2008 IGT Project Week

Introduction

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  National Center for Image Guided therapy

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  National Alliance for Medical Image Computing

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  Neuroimage Analysis Center

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  CIMIT

Dates: Monday, December 8th to Friday, December 12th

Location: SPL facility at 1249 Boylston Street, Boston MA

IGT Project Week is a hands-on event that will involve various scientific, clinical, and engineering activities that are part of building image-guided therapy systems. Please note that is not a week long session of lectures and/or slide presentations. Instead, active researchers in the field will gather for a week to get actual work done on projects that they have identified ahead of time. A fair amount of effort will be put into teleconferences in the month leading upto the event to ensure that every participant belongs to a project that makes sense to be pursued in such a collaborative setting. Depending on the needs of the projects, the hosts, NCIGT at Brigham and Women's Hospital, will reserve time at appropriate research imaging and therapy equipment.

About a month before the event, a teleconference will be held with interested participants to determine the scope of the work that they will collaboratively pursue during this week. The event itself will start with short presentation by each project team to allows all participants to be acquainted with others who are doing similar work. In the rest of the week, most of the time will be spent doing hands-on programming, imaging, algorithm design, phantom or animal experiments or other validation in small project teams. Given that this is the first stand-alone IGT event of this kind, we expect to have about 5-10 teams of size 3-4 each. To facilitate this work, a conference room will be setup with several tables, with internet and power access, to allow teams to either work on their own laptops. Based on the project requirements, times will also be reserved on the research imaging equipment and therapy equipment at Brigham and Women's Hospital. On the last day of the event, a closing presentation session will be held in which each project team will present a summary of what they accomplished during the week.

This event is modeled after the NA-MIC Project Week and its main goal is to foster a hand-on image-guided therapy systems community. The first event is being organized by NCIGT and several other NIH funded grants, and the outcome at this meeting will determine the format and frequency of future events. Unfortunately, no travel support is available from NCIGT for this event; it must be sponsored by their host institution/grant.

If you are interested in joining this event, please send an email to Tina Kapur: tkapur at bwh.harvard.edu

Agenda

Monday

• 1:30-3:30pm: Presentation of all Projects
• 3:30-5pm: Start Working

Tuesday

• 9-5: Work

Wednesday

• 9-5: Work

Thursday

• 9-5: Work

Friday

• 10am: Review of Progress
• 12pm: lunch and adjourn

Projects

This is a working list of projects for this week.

1. Fast Imaging Library (Scott Hoge, Bruno Madore, external?)
2. Nonrigid MR-ULS Registration for neurosurgery (Sandy Wells, Stephen Aylward, Tina Kapur, Matt Toews)
3. Nonrigid registration methods for tracking targets during Prostate MRgFUS (Nathan McDannold, Ben Schwartz?, Sandy Wells, Steve Haker, Nicu Archip)
4. Dynamic control of the MRI acquisition based on US-based signals. This would be to apply existing technologies developed for IGT (such as optical-based tracking of a biopsy or ablation probe). (Nathan McDannold, Ben Schwartz?, Ehud Schmidt?, Others?)
5. Analysis of dynamic contrast enhanced imaging for (Team TBD)
   1. Developing models of BBB disruption to optimize drug delivery;
   2. Mapping of tissue perfusion for modeling tissue parameters for treatment planning for MRgFUS;
   3. Distinguishing between residual tumor and the edge of the ablated region after MRgFUS.
6. RF Ablation System (Ziv Yaniv Georgetown, Noby Hata)
7. Volume Rendering for IGT using CUDA (Xenios Papademeteris, Noby Hata)
8. Realtime Tractography for Neurosurgery? (Noby Hata, Haiying Liu, Alex Golby?, Isaiah Norton?)
9. Prostate Robotics (Junichi Tokuda, Noby Hata, ?)

Confirmed Attendees

1. Kevin Cleary, Georgetown
2. Ziv Yaniv, Georgetown
3. Stephen Aylward, Kitware
4. Luis Ibanez, Kitware
5. Andinet Enquobahrie, Kitware
6. Xenios Papademetris, Yale
7. Sandy Wells, BWH
8. Tina Kapur, BWH
9. Noby Hata, BWH
10. Steve Pieper, BWH
11. Katie Hayes, BWH
12. Scott Hoge, BWH
13. Nathan McDannold, BWH
14. Ron Kikinis, BWH
15. Clare Tempany, BWH
16. Ferenc Jolesz, BWH
17. Junichi Tokuda, BWH
18. Haiying Liu, BWH
19. Gabor Fichtinger, Queens (TBD)
20. Greg Fischer, WPI
21. Clif Burdette, AcousticMed Systems
22. Jack Blevins, AcousticMed Systems
23. Iulian Iordachita, JHU
24. Nathanael Kuo, JHU (TBD)
25. Sam Song, JHU

Tentative Attendees

1. Mike Miga, Vanderbilt
2. Bob Kraft, Wake Forest Univ