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=Image Guided Therapy Research Assocaite=

**Research Associate/Fellow
**at Surgical Navigation and Robotics Laboratory (www.snrlab.org)
**Image Guided Therapy Program,
**Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School

*Reporting to
**Nobuhiko Hata, PhD, Associate Professor of Radiology

==Objective==
An research associate position is available at Surgical Navigation and Robotics Laboratory at Brigham and Women's Hospital. We are seeking highly motivated, self-starter with ability to work with clinicians, other scientists and engineers cooperatively.

==Duties and Responsibilities==
#Develop innovative image-guided therapy systems
#Identify problems in the current clinical practice with clinical collaborators
#Propose solutions to the clinical collaborators and discuss
#Actively participate the laboratory meetings and seminars.
#'''Clinically validate the image-guided therapy systems'''
#Dissemination including software packaging, documentation and teaching
#Report to the PI

==Skills and Specifications==
#Excellent technical, analytical problem-solving skill
#Software development skills and experiences including
#Software development experience in C++ and one additional scripting language (e.g. Python) on UNIX or Windows
#Skill to debug a program using debugger tools (GDB or Microsoft Visual Studio)
#Experience of software development using toolkit libraries e.g. VTK, ITK, Qt
#Linux system administration experience is preferable
#Knowledge of socket and pthread
#Basics of linear algebra
#Basics of image processing
#Basics of medical imaging (basic principle of CT/MRI/Ultrasound)
#Experience in Slicer (www.slicer.org) programming is a plus.

==Education and Qualifications==
#Doctoral degree in either Computer Science, Mechanical Engineering or Electric Engineering

==Initial assignment==
*Surgical Navigation for MRI-guided therapy
*Surgical Navigation for cranio-facial surgery
*Neurosurgery navigation

==Compensation, benefit, employment condition==
**Per the hospital post-doctoral policy
**http://www.brighamandwomens.org/research/OPRC/Benefits_And_Policies.aspx

==Duration==
#One year. Subject to renewal based on funding availability, and annual review.
#Start day (by taking into account US visa petition process) is part of consideration in selecting candidates due to obligatory time requirement to the agencies funding the position.

==Applicants should submit==
*A curriculum vitae with bibliography
* Copies of more than two recent publications
* Contact information for three individuals serving and references