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The 2012 BMC Party

Dear All,

The annual BMC party was a blast, as always. This year we are grateful to Parvin and Keyvan for hosting the gang. Our graces were beautiful. (We, boys, were also above average, I suppose.) See more pictures here.

It was a great pleasure to have the team together - it always makes me a bit sentimental, though, he-he.

Let's do it again next year!

--Gabor

 

Dr. Hans Ringertz visited the PerkLab

The Perk lab had a distinguished visitor on October 25, Dr. Hans Ringertz from the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm. Dr. Ringertz, first and foremost, is a radiologist and eminent interventionalist. Until his formal retirement a few years ago, he was a member of the Nobel Prize Committee in medicine and physiology for 22 years and he also headed the committee.

Intraoperative registration of ultrasound and fluoroscopy project received Phase II funding from NSERC

The PerkLab has been awarded Phase II funding under the NSERC (Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada) Idea to Innovation program for the project "Intraoperative Registration of Ultrasound and Fluoroscopy (iRUF)". Phase II projects are the technology enhancement phase of product development.

Paweena U-Thainual (Sue Sue) received a poster award at CARS 2012

The poster, of which Sue Sue was the second author, received Second Place Poster Award at CARS 2012: J. Fritz, P. U-Thainual, I. Iordachita, J. Carrino, A. Flammang, T. Ungi, G. Fichtinger, Augmented reality visualization using image-overlay for MR-guided interventions: performance assessment of paravertebral sympathetic perineural injections in cadavers at 1.5 tesla.

Postdoctoral positions

The Percutaneous Surgery Lab (Perk Lab) is looking for postdoctoral researchers to participate in development of image-guided intervention and training techniques and systems. The incumbent will have excellent collaborative opportunities with a diverse group of multidisciplinary researchers and clinical collaborators.

We look for candidates with background in one or more of the following domains: computer vision, medical image-computing, computer-assisted interventions, medical robotics. 

Tamas Ungi receives Honorable Mention for the School of Computing Distinguished Service Award

Tamas Ungi, MD, PhD, senior researcher in the Perk Lab received Honorable Mention for the School of Computing Distinguished Service Award. 

Although as of yet he does not hold a faculty appointment, Tamas has de facto mentored numerous undergraduate and graduate students. In this role, he has been vitally important to the Biomedical Computing Group. The quality of the mentorship Tamas provides is demonstrated the most tangibly in the volume and prestige of peer-reviewed publications authored and co-authored by his trainees.

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