National Center for Image-Guided Therapy
Featured Image: An intraoperative brain shift monitor using shear mode transcranial ultrasound: preliminary results
Left: Detail of an oblique MRI scan (SE T1, TR = 650 ms, TE = 10 ms, FOV = 12.0 cm × 12.0 cm, slice thickness = 3.0 mm) that has been registered with the ITUM's signal path (solid line) through the ICSF (arrow). Right: Results of the statistical analysis to validate the ability of the ITUM to localize intracranial structures against the "gold standard" of MR imaging. The location of intracranial structures as measured by the ITUM is plotted against the same measurement performed by MRI. More...
The National Center for Image Guided Therapy (NCIGT) is an NIH funded Biomedical Technology Resource Center. The NCIGT serves as a national resource for all aspects of research into medical procedures enhanced by imaging, with the common goal of providing more effective patient care.
Based at the Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School in Boston, Massachusetts, the NCIGT is lead by Ferenc A. Jolesz M.D. and Clare Tempany M.D. and includes the work of more than one hundred physicians, scientists, and technical staff members.
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3rd Annual Image-Guided Therapy Workshop
March 8-9, 2010, Washington DC.
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.
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