New Operating Room At BWH Helps Breast Cancer Patients Avoid Multiple Surgeries

December 7, 2012

WBZ News Story on AMIGO: There is no other operating room like this in world. More...

Research into Breast Cancer Procedure Could Prevent Repeat Surgeries

November 30, 2012

BWH Bulletin on Breast Research in AMIGO. More...

In Memoriam: Paul Morrison, Medical Physicist

October 26, 2012

BWH Radiology mourns the loss of Paul Morrison, MS, who died on September 24 after battling cancer. A medical physicist whose expertise encompassed MRI and laser safety, Mr. Morrison worked at BWH for more than 20 years. Colleagues described their admiration for his kind...

9th Interventional MRI Symposium

September 22, 2012

The 5th NCIGT and NIH Image Guided Therapy Workshop

September 21, 2012

The 5th Image Guided Therapy Workshop was successfully held with 147 registered attendees. Read more...

Navigation Options in the AMIGO Suite Expanded to Include the Megrez System by Symbow Medical

September 1, 2012

The Megrez navigation system (Symbow Medical, Beijing, China) was installed in the Advanced Multimodality Image Guided Operating (AMIGO) suite of the Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women’s Hospital. Symbowmed joins the family of navigation systems present in AMIGO which include products from BrainLab, Hologic, Robin Medical, and St. Jude. Megrez is a portable system designed to support interventional therapeutic procedures under image guidance, to realize both real-time interactive and offline navigation. Its unique MRI compatible features enabled integration with the high...

A Review of the First Year of AMIGO

August 19, 2012

Over the past year, we have launched a number of new programs for several important conditions that are forwarding the mission of the Advanced Advanced Multimodality Multimodality Image Guided Operating Operating suite to demonstrate demonstrate that advanced imaging and image‐based information may be integrated into surgical and interventional procedures to provide improved clinical outcomes and long term prognosis....