Laboratory for Percutaneous Surgery
Tamas Ungi received MD degree in 2006 and PhD degree in Radiology in 2011 from the University of Szeged, Hungary. He is currently an Adjunct Assistant Professor and Senior Research Scientist at the School of Computing and at the Department of Surgery at Queen's University in Canada. He joined the Laboratory for Percutaneous Surgery (Perk Lab) in 2009, where he is the Associate Director of Clinical Translations. His research interests are image-guided medical interventions, and interventional skills education. He is a primary contributor to the SlicerIGT open-source software that facilitates technology development for navigated medical interventions for several academic and industrial projects.
Yeo, C. T., Ungi T., U-Thainual P., Lasso A., McGraw R. C., & Fichtinger G.
(2011). The Effect of Augmented Reality Training on Percutaneous Needle Placement in Spinal Facet Joint Injections.
IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering. 58, 2031-7.![]() |
Ungi, T., Yeo C. T., U-Thainual P., McGraw R. C., & Fichtinger G.
(2011). Augmented Reality Needle Guidance Improves Facet Joint Injection Training.
SPIE Medical Imaging. 7964, 79642E 1-7.![]() |
Ungi, T., U-Thainual P., Lasso A., Yeo C. T., McGraw R. C., & Fichtinger G.
(2011). Augmented reality training to improve needle-based percutaneous interventions.
ImNO2011 - Imaging Network Ontario Symposium. ![]() |
U-Thainual, P., Fritz J., Cho N. Bongjoon, Ungi T., Segundo AJM., Carrino J. A., et al.
(2010). Evaluation of accuracy and clinical feasibility of the MR-compatible image overlay.
8th Interventional MRI Symposium. ![]() ![]() |