:30 am Patrick Wolf, PhD (Duke)
9:30 – 9:45 am Guillerno Tearney, PhD (MGH)
9:45 – 10:15 am Speakers Panel

10:15 -10:30 am Break

Session 6: Imaging Chair Abraham Levy (NCRR)

10:30 – 10:50 am Session Keynote: John Pauly, PhD (Stanford)
10:50 – 11:05 am Larry Panych, PhD (NCIGT/BWH) (slides)
11:05 – 11:20 am Erez Nevo, MD, PhD (Robin Medical Inc.)
11:20 – 11:35 am Ehud Schmidt, PhD (BWH)
11:35 – 12:00 pm Speakers Panel

12:00 pm-1pm: Lunch

Session 7: Targeted Drug and Cell Delivery Chair Keyvan Farahani (NCI)

1:00 – 1:20 pm Session Keynote: Zaver Bhujwalla, PhD (Johns Hopkins)
1:20 – 1:35 pm Nathan McDannold, PhD (NCIGT/BWH)
1:35 – 1:50 pm Alexander L Klibanov, Ph.D. (U Virginia)
1:50 – 2:05 pm Jeff Bulte, PhD (Johns Hopkins)
2:05 – 2:35 pm Speakers Panel
2:35 – 2:45 pm Concluding Remarks

Adjournment

Poster Session

Prostate

1. Song – A Pilot Study of Intraoperative Dynamic Dosimetry using Registered Ultrasound and Fluoroscopy (RUF) for Permanent Prostate Brachytherapy
2. Fichtinger – Robotic Assistance for Ultrasound Guided Prostate Brachytherapy
3. Mozer – Fully-Automated Robot for MRI Guided Prostate Interventions
4. Krieger- MRI Guided Prostate Biopsy and Marker Placements
5. Mozer – Framework for 3D TransRectal Ultrasound (TRUS) Image-Based Tracking
6. Feleppa Planning and guidance of prostate-cancer therapy using tissue-type images generated from registered magnetic-resonance and ultrasound spectra
7. Josan – MRI-guided Cryoablation – Acute Cryolesion Assessment with T1 and T2 Imaging
8. Kruecker- Fusion of Pre-Acquired MRI with Transrectal Ultrasound for Realtime Interventional Guidance in the Prostate

Body

1. Cheng – EM Tracking Guided Lung Biopsy – P. Cheng
2. Yaniv- Navigated Radiofrequency (NAV-RFA) Ablation of Liver Tumors
3. Armiger – An Intraoperative Biomedical Guidance System for Periacetabular Osteotomy
4. Iftima – Image-Guided Intervention System for Pancreatic Cancer screening and Therapy

Neurosurgery

1. Zibly- MR-Guided High Intensity Focused Ultrasound (MRgHIFU) – Cranial Nerve Thermal Injury Preliminary Results
2. Xia- A Cooperatively-Controlled Image Guided Robot System for Skull Base Surgery
3. Levene- Aberration Correction of GRIN lenses for Multipohoton-Microscopy – Guided Neurosurgery
4. xCAT: Mobile Intraoperative CT Scanners for Head and neck Surgery – Clinthorne
5. Protein-Based MR Imaging of Human Brain Tumors at 3T – Zhou & van Zijl

Cardiovascular

1. Chuech- Vascular Replicas for the Simulation of Image-Guided Stroke Therapy
2. Shmatukha- Vasculature-based Co-registration of X-ray and MR Images for the Guidance of Cardiovascular Interventions
3. Linte- Minimally Invasive Intracardiac Therapy Using Augmented Reality Enhanced Ultrasound
4. Wolf- In vitro ARFI Imaging of Cardiac Ablation Lesions
5. Nikoozadeh- Intracardiac Ultrasound Imaging Catheters Intergrated with Electrophysiology Electrodes and Ablation Devices
6. Wilson- Fabrication, Deflecftion, and Heating of Magnetically-Steered Catheters
7. Hetts- Magnetic Catheter Deflection and Navigation at 1.5 Tesla
8. Zhang- Image-guided Acoustic Droplet Vaporization (ADV) for Tissue Occlusion
9. Salomon- Image-Guided Vascular Targeted Photodynamic Therapy Using Photosensitized (Ps) Bold MRI

