IGT:March 2008 IGT Workshop

Clinical Image-Guided Therapy: Opportunities and Needs. Please note that all information on this page is preliminary. It will be finalized by December 31, 2007, when it will be circulated widely. Tkapur 12:56, 4 December 2007 (EST)

Dates. Avenue. Registration

Dates: March 10-11, 2008

Avenue: The Rockville Hilton, 1750 Rockville Pike, Rockville, Maryland 20852. Phone number: +1 (301) 468-1100. Room rates for the meeting are US $TBD/night (+ applicable taxes) for reservations made prior to TBD using the group code TBD. After that date, rates revert to the regular ($TBD+/nt) and we are unable to get the hotel to release additional rooms at the lower rate.

Registration: Registration Fee and Method to be announced.

Goal

This “Clinical Image-Guided Therapy: Opportunities and Needs” workshop is being hosted by the National Cancer Institute (NCI), National Center for Research Resources (NCRR), National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB), and the National Center for Image-Guided Therapy (NCIGT) at the Harvard School of Medicine.

This workshop will be composed of eight scientific sessions in areas of neuro-, prostate, and body interventions, focused ultrasound, and targeted drug-delivery, as well as imaging, computation, and visualization technologies in support of image-guided therapies (IGT). There will also be three parallel hands-on breakout sessions focused on various applications of the Slicer visualization modules. We expect attendance by the members of the academia, industry, and federal agencies interested in the field of image-guided interventions.

The overall goal of this workshop is to asses the current needs and opportunities in the field of image-guided interventions and NCIGT’s role as a national center in relation to the greater IGT community. In order to best achieve this goal it is important for all participants to attend both days of the workshop.

Program Committee

• Ferenc Jolesz, M.D., Brigham and Women's Hospital, is the Workshop Chair. The program committee includes:
• Clare Tempany, M.D., Brigham and Women's Hospital
• Ron Kikinis, M.D., Brigham and Women's Hospital
• Keyvan Farahani, Ph.D., NIH
• John Haller, Ph.D., NIH
• Abraham Levy, Ph.D, NIH

Agenda

Monday, March 10, 2008

• Sessions: 9am-5pm

Tuesday, March 11, 2008

• 8:00am: Continental Breakfast
• 8:15-10:00am: Sessions
• 10: coffee break
• 10:30-noon: sessions
• noon-1pm: lunch
• 1-3pm: sessions
• 3pm: adjourn

Contact

For further information about the program please contact: TBD