2008 IGT Project Week

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Introduction

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

Location: SPL facility at 1249 Boylston Street, Boston MA (Directions) (See here for information about area hotels.)

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 phone calls between the hosts and the participants 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.

A week before the event, a teleconference will be held with confirmed participants to review 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

Please note that Monday's session will be held at The Ledge Building located at One Brigham Circle Room BC-4-004 F

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

Tuesday

Please note that the rest of the week will be held at the 2nd floor conference room, 1249 Boylston Street.

  • 9am: Breakfast
  • 10am-noon: Non-rigid Registration Breakout session
  • noon: lunch
  • 1-5pm: Work
  • 3pm: coffee

Wednesday

  • 9am: Breakfast
  • 9am-noon: Work
  • noon: lunch
  • 1pm: Journal Club Talk: James Balter, University of Michigan: "Finding the truth: Surrogates and Sampling for Setup and monitoring of treatment"
  • 2-5pm: Work
  • 3pm: coffee

Thursday

  • 9am: Breakfast
  • 10am-noon: Tissue Characterization Breakout Session
  • 9am-noon: Work
  • noon: lunch
  • 1-5pm: Work
  • 3pm: coffee

Friday

  • 9am: Breakfast
  • 10am: Review of Progress
  • 12pm: adjourn

Projects

This is a working list of projects for this week.

  1. Fast Imaging Library (Scott Hoge,Bob Kraft)
  2. Nonrigid MR-ULS Registration Algorithms development for neurosurgery (Sandy Wells, Stephen Aylward, Tina Kapur, Matt Toews, Louis Collins)
  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)
  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, Clif Burdette, Jack Blevins, Clare Tempany)
  10. Work-flow based Slicer Module for IGT application (Andinet Enquobahrie, Noby Hata)
  11. Tissue Characterization (Sharon Peled, and others?)

Confirmed Attendees

  1. Ziv Yaniv, Georgetown - Monday 11:00pm-Wednesday 3pm
  2. Andinet Enquobahrie, Kitware- Monday 1:30pm-Friday noon
  3. Michel Audette - Monday 1:30pm-Friday noon
  4. Xenios Papademetris, Yale- Monday 1:30pm-Tuesday 5pm.
  5. John Onofrey, Yale-Monday 1:30pm-Tuesday 5pm
  6. Sandy Wells, BWH- Monday 1:30pm-Friday noon
  7. Louis Collins, MNI- Tuesday 9am -Wednesday 5pm
  8. Tina Kapur, BWH - Monday 1:30pm-Friday noon
  9. Matt Towes, BWH - Monday 1:30pm-Friday noon
  10. Noby Hata, BWH - Monday 1:30pm-Friday noon
  11. Steve Pieper, BWH - Monday 1:30pm-Friday noon
  12. Katie Hayes, BWH - Monday 1:30pm-Friday noon
  13. Scott Hoge, BWH - Monday 1:30pm-Friday noon
  14. Nathan McDannold, BWH - Tuesday 9am -Friday noon
  15. Ben Schwartz, BWH - Tuesday 9am -Friday noon
  16. Ron Kikinis, BWH- Monday 1:30pm-Friday noon
  17. Clare Tempany, BWH- Monday 1:30pm-3:30pm, Friday 10am-noon
  18. Ferenc Jolesz, BWH- Monday 1:30pm-3:30pm, Friday 10am-noon
  19. Junichi Tokuda, BWH - Monday 1:30pm-Friday noon
  20. Haiying Liu, BWH- Monday 1:30pm-Friday noon
  21. Greg Fischer, WPI- Monday 1:30pm-Friday noon
  22. Clif Burdette, AcousticMed Systems- Monday 1:30pm-Friday noon
  23. Jack Blevins, AcousticMed Systems- Monday 1:30pm-Friday noon
  24. Iulian Iordachita, JHU- Monday 1:30pm-Friday noon
  25. Sam Song, JHU- Monday 1:30pm-Friday noon
  26. Andriy Fedorov, BWH/W&M- Monday 1:30pm-Friday noon
  27. Haytham Elhawary, BWH- Monday 1:30pm-Friday noon
  28. Bob Kraft, Wake Forest Univ- Monday 1:30pm-Friday noon
  29. James Balter, U Michigan- Wednesday 9am-Thursday 5pm
  30. Paul Morrison, BWH - Monday 1:30pm-Friday noon