Imaging, Computation, & Visualization

1. Miga- Model-based Approaches to Enhancing Guidance for Surgical Therapy
2. Papademetris- From Medical Image Computing to Computer Aided Intervention: Development of a Research Interface for Image Guided Navigation
3. Galeotti- Holographic Display for In-Situ Merger of Real-Time Tomographic Data with Direct Vision
4. Tgavalekos – Preliminary Results for Instrument Tip Tracking During Interventional Oncology Procedures
5. Todd- Using thermal model predictions to improve MR temperature imaging time resolution
6. Payne- Minimization of HIFU Treatment Time using Model Predictive Feedback Control
7. Mao- A Novel Algorithm for Automatic Detection of Multiple Internal Fiducial Markers on Onboard MV and kV Images
8. Wiersma- Combined kV and MV Imaging for Real-Time Tracking of Implanted Fiducial Markers

The 1^st National Image Guided Therapy Workshop

The 1^st Image Guided Therapy Workshop was successfully held on October 19-20, 2006, with over 75 registered attendees. A summary white paper was published in: DiMaio S.P., Kapur T., Cleary K., Aylward S., Kazanzides P., Vosburgh K.G., Ellis R., Duncan J., Farahani K., Lemke H., Peters T., Lorensen W., Gobbi D., Haller J., Clarke L., Pizer S., Taylor R., Galloway Jr R., Fichtinger G., Hata N., Lawson K., Tempany C.M., Kikinis R., Jolesz F.A. Challenges in Image-guided Therapy System Design. NeuroImage 2007 Sep; 37(Suppl 1):S144-S51. PMID: 17644360. PMCID: PMC3780776.

Registration and Attendee List

Registration Fee: US $250.00 payable onsite only by check payable to “BWPO Radiology” or cash. We can not accept credit cards, or payments before the meeting.

Registration: Registration for this workshop is quite simple. To register, please follow two steps:

1. Create an account for yourself on this wiki by clicking here.
2. After creating the account, go to the 2006 IGT Workshop Attendee List and add your name, Institution, an email address, and the name of the breakout session you will be attending on Friday.

Goal

The goal of this workshop is to bring together researchers developing Image-Guided Therapy (IGT) systems for a 2-day workshop to share their recent advances and to identify synergies in future strategy. The intent of the workshop is to foster community-based development, to share best practices in engineering such systems, to identify gaps in the engineering infrastructure available to IGT researchers, and ultimately to facilitate the transfer of technology among NIH-sponsored research centers.

In this program, we define IGT systems as the integrated devices for therapy delivery that incorporate intra-operative medical imaging, navigation, or robotics. In the lectures and breakout groups of this two-day workshop, we plan to:

1. discuss system architectures currently used in IGT systems
2. identify challenges in the design and implementation of IGT systems
3. identify gaps in the engineering infrastructure available to IGT researchers
4. identify opportunities and mechanisms for sharing low-level components and high-level architectural design patterns, and
5. identify opportunities for the National Center for Image Guided Therapy (NCIGT) to help address these challenges and develop an open system architecture as part of its function as a biotechnology resource for the Image-Guided Therapy community.

The workshop will concentrate on the computer science and engineering aspects of such systems, as the clinical aspects have been covered in previous NIH-related workshops. The agenda will include plenary talks that will review technical aspects of IGT as well as breakout sessions in which the participants will concentrate on issues raised by the talks.

Background on this workshop

The initial idea of this workshop was developed in ad-hoc meetings with collaborators across institutions including Georgetown, Johns Hopkins, UNC, NIH, GE Global Research, Kitware Inc., and Brigham and Women’s Hospital. The Program Committee welcomed and encouraged suggestions from the IGT community on the content of this workshop until mid July, 2006, when the program was finalized.

Sponsors

We would like to gratefully acknowledge our industry sponsors whose financial support is helping us keep the registration fee low.

