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Our laboratory is located on the main campus of Brigham and Women’s Hospital having access to a wide variety of state-of-the-art clinical facilities, including the Advanced Multimodality Image Guided Operation (AMIGO) suite, a 5,700-square-foot operating room equipped with 3-Tesla MRI and PET/CT scanners. The proximity to those facilities allows us to work closely with clinical staff in the clinical environment to test new software and devices and obtain feedback frequently.

Getting Involved

There are several ways to get involved in our research activities. If you are seeking a paid position, please check out our News for latest job postings.

Collaborations

We welcome collaborations with academic and industrial partners. We have a long history of successful collaborations with academic and industrial partners in developing and clinically translating software and hardware for image-guided and robot-assisted interventions. Our laboratory is specialized in adapting new computational and robotic technologies to clinical applications, and testing in the clinical environment under an IRB-approved protocol. The National Center for Image Guided Therapy offers a unique translational research environment for translational research. Examples of our collaborations include:

• Pre-clinical and clinical evaluation of a robotic system for MRI-guided breast biopsy.
• Development of a robotic system for prostate interventions.
• Integration of a real-time MRI-guided intervention with a needle guidance system.
• Clinical evaluation of automatic image registration system for image-guided liver tumor ablation.

Training/Visiting (Self-funded)

We offer training and visiting opportunities for students and researchers who are interested in image-guided and robot-assisted interventions. We have a unique translational research environment where a multidisciplinary team of clinicians, imaging physicists, computer scientists, technologists, and nurses collaborate in a state-of-the-art facility. Our laboratory is located on the main hospital campus and has easy access to the clinical environment, where we evaluate our software and/or devices regularly.

The Office for Global Professionals and Scholars (GPS) at Mass General Brigham provides visa support for international students and researchers. Please contact GPS for more information.

Fellowship/Research Assistant

Fellowship and research assistant positions are excellent opportunities for those already pursuing or starting a biomedical engineering career. We seek an individual who is passionate about medical imaging and/or robotics for image-guided therapy. The successful candidate will be responsible for developing devices and software for image-guided robot-assisted interventions (e.g., biopsy and ablation) and testing them. The Department of Radiology and the National Center for Image Guided Therapy offer a unique translational research environment where a multidisciplinary team of clinicians, imaging physicists, computer scientists, technologists, and nurses collaborate in a state-of-the-art facility. Our laboratory is located on the main hospital campus and has easy access to the clinical environment, where we evaluate our software and/or devices regularly.

Please note that availability of paid positions depends on our funding situation. Our institution may offer visa support depending on the job title and the candidate’s qualifications. For more information about visa support, please contact The Office for Global Professionals and Scholars (GPS).

Sponsors

Our projects are primarily funded by the National Institutes of Health, including:

• R01EB020667: “OpenIGTLink: a network communication interface for closed-loop image-guided interventions” (MPI: Tokuda, Krieger, Fuge, Leonard)
• R01CA235134: “Adaptive Percutaneous Prostate Interventions using Sensorized Needle” (MPI: Tokuda, Hata, Iordachita)
• 1R01EB034359: Improved arrhythmia ablation via MR-guided robotic catheterization and multimodal clinician feedback (MPI: Chen, Kolandaivelu, Tokuda, Schmidt)
• 1R01EB036015: Robot-assisted catheter placement with novel shape-sensing stylet to facilitate adaptive image guided pelvic brachytherapy (MPI: Tokuda, Cormack, Iordachita)
• P41EB028741: “Advanced Technologies - National Center for Image Guided Therapy (AT-NCIGT)” (PI: Clare Tempany)
• R01EB030539: “Physician Assistance Technology in Image-guided Robotic Intervention of Prostate” (PI: Hata, Fischer)

We also received grant and in-kind support from Siemens Healthineers to integrate our software and robotics technologies with clinical MRI systems.