Announcements
- May 7, 2007 Dr. Hata was featured in a local news paper, the Boston Globe. Link to article archive.
- November 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. The methods will enable ablation therapy of moving organ by using novel motion tracking method.
- November 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.
- December 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.
- March 5, 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 Laboratory, Imperial College London, UK.
- April 9, 2008 SNR Laboratory sponsored a talk entitled "Haptics Enabled Robot-Assisted Active Catheter Insertion" by Jayender Jagadeesan, PhD, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, 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.
- March 31- Apr 11, 2008 Dr. Platel's -IGT group leader from Technical University Eindhoven- visit to SPL.
- March - June, 2008 Slicer IGT training for graduate students at SJTU, Shanghai, China (every Thursday 10 am - noon).
- May 2, 2008 Dr. Hata gave a talk at Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Michigan.
- June 16-17, 2008 Training Event in Germany.
- September 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.
- June 11, 2009 SNR members attended the AMIGO ground breaking celebration.
- Sep 4, 2009: Jay Jagadeesan was featured at Science Update Podcast at AAAS. In the interview, Jay talks about the robot-assisted lung tumor palpation he worked on at his former laboratory, University of Western Ontario, ON, Canada led by Dr. Patel.
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