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NCRR's Division of Biomedical Technology supports research to develop innovative technologies and helps make them accessible to the biomedical research community.

NCRR's Division of Biomedical Technology supports research to develop innovative technologies and helps make them accessible to the biomedical research community.

NCRR's Division of Biomedical Technology supports research to develop innovative technologies and helps make them accessible to the biomedical research community.

NCRR's Division of Biomedical Technology supports research to develop innovative technologies and helps make them accessible to the biomedical research community.

NCRR's Division of Biomedical Technology supports research to develop innovative technologies and helps make them accessible to the biomedical research community.

National Resource Center for Image-Guided Therapy

National Resource Center for Image-Guided Therapy

Department of Radiology
Brigham and Women's Hospital
Harvard Medical School
75 Francis Street
Boston, MA 02115
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Grant No. P41 RR019703

Principal Investigator and Contact
Ferenc A. Jolesz, M.D.
617-732-5961; Fax: 617-582-6033

Additional contacts
Ron Kikinis, M.D.
617-732-7389; Fax: 617-582-6033

Research Emphasis

Research is focused on image guided therapy.

Resource Capabilities

Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)-guided surgery and interventions, thermal ablations, focused ultrasound therapy, surgical planning, image processing, MRI, positron emission tomography, computed tomography, X-ray ultrasound, segmentation, registration, computer-assisted surgery, robotics, intraoperative MRI, advanced multimodality image guided operating room, and multidisciplinary training in image guided therapy.

Publications

  1. Jolesz, F. A., Hynynen, K., McDannold, N., and Tempany, C., MR imaging-controlled focused ultrasound ablation: A noninvasive image-guided surgery. Magnetic Resonance Imaging Clinics of North America 13:545–560, 2006.

  2. McDannold, N., Vykhodtseva, N., Raymond, S., Jolesz, F. A., and Hynynen, K., MRI-guided targeted blood-brain barrier disruption with focused ultrasound: Histological findings in rabbits. Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology 31:1527–1537, 2005.

  3. Clatz, O., Delingette, H., Talos, I. F., et al., Robust nonrigid registration to capture brain shift from intraoperative MRI. IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging 4:1417–1427, 2005.

  4. Carrino, J. A. and Jolesz, F. A., MRI-guided interventions. Academic Radiology 12:1063-1064, 2005.

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