News and Events
March 8-9, 2010
3rd Annual Image-Guided Therapy Workshop
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.
October 1, 2009
IMRIS and Brigham and Women's Hospital Announce Purchase of IMRISNV and IMRIScardio. More...
June 11, 2009
AMIGO Ground Breaking
March 2009
Non-Invasive, Radiation-Free Technology as Pain-Killing Treatment for Bone Metastases.
A Prostate Cancer Foundation Report.
October 6-7, 2008
MRgFUS Symposium 2008
The meeting is of interest to researchers, clinicians, managers, educators and commentators, and will provide a comprehensive overview of this rapidly evolving field.
July 2008
The Operating Room of the Future
Advanced imaging technologies are transforming therapy
NCRR Reporter, Summer 2008 Vol. XXXII, No. 2
May 13, 2008
New Treatment Bubbles Up from Old Imaging Technology
The Spotlight article in the May 13, 2008 issue of the NCI Cancer Bulletin features Focused Ultrasound and the March 2008 NCIGT Clinical workshop.
March 10-11, 2008
2008 Clinical IGT Workshop
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, organized a workshop on Clinical Image-Guided Therapy: Opportunities and Needs.
November 2, 2007
MICCAI 2007 workshop
The Insight Software Consortium (ISC) and the National Alliance for Medical Image Computing (NA-MIC) will host a one-day MICCAI 2007 workshop featuring peer-reviewed, Open Science publications that highlight open source data and software.
November 2, 2007
Registration Workshop, MICCAI 2007
Statistical Registration: Pair-wise and Group-wise Alignment and Atlas Formation, co-organized by Dr. William Wells at the Surgical Planning Laboratory, is to be held in conjunction with MICCAI 2007.
May 5, 2007
Brain Science Foundation - Meningioma Awareness Day
This conference will be the first to focus exclusively on the health issues experienced by patients of meningioma, the most common type of all primary brain and central nervous system (CNS) tumors.
April 24, 2007
New Hi-Tech Images Guide Surgeons' Hands
U.S.News&World Report
February 21, 2007
SIGNA MRT Serial# 000 Obituary
This system really had a most remarkable history. The first human procedure on April 15 1994, a biopsy of a pelvic tumor was the start of many clinical firsts.
February 5, 2007
Symposium on MR-guided High Intensity Focused Ultrasound
The purpose of the symposium is to demonstrate both the clinical capabilities and research opportunities for focused ultrasound techniques.
February 1-2, 2007
7th National Forum on Biomedical Imaging in Oncology
The forum focuses on mechanisms, processes, and supporting infrastructure necessary for conducting clinical trials of scientific interest to academia and NCI.
December 5, 2006
Edward M. Kennedy Award for Healthcare Innovation
The honor went to doctors and scientists who make up the CIMIT Image Guided Therapy team from Brigham and Women’s Hospital.
October 19-20, 2006
NCIGT Open System Architecture Workshop
The National Center for Image Guided Therapy (NCIGT), in partnership with the National Alliance for Medical Image Analysis (NA-MIC) is organizing a workshop on Open System Architecture for Image-Guided Therapy.
November 11-12, 2006
MRI-Guided Therapy Symposium-Focus on Cryotherapy
The Symposium is a comprehensive program presenting practical aspects to assist in developing an MRI-guided cryoablation program.
August 25, 2006
Neurosurgery Milestone
BWH completes 1,000th Intraoperative MR-guided Craniotomy, as it marks the 10th anniversary of this landmark procedure.
As a national leader in the Neurosciences and one of only 10 U.S. hospitals with the resources and expertise to perform intraoperative MR-guided craniotomies, BWH is the first hospital in the world to perform 1,000 of them.