From the discovery of x-rays in 1895 to the utilization of ultrasound, MRI, and CT scanners in the 1960s and 70s, health care has long depended on imaging to provide the best quality diagnostics and care for patients. Now, as new forms of imaging such as virtual reality and augmented reality hit the scene, researchers including Jayender Jagadeesan, PhD, of the Surgical Planning Lab in the Radiology Department at BWH, look to bring these imaging techniques into the operating room. As the most immersive type of imaging, virtual reality (VR) takes the user into a

The 25th Project Week was held in Catanzaro Lido, Italy. More...

Frank Preiswerk, PhD honored with the Young Investigator Cum Laude Award of the ISMRM for his pioneering work on "Hybrid MRI-Ultrasound Acquisitions, and Scannerless Real-Time Imaging”. Dr. Preiswerk is a postdoctoral fellow at the National Center for Image Guided Therapy, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, in the Advanced Lab for MRI and Acoustics. Each year, the Young Investigator Awards recognize outstanding research by trainees and junior members of the ISMRM. The award ceremony took place at this year’s ISMRM annual meeting in Honolulu, HI, in April 2017.

Jayender Jagadeesan, PhD, an Assistant Professor working in the Surgical Planning Lab in the Radiology department at Brigham and Women’s hospital, has been named one of the 2017 Medtech Boston 40 Under 40 Healthcare Innovators for his work in surgical robotics and image-guided procedures in the BWH AMIGO Suite. Read more...

Experts, Clare M. Tempany-Afdhal, MD, Sung Yoon Park, MD, PhD, and Jelle Barentsz, MD, PhD, weigh in on PI-RADS v2 — a simplified scoring system focusing on the detection and exclusion of clinically significant prostate cancer. More...

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, MD 20814, USA. 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

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The February issue of Magnetic Resonance on Medicine featured the lab’s research in 3D Printing for Image Guided-Therapy.  Mitsouras D, Lee TC, Liacouras P, Ionita CN, Pietilla T, Maier SE, Mulkern RV. Three-dimensional Printing of MRI-visible Phantoms and MR Image-guided Therapy Simulation. Magn Reson Med. 2017;77 (2) :613-22.

We are delighted to announce the creation of the Ferenc Jolesz MD professorship at Harvard Medical School. This honors Ferenc A. Jolesz (1946-2014), the B. Leonard Holman professor of Radiology at Brigham & Women’s Hospital, a visionary scientist who established the NCIGT in 2005. A pioneer in the field of image guided therapy- often called the “father of IGT’, Ferenc was born in Budapest graduated medical school at Semmelweiss in 1971 and fellowships in neurology and physiology at MGH and Harvard. He led the division of MRI in the department of Radiology from  1990-

Patients, radiologists, and specialists share how advances in imaging technologies are offering more precise diagnoses and treatments—and guiding medical and surgical procedures in real time. Brigham Health - Winter 2016/17.  Read more...

Shinn-Huey S. Chou, MD, mentored by NCIGT Investigator Jayender Jagadeesan, PhD and collaborator Eva Gombos, MD has been awarded an RSNA 2016 Travel Award for young investigators.  She will be presenting "Quantitative Heterogeneity Analysis of DCIS Grades and Types on Breast MRI" at the meeting.

Nathalie Agar, PhD, director of the Surgical Molecular Imaging Laboratory in the Department of Neurosurgery, is part of a collaboration that was recently awarded a five-year, $9.7 million grant from the National Cancer Institute (NCI) to support a Physical Sciences-Oncology Center (PS-OC). 

Mayo Clinic, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), the Translational Genomics Research Institute (TGen), the University of Minnesota

Clare Tempany, MD gave a Keynote Lecture at the 19th International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention. YouTube Video is available here.