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: Multimodality Non-rigid Image Registration for Planning, Targeting and Monitoring during CT-guided Percutaneous Liver Tumor Cryoablation

a: Preprocedure, contrast-enhanced axial magnetic resonance (MR) image obtained with patient in supine position shows tumor (arrow) as hypointense region. b: Intraprocedure computed tomographic (CT) image for interventional planning obtained with the patient in a left posterior oblique position. c: Registered and fused image shows liver tumor (arrow) from registered MR image overlaid on planning CT image. d: Targeting CT image shows cryoablation applicators (arrows) in position, overlaid with segmented tumor from the registered MR image. e: CT image shows the ice ball as hypointense area around the tumor (white arrows) overlaid with segmented tumor from registered MR image. f: Three-dimensional representation of liver, tumor, ice ball, and cryoablation applicators to evaluate tumor coverage and margins.

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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.