• GE Healthcare
• Siemens Corporate Research (SCR)
• Northern Digital (NDI)
• Medtronic Navigation
• Brainlab
• Acoustic Med

If your company would like to sponsor the workshop, please send an email to tkapur at bwh.harvard.edu for additional information.

Hotel Logistics

Date: October 19-20 (Thursday-Friday), 2006.

Location/Hotel: The Doubletree Hotel & Executive Meeting Center, 1750 Rockville Pike, Rockville, Maryland 20852. Phone number: +1 (301) 468-1100. Room rates for the meeting were US $166/night (+ applicable taxes) for reservations made prior to September 29, 2006 12am using the group code “BRI”. After that date, rates revert to the regular ($300+/nt) and we are unable to get the hotel to release additional rooms at the lower rate.

Please note that the conference hotel only has rooms blocked for October 19th night. If you are need accommodation for additional nights, a conveniently located area hotel is the Ramada Inn, 1775 Rockville Pike, Rockville, MD 20852. Phone (301) 881-2300.

Subway Information

Subway Map

• Directions from Washington Reagan International Airport (DCA) to the Doubletree Hotel:
  • Take the Yellow Line to Gallery Place
  • At Gallery Place, switch to the Red Line (going toward Shady Grove)
  • Get off at Twinbrook; the Doubletree is across the street

Program Committee

Ferenc Jolesz, M.D., Brigham and Women’s Hospital, is the Workshop Chair. The program committee includes:

• Kevin Cleary, Ph.D., Georgetown
• Peter Kazanzides, Ph.D, Johns Hopkins
• Keyvan Farahani, Ph.D., NIH
• Bill Lorensen, M.S, GE Global Research
• Stephen Aylward, Ph.D., UNC, Kitware Inc.
• Randy Ellis, Ph.D., Brigham and Women’s Hospital
• Ron Kikinis, M.D., Brigham and Women’s Hospital
• Clare Tempany, M.D., Brigham and Women’s Hospital

Organizing Committee

• Simon DiMaio, Ph.D., Brigham and Women’s Hospital
• Noby Hata, Ph.D., Brigham and Women’s Hospital
• Dan Kacher, M.S., Brigham and Women’s Hospital
• Eigil Samset, Ph.D., Brigham and Women’s Hospital
• Tina Kapur, Ph.D., Brigham and Women’s Hospital
• William M. Wells, Ph.D, Brigham and Women’s Hospital
• Marianna Jakab, M.S., Brigham and Women’s Hospital
• Debbie O’Shea Begley, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Workshop Coordinator
• Katie Mastrogiacomo, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Workshop Staff

Agenda>>

Thursday, October 19, 2006

• 1:00-1:10pm: Welcome (Ferenc Jolesz, Brigham and Women’s Hospital)
• 1:10-1:15pm: Why Open Source Will Make Our Lives Better (Ron Kikinis, Brigham and Women’s Hospital) (Kikinis Talk Summary)
• 1:15-1:20pm: Goals for the Workshop (Randy Ellis, Brigham and Women’s Hospital)
• 1:20-1:40pm: IGT System Design (Kevin Cleary, Georgetown University)
• 1:40-2:00pm: IGT Software Design and Process (Bill Lorensen, GE Research)
• 2:00-2:20pm: IGT System Engineering (Peter Kazanzides, Johns Hopkins University)
• 2:20-2:40pm: IGT User Interfaces and Human-Computer Interactions (Randy Ellis, Brigham and Women’s Hospital)
• 2:40-3:00pm: Evolution of a VR-Based IGT Environment (Terry Peters & David Gobbi, Robarts Research Institute, University of Western Ontario)
• 3:00-3:20pm: System Challenges in Image-Analysis for Radiation Therapy (Steve Pizer, UNC)
• 3:20-3:40pm: Platform Technology for Multiple IGT applications (Bob Galloway, Vanderbilt)
• 3:40-4:00pm: Coffee Break
• 4:00-5:30pm: Panel Discussion I Chair: Jim Duncan, Yale.
• 5:30-6:30pm: Program Committee to capture the discussions and recommendations for the session

