Technology-Guided Therapy 

The Center for Technology-Guided Therapy is dedicated to helping physicians diagnose and treat disease with minimal damage to healthy tissues. The center designs systems and devices for improving the guidance of surgery and other therapeutic interventions.

The center’s image-guided surgery system enables surgeons to more accurately pinpoint the location of tumors in tissues otherwise difficult to visually differentiate, such as the brain and the liver, during the surgical process.

To do that, the center has developed a number of devices and techniques to integrate information from different computer-assisted imaging modalities, such as MRI, CT scans, Positron Emission Tomography and Single Photon Emission Tomography. This combined data serves as a map to guide the surgeon during surgery.

The center’s interactive surgical guidance devices combine intraoperative tracking of surgical position and orientation with preoperative scans, giving surgeons a visual representation of where their surgical tools are within the body mapped onto the scans. These devices may be optically tracked using infrared light, magnetically tracked for non-line-of-sight application, or may be surgical robots.

Director: Robert L. Galloway,

Professor of Biomedical Engineering

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