Surgical Navigation and Robotics Laboratory

A part of Image-Guided Therapy Program
Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School

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Featured Image: MR-guided prostate interventions

The 3D Slicer software platform used for MRI-guided biopsy. The 3D Slicer provides guidance and navigation during MRI-guided biopsy, allowing for multiplanar views of image volumes, target selection, and control of the MR scanner imaging plane. T2W images obtained in the axial plane are shown. The control panel is used for slice selection to ensure that the real-time planar imaging obtained during needle insertion contains the desired target. On the left, a robotic assistant system for prostate intervention in a 3T closed-bore MRI scanner. The robot is placed between the patient’s legs and the MRI compatible mechanism. The pneumatic actuator ensures no interference to MR images.

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Surgical Navigation and Robotics Laboratory focuses on development of novel computer and engineering methods for image-guided therapy.

Our unique approach, where imaging, computing and robotics are integrated into one unit to enhance the capability of image-guided therapy, aims to advance a minimally invasive therapy and ultimately develop new treatment methods.

Being part of a clinical research program in a Harvard affiliated hospital, we stress actual clinical applications of the developed methods. We do science, engineering, and application. The laboratory is under the direction of Dr. Nobuhiko Hata.