Friday, October 20, 2006

• 8:00am: Continental Breakfast
• 8:55am: Welcome back
• 9:00-9:20am: Successes and Challenges in Therapy Delivery (Gabor Fichtinger, Johns Hopkins University)
• 9:20-9:40am: IGT Challenges and Suggestions for Center (Heinz Lemke, Univerity of Southern California/CARS) (see also: The Operating Room and the need for an IT infrastructure and standards)
• 9:40-10:00am:Successes and Challenges in Effectors and Scanner Control (Noby Hata, Brigham and Women’s Hospital)
• 10:00-10:15am: NIBIB Perspective on IGT Research (John Haller, NIH)
• 10:15-10:30am: NCI/NIST Perspective on IGT Research (Larry Clarke, NIH)
• 10:30-11:00am: Break
• 11:00-11:40am: Panel Discussion II, Chair: Keyvan Farahani, NIH
• 11:40-11:50pm: Instructions for Breakout Groups
• 11:50-1:00pm: Lunch
• 1:00-2:30pm: Breakout discussions2:30pm-2:45pm: Coffee Break
  • Breakout Session 1: Workflows for IGT(WORKFLOW)(Moderator: Stephen Aylward)
  • Breakout Session 2: Validation (VALIDATION) (Moderator: Kirby Vosburgh)
  • Breakout Session 3: Interfaces to Robots(ROBOT) (Moderator: Peter Kazanzides)
  • Breakout Session 4: Tracking(TRACKING) (Moderators: Tina Kapur, Simon DiMaio)
  • Breakout Session 5: IGT Case Study: Radiation Therapy for Prostate(RAD) (Moderator: Clare Tempany)
• 2:45pm-3:30pm: Plenary Session (report back from each breakout session)
• 3:30pm: Adjourn (all except Program and Organizing Committees)

For Program and Organizing Committee:

• 3:30-4:30pm: Data gathering and documentation planning

Community Links

OpenTracker

• SPLOT – OpenTracker Extension

Contact

For further information about the program please contact: Tina Kapur (tkapur at bwh.harvard.edu)

If you would like to be added to the mailing list for the workshop, please contact: Marianna Jakab (marianna at bwh.harvard.edu)

List of Attendees

1. Purang Abolmaesumi :: Queen’s University :: purang at cs.queensu.ca
2. Arnon Amir :: IBM Research, San Jose, CA :: arnon at almaden.ibm.com
3. Stephen Aylward :: Kitware, Inc. :: Stephen.Aylward at Kitware.com
4. Debbie Begley :: Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School :: djo at bwh.harvard.edu
5. Luc Bidaut :: MD Anderson Cancer Center :: lbidaut at mdanderson.org
6. Jeff Biegus :: Northern Digital Inc :: jbiegus at ndigital.com
7. Michael T. Brown :: GE Global Research :: brownmt at research.ge.com
8. Clemens Bulitta :: Siemens Medical Solutions :: clemens.bulitta at siemens.com
9. Everette C Burdette :: Acoustic MedSystems, Inc. :: clifb at acousticmed.com
10. Ed Chaney :: UNC :: chaney at med.unc.edu
11. Patrick Cheng :: Georgetown University :: cheng at isis.georgetown.edu
12. Laurence Clarke :: National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health :: lclarke at mail.nih.gov
13. Kevin Cleary :: Georgetown University :: cleary at georgetown.edu
14. Zohara Cohen :: NIBIB/National Institutes of Health :: zcohen at mail.nih.gov
15. Ram D. Sriram :: National Institute of Standards and Technology :: sriram at nist.gov
16. Simon DiMaio :: Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School :: simond at bwh.harvard.edu
17. Jim Duncan :: Yale University :: duncan at begrow.med.yale.edu
18. Randy Ellis :: Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School :: ellis at bwh.harvard.edu
19. Andinet Enquobahrie :: Kitware, Inc. :: andinet.enqu at kitware.com
20. Keyvan Farahani :: National Institutes of Health :: farhank at mail.nih.gov
21. Gabor Fichtinger :: Johns Hopkins University :: gabor at cs.jhu.edu
22. Sven Flossmann :: BrainLAB, AG :: sven.flossmann at brainlab.com
23. Bob Galloway :: Vanderbilt University :: bob.galloway at vanderbilt.edu
24. David Gobbi :: Atamai, Inc. :: dgobbi at atamai.com
25. Dan Groszmann :: GE Global Research :: daniel.groszmann at med.ge.com
26. David Gustafson :: Abla-Tx, Inc. :: dgustafson at abla-tx.com
27. John Haller :: National Institutes of Health :: hallerj at mail.nih.gov
28. Steve Hartmann :: Medtronic Navigation :: steve.hartmann at medtronic.com
29. Chris Hasser :: Intuitive Surgical, Inc. :: chris.hasser at intusurg.com
30. Noby Hata :: Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School :: hata at bwh.harvard.edu
31. Antony Hodgson :: University of British Columbia :: ahodgson at mech.ubc.ca
32. Scott Hoge :: Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School :: shoge at bwh.harvard.edu
33. David Holmes :: Mayo Clinic College of Medicine :: holmes.david3 at mayo.edu
34. Ferenc Jolesz :: Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School :: jolesz at bwh.harvard.edu
35. Tina Kapur :: Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School :: tkapur at bwh.harvard.edu
36. Peter Kazanzides :: Johns Hopkins University :: pkaz at jhu.edu
37. Ali Khamene :: Siemens Corporate Research :: ali.khamene at siemens.com
38. Ron Kikinis :: Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School :: kikinis at bwh.harvard.edu
39. Marcin Kociolek :: National Institute of Standards and Technology :: marcin at cme.nist.gov
40. John Kroon :: ImageGuide :: johnkroon at earthlink.net
41. Jochen Kruecker :: Philips Research :: jochen.kruecker at philips.com
42. Cynthia Landberg :: GE Global Research :: landberg at research.ge.com
43. Heinz Lemke :: University of Leipzig :: hulemke at cars-int.org
44. Abraham Levy :: NCRR/National Institutes of Health :: levyabra at mail.nih.gov
45. Haying Liu :: Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School :: hliu at bwh.harvard.edu
46. Hector Lopez :: NIBIB/National Institutes of Health :: lopezh at mail.nih.gov
47. Bill Lorensen :: GE Global Research :: lorensen at crd.ge.com
48. Katie Mastrogiacomo :: Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School :: kmast at bwh.harvard.edu
49. Desikachari Nadadur :: Abla-Tx, Inc. :: dnadadur at abla-tx.com
50. Chris Nafis :: GE Global Research :: nafis at crd.ge.com
51. Xenios Papademetris :: Yale University :: xenophon.papademetris at yale.edu
52. Grace Peng :: NIBIB/National Institutes of Health :: penggr at mail.nih.gov
53. Terry Peters :: Robarts Research Institution :: tpeters at imaging.robarts.ca
54. Steve Pieper :: Isomics, Inc. :: pieper at bwh.harvard.edu
55. Steve Pizer :: UNC :: pizer at cs.unc.edu
56. Eigil Samset :: Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School :: samset at bwh.harvard.edu
57. Guy Shechter :: Philips Research :: guy.shechter at philips.com
58. Eric Shen :: Philips Research :: e.shen at philips.com
59. Jeff Stanley :: Northern Digital Inc :: jstanley at ndigital.com
60. Chuck Stevens :: Ascension Technology Corp. :: cstevens at ascension-tech.com
61. Clare Tempany :: Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School :: ctempany at bwh.harvard.edu
62. Kirby Vosburgh :: Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School :: kvosburgh at partners.org
63. Ziv Yaniv :: Georgetown University :: zivy at isis.georgetown.edu
64. Dwight Yen :: Food and Drug Admin :: dwight.yen at fda.hhs.gov
65. Terry Yoo :: National Institutes of Health :: yoo at nlm.nih.gov
66. Joel Zuhars :: GE Global Research :: joel.zuhars at med.ge.com