Announcements
- (May 7, 2007) Dr. Hata was featured in a local new paper, Boston Globe (link to paper archive).
- (Nov. 16, 2007) Our paper entitled "A device guidance method for organ motion compensation in MRI-guided therapy" is featured in Focused Ultrasound Surgery Foundation's website (link). The methods will enable ablation therapy of moving organ by using novel motion tracking method.
- (Nov.. 28, 2007) Dr. Hata, the director of SNR laboratory, gave presentation at GEYMS Seminar 2007 in Chicago, and gave his perspective on future of Image Guided Therapy. Japanese page introducing his talk as well as Drs. Ferenc Jolesz and Hiroto Hatabu is here.
- (Dec. 26, 2007) Dr. Hata, the director of SNR laboratory, was one of the organizer to host Slicer IGT Programming event (Dec. 11-13, 2007, Boston, MA) . Visit the page of the event for exciting outcomes from the event. (Event page)
- (March 5th, 2008) SNR Laboratory sponsored a talk entitled "Mechatronic systems compatible with magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) promise interventional robots guided by real-time MRI as well as efficient tools for clinical diagnosis in internal medicine" by Haytham Elhawary from the Mechatronics in Medicine Lab, Imperial College London, UK.
- (Apr 9th, 2008) SNR Laboratory sponsored a talk entitled "Haptics Enabled Robot-Assisted Active Catheter Insertion" by Jayender Jagadeesan, PhD, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering,The University of Western Ontario, London, Canada.
- (March 19, 2008) Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology (HST), Lecture on Interventional MRI by Hata, Kikinis, HST 563 [1]
- (March 31- Apr 11, 2008) Dr. Platel's, IGT grp leader from Technical University Eindhoven, to SPL
- (March - June, 2008) Slicer IGT training for graduate students at SJTU, Shanghai, China (every Thursday 10 am - noon) [2]
- (May 2, 2008) Dr. Hata gave a talk at Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Michigan [3]
- (June 16-17, 2008) Training Event in Germany [4]
- (Sep 29, 2008) Dr. Yuichiro Hayashi of Nagoya University arrived today. He will stay in SNR for three weeks and integrate his original volume rendering method in Slicer.