IGT:March 2008 IGT Workshop

Dates. Avenue. Registration

Dates: March 10-11, 2008

Venue: The Rockville Hilton, 1750 Rockville Pike, Rockville, Maryland 20852. Phone number: +1 (301) 468-1100. Room rates for the meeting are US $TBD/night (+ applicable taxes) for reservations made prior to TBD using the group code TBD. After that date, rates revert to the regular ($TBD+/nt) and we are unable to get the hotel to release additional rooms at the lower rate.

Registration: Registration Fee and Method to be announced.

Goal

On behalf of the National Cancer Institute (NCI), National Center for Research Resources (NCRR), National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB), and the National Center for Image-Guided Therapy (NCIGT) at the Brigham & Women’s Hospital, it is our pleasure to announce an upcoming workshop on “Clinical Image-Guided Therapy: Opportunities and Needs” and invite you to attend and participate in the workshop.

This workshop will be held on March 10-11, 2008 at the Rockville Hilton in Rockville, Maryland and will be composed of scientific sessions in areas of neuro-, prostate, and body interventions, focused ultrasound, and targeted drug-delivery, as well as imaging, computation and visualization technologies in support of image-guided therapies (IGT). There will also be parallel hands-on breakout sessions focused on various applications of the Slicer visualization modules. In addition, the organizers would like to invite submission of abstracts on clinical IGT for poster presentations at the meeting. Scientific abstracts may be submitted for the poster session of this workshop. Deadline for submission of abstracts is January 18, 2008, with further details available below.

We expect attendance by the members of the academia, industry, and federal agencies interested in the field of image-guided interventions.

The overall goal of this workshop is to asses the current needs and opportunities in the field of image-guided interventions and NCIGT’s role as a national center in relation to the greater IGT community. In order to best achieve this goal it is important for all participants to attend both days of the workshop. The preliminary program for the workshop is currently available below and further details on the program and the logistics will be available in January.

Program Contacts:

Keyvan Farahani, PhD

Acting Chief

Image-Guided Interventions Branch

Cancer Imaging Program

National Cancer Institute

Email: Farahani@nih.gov

Clare Tempany, MD

Professor of Radiology

Harvard Medical School

Brigham & Women's Hospital

Email: ctempany@bwh.harvard.edu

Call for Poster Abstracts

Poster Sessions

There will be a working lunch poster session during both days of the workshop and abstract submissions will be considered for exhibits during the poster sessions. Prospective attendees are encouraged to submit abstracts describing their research in areas related to clinical image-guided therapy for consideration of exhibition in the Poster Sessions of the workshop.

Abstract Format, Submission and Acceptance

Authors should organize the abstract (250 words or less) in four sections: Purpose, Methods, Results, and Conclusions, identified by bold headers. Submissions may be made by sending your abstract to posters@ncigt.org. Deadline for submission of abstracts is 5 pm EST January 24, 2008. All submissions will be reviewed by the Scientific Committee of the workshop for scientific merit and program relevance. Principal authors will be notified of the result of the abstract review by Feb 2, 2008. Guidelines for the poster format will be provided at the same time.

Program Committee

• Ferenc Jolesz, M.D., Brigham and Women's Hospital
• Clare Tempany, M.D., Brigham and Women's Hospital
• Ron Kikinis, M.D., Brigham and Women's Hospital
• Keyvan Farahani, PhD, National Cancer Institute, NIH
• Abraham Levy, PhD, National Center for Research Resources, NIH
• John Haller, PhD, National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering, NIH

Program Highlights

Please note that not all speakers have been confirmed at this time.

Monday, March 10

• Session 1: Prostate
  • Peter Choykee, MD (NIH)
  • Clare Tempany, MD (NCIGT/BWH)
  • Cynthia Menard, MD (Toronto)
  • Speaker Panel Discussion
• Session 2: Body
  • Gerald Dodd, III, MD (U Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio)
  • Kemal Tuncali, MD (NCIGT/BWH)
  • Dennis Fowler, PhD (Columbia)
  • Mehrand Armand, PhD (Johns Hopkins)
  • Speaker Panel Discussion
• Session 3: Neurosurgery
  • Walter Hall, MD, PhD (U Minnesota)
  • Lauren O'Donnell, PhD (NCIGT/BWH)
  • Xenophon Papademetris, PhD (Yale)
  • Mathew Gounis, PhD (UMASS, Worcester)
  • Speaker Panel Discussion

Break

• Session 4: Computation and Visualization
  • George Chen, PhD (MGH)
  • Sandy Wells, PhD (NCIGT/BWH)
  • Michael Miga, PhD (Vanderbilt)
  • George Stetten, PhD (U Pittsburgh)
  • Noby Hata, PhD (NCIGT/BWH)
  • Robert Cormack, PhD (BWH)
  • Speaker Panel Discussion
• Breakout Sessions:
  • DTI/fMRI Acquisition and Visualization for Neurosurgery: Steve Whalen, Lauren O'Donnell
  • Slicer Prostate Module: Steve Haker, Noby Hata
  • Liver Visualization: Nicu Archip, Paul Morrison

Tuesday, March 11

• Session 5: Focused Ultrasound
  • Kullervo Hynynen, PhD (U Toronto)
  • Greg Clement, PhD (BWH)
  • Patrick Wolf, PhD (Duke)
  • Guillerno Tearney, PhD (MGH)
  • Speaker Panel Discussion

Break

• Session 6: Imaging
  • John Pauly, PhD (Stanford)
  • Larry Panych, PhD (NCIGT/BWH)
  • Erez Nevo, MD, PhD (Robin Medical Inc.)
  • Ehud Schmidt, PhD
  • Speaker Panel Discussion
• Session 7: Targeted Drug and Cell Delivery
  • Chrit Moonen, PhD (U Bordeaux, France)
  • Zaver Bhujwalla, PhD (Johns Hopkins)
  • Nathan McDannold, PhD (NCIGT/BWH)
  • Alexander L Klibanov, PhD (U Virginia): ACCEPTED
  • Jeff Bulte, PhD (Johns Hopkins)
  • Speaker Panel Discussion

Call for Poster Abstracts

Poster Sessions

There will be a working lunch poster session during both days of the workshop and abstract submissions will be considered for exhibits during the poster sessions. Prospective attendees are encouraged to submit abstracts describing their research in areas related to clinical image-guided therapy for consideration of exhibition in the Poster Sessions of the workshop.

Abstract Format, Submission and Acceptance

Authors should organize the abstract (250 words or less) in four sections: Purpose, Methods, Results, and Conclusions, identified by bold headers. Submissions may be made by sending your abstract to posters2008@ncigt.org. Deadline for submission of abstracts is 5 pm EST January 24, 2008. All submissions will be reviewed by the Scientific Committee of the workshop for scientific merit and program relevance. Principal authors will be notified of the result of the abstract review by Feb 2, 2008. Guidelines for the poster format will be provided at the same time.