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Surgical Planning Laboratory
Brigham & Women's Hospital
Boston, Massachusetts USA
a teaching affiliate of Harvard Medical School
Featured Image: Magnetic resonance acoustic radiation force imaging.
MR-ARFI in an ex vivo kidney sample. a T2-weighted image showing the sample, and the transducer. An acoustically absorbent phantom was placed on top of the sample to hold it in place. B and C Maps of the displacement during two sonications applied before b and after c focused ultrasound thermal ablation. D MR temperature image acquired during ablation. E Plots showing displacement in the focal plane before and after ablation. The average of three lines is shown in this plot. The normalized spatial distribution of the temperature rise at peak temperature rise during ablation is also shown. The peak temperature rise achieved during this sonication was 31 ° C.
The Surgical Planning Laboratory is a research laboratory in the Department of Radiology of Brigham and Women's Hospital. The Core Mission of the SPL is the extraction of medically relevant information from diagnostic imaging data and to concepts of computation and image analysis to new field of biomedical research. The lab collaborates with groups within Brigham and Women's Hospital, with other researchers at the Harvard Medical School, with local universities such as Harvard and MIT, and with clinicians, researchers, and engineers throughout the world.
The 3D Interactive Visualization of DICOM Images with Slicer course is offered by the National Alliance for Medical Image Computing (NA-MIC) in conjunction with the Neuroimage Analysis Center (NAC) and the National Center for Image Guided Therapy (NCIGT). The learning objectives of the workshop are (a) to enhance interpretation of DICOM images through the use of 3D visualization, (b) to gain experience with interactive assessment of complex anatomical structures (c) to present current directions of open-source computer graphics applications in Radiology. This workshop takes place on Monday, December 1, 2008, between 1-2:30pm, at S401CD, McCormick Place, Chicago.