Fiscal Year 2001 Awards

ENABLING TECHNOLOGIES

CATHETER-BASED INTERVENTION
Intravascular MR imaging wire
E. Kent Yucel, MD, BWH

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MINIMALLY-INVASIVE SURGERY
Intraluminal coronary shunts versus extraluminal occlusion
Lishan Aklog, MD, BWH

Thorascopic and laparoscopic esophagectomy
Henning Gaissert, MD, BWH

Endoscopic laser surgery for severe twin-twin transfusion syndrome
David Acker, MD, BWH

Robot-assisted coronary bypass surgery
David Torchiana, MD, MGH

3-D image planning system: endoscopically placed distraction device
Leonard Kaban, DDM, MD, MGