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

Proceedings

Proceedings of the Workshop are available for download (in pdf format) here.

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

Additional information about the conference is available here.