Alexandra (Sacha) Pompeu-Robinson receives ACM-W Scholarship Award

Matthew Holden receives NSERC-CREATE Training Program Grant in Bone and Joint Health Technologies

Matthew's application to the NSERC CREATE Training Program in Bone and Joint Health Technologies was successful. He has been selected to participate in the program as an HMRC‐CREATE research intern.

Laura Bartha receives NSERC-CREATE Training Program Grant in Bone and Joint Health Technologies

fully‐funded HMRC‐CREATE master’s trainee.

Laura's application to the NSERC CREATE Training Program in Bone and Joint Health Technologies was successful. She has been selected to participate in the program as a fully‐funded HMRC‐CREATE master’s trainee.

NSERC Discovery Grant for robotic needle steering has been awarded to the Perk Lab

NSERC Discovery Grant has been awarded to the Perk Lab, for robotic needle steering in soft tissues. The duration of the grant is for 5 years.

CCO infrastructure supplement grant has been awarded to the Perk Lab

One-time Infrastructure Supplement for Cancer Care Ontario Research Chairs has been awarded to the Perk Lab. The award will be applied toward open source system development for image-guided robotic interventions.

Funding awarded for forming CCO Applied Cancer Research Unit

The PerkLab received significant support from Cancer Care Ontario from their Applied Cancer Research Unit program. The funding is for setting up a team for System Prototyping in Image-Guided Robotic Percutaneous Intervention, which will develop reusable and customizable software infrastructures to assist clinical translation of experimental diagnostic and therapeutic approaches. The support is for 5 years.

Tamas Ungi received Poster Award at the 9th Imaging Network Ontario Symposium in Toronto

Tamas Ungi received a 3rd Place Poster Award at the 9th Imaging Network Ontario Symposium in Toronto. His paper was titled "Augmented reality training to improve needle-based percutaneous interventions".

Mohammad Peikari is award finalist at SPIE

Mohammad Peikari is finalist at the SPIE Medical Imaging 2011 Conference Best Student Paper contest. See more details at the conference website.

Laura Bartha is a Finalist in the CRA's Outstanding Undergraduate Researcher Award competition

Our Laura Bartha has been selected as a Finalist in the Computing Research Association's Outstanding Undergraduate Researcher Award competition for 2011. Laura's win is all the more impressive when one notes that the top 17 award recipients come from Princeton, Harvard, Rice, Tufts, Virginia Tech, Yale, Queen's, Vanderbilt, Rochester, Minnesota, Texas A&M, William and Mary, Berkeley, San Diego, and Brown.

Another milestone to the Perk Lab - Prostate biopsy using APT system with 3D Slicer

Yesterday morning our 56th patient procedure with the APT system we successfully conducted. This was the first APT case to employ navigation with 3D Slicer and Andras Lasso's ProstateNav module. The software worked flawlessly, and made it easy to detect some patient motion that occurred during the procedure. Two injections and four biopsies were obtained. This was the 3rd patient at Johns Hopkins Hospital in collaboration with Katarzyna Macura M.D. Congratulations to Andras Lasso on his excellent work!

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