Collaboration:Harvard CTSC

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.

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Key Personnel

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

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Upcoming Events

Weekly Teleconference Calls

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

• February 08, 2010 Face-to-face: Countway, Harvard Catalyst Conference Room, 5th floor
• February 22, 2010

Education

• Imaging Basics for Clinical Research Staff

Course overview: The MGH Clinical Research Program and the Harvard Catalyst are sponsoring this three lecture series designed to introduce clinical research coordinators, research nurses and study staff to the basics of medical imaging and the principles of safe imaging practice. Attendees may choose to attend all 3 sessions or can attend whichever sessions are pertinent to their learning needs. Please note you must register for each session individually.

1. Risks and benefits of imaging

Wednesday, February 16, 1:00-2:30 pm, Simches 3.120
Objectives:
- Understand the benefits of different imaging modalities (CT, MRI, PET, US).
- Learn the risks of imaging contrast agents.
- Understand the potential risks of ionizing radiation.

2. MRI safety: guidelines for safe MRI practice

Thursday, March 3, 2:00-3:30 pm, Simches 3.120
Objectives:
- Learn the potential risks in the MRI environment.
- Learn the guidelines for safe MRI practice through real situation examples.
- Provide tools to answer patients/subjects questions about MRI procedures.

3. Radiation safety and radiation dose reduction

Wednesday, March 16, 2:00-3:30 pm, Simches 3.120
Objectives:
- Learn in the context of imaging the risks posed by different types of radiation emissions and radiation-emitting products.
- Understand how to support the benefits of medical imaging while minimizing the risks.
- Understand the radiation safety protocol screening forms and model consent risk statements.

Registration is required in order to attend; seats are limited. For more information, or to register, contact Valerie Humblet

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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.

• October 14, 2010
• June 15, 2010
• April 21, 2010

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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.

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Medical Imaging Informatics and Data Management

Use Cases and Development of Goals

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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.

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Past Events

2011 t-con

• January 25, 2010
• January 11, 2011 Face-to-face,

2010

• t-con 2010
• RSNA 2010

2009

• t-con, meetings and presentations 2009
• Progress Report Y2

2008

• t-con and meetings 2008

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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

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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

• CTSA Imaging Working Group wiki

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Additional Resources

	Biomedical Informatics Research Network BIRN	BIRN Imaging Resources	BIRN Training Resources
	National Alliance for Medical Image Computing NA-MIC	NA-MIC Resources	NA-MIC Training Resources
	Neuroimage Analysis Center NAC	Resources	Training Resources

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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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