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: MRI-compatible manipulator with remote-center-of-motion control

Left: Close-up of the manipulator consisting of three-degrees-of-freedom (DOF) active stage in the lower part of the manipulator and two-DOF needle holder with Y-shaped optical tracking sensor on the upper part. Right: The manipulator placed in an 0.5 Tesla open-configuration MRI scanner.

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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.