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Harvard Catalyst | The Harvard Clinical and Translational Science Center, Imaging Consortium Workspace

Welcome! These wiki pages are meant to encourage quick and efficient communication among the Harvard Catalyst Imaging Consortium and the broader Harvard Catalyst community. We welcome interested visitors from other CTSC and the medical imaging community in general. If you are interested in an introduction to the Harvard Clinical and Translational Science Center, please go to our main web page: Harvard Catalyst.
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Mission statement

The Imaging Consortium:

  • provides expert consultation to assist clinical and translational investigators in the planning and design of medical imaging research.
  • educates about both general and current state of the art medical imaging and image processing capabilities. The courses are designed to better acquaint clinicians and scientists with the tools and technologies available in this important field.
  • guides the CTSC participants about available resources in the use of imaging as part of clinical translational research.
  • develops, through the Harvard Catalyst Medical Imaging Informatics Bench to Bedside Initiative (mi2b2) and cross-institutional harmonization efforts, medical imaging informatics to support the clinical and translational research community and enable current and future large-scale medical image data exploration.



Key Personnel

Sites Imaging Consortium Personnel
MGH.png Bruce Rosen, Director
Randy Gollub, Co-Director
Gordon J. Harris, Consultant
William Hanlon, Consultant
BIDMC.png Robert Lenkinski, Consultant
Ivan Pedrosa, Consultant
BWH.png Clare Tempany, Consultant
Ron Kikinis, Consultant
Charles Guttmann, Consultant
Todd Perlstein, Consultant
Gordon Williams, PI for CTSC Translational Technologies
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Simon Warfield, Consultant
DFCI.png Annick D. Van den Abbeele,Consultant
Jeffrey Yap, Consultant and Director of Education
Catalyst logo final.jpg Valerie Humblet, Medical Imaging Liaison
Yong Gao, Imaging Informatics Architect



Upcoming Events

Bi-Weekly Meetings

Tuesday (9:00- 10:00 AM), call: 1-866-890-3820

Education

  • fMRI lecture series: one-hour lectures designed to highlight cutting edge clinical research in the field of fMRI. Topics will cover image acquisition, image processing and image management.
    • Brigham and Women's Hospital, location: tbd, time: tbd
    • BIDMC, location: tbd, time: tbd
    • MIT, location: tbd, time: tbd
    • Children's Hospital, location: tbd, time: tbd
    • Harvard University, location: tbd, time: tbd
    • MGH, location: tbd, time: tbd
    • McLean, location: tbd, time: tbd
  • Intensive training in fMRI: This full-day course focuses on the principles and practices of fMRI in clinical research
    • LMA, location: tbd, time: tbd
    • MGH, location: tbd, time: tbd
  • Imaging of Tumor Angiogenesis: This full-day course summarizes the current status of tumor angiogenesis imaging with SPECT, PET, molecular MRI, targeted ultrasound, and optical techniques
    • HMS, location: tbd, time tbd

97th Annual Meeting of the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA 2011), Chicago IL

The Imaging Consortium is offering a several educational sessions at RSNA 2011, for more information about the meeting and to register: RSNA 2011


The Lifecycle of an Imaging Biomarker: From Validation to Dissemination course is offered by the Harvard Catalyst Clinical Translational Science Award (CTSA) Imaging Program in collaboration with the UT Southwestern CTSA Program

Learning Objectives

  • to present current directions of quantitative imaging as a biomarker in clinical trials.
  • to review the steps involved in the integration of an imaging biomarker into a multi-center clinical trial (protocol development, scanner qualification, standardization of image acquisition, data management, quality assurance, central review and analysis, validation, dissemination)
  • to discuss examples of quantitative imaging best practice in PET/CT, MRI and pediatric imaging.

Instructors

  • Author/Presenter: Jeffrey Yap, PhD
  • Author/Presenter: Robert Lenkinski, PhD
  • Author/Presenter: Simon Warfield, PhD

Logistics

  • Wednesday, 11/30, 2011
  • Time: 4:30pm-6:00pm
  • Location: McCormick Place, Chicago, Illinois


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Multicenter Clinical Trial working group

The objective of this group is the establishment of an infrastructure to support multi-center imaging projects.



Harvard Catalyst Medical Imaging Informatics mi2b2 initiative

On September 24, 2009, Harvard Catalyst was awarded an ARRA administrative supplement to enable clinical imaging data to be used for secondary research purposes.



Medical Imaging Informatics and Data Management

Use Cases and Development of Goals



MRI Compatible Physiological Monitoring System

Here you can find Information for users about the specifications of a monitoring system supported by Harvard Catalyst. There is also information about the LabChart software.



Past Events

2011 meetings

2010

2009

2008



JIRA system

We use JIRA to monitor our consultation requests. Here are some information for our consultants: links to the user guide, screenshots and the website



External imaging core collaborative efforts

The Harvard Catalyst Imaging Consortium integrates with national clinical and translational efforts through the CTSA Imaging Working Group and Steering Committee



Additional Resources

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BIRN
BIRN Imaging Resources BIRN Training Resources
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NA-MIC
NA-MIC Resources NA-MIC Training Resources
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Resources Training Resources



The Harvard CTSC Imaging Consortium would like to thank its gracious host NA-MIC for providing communication tools to facilitate the rapid deployment of expertise in medical imaging acquisition, analysis and visualization to clinical translational investigators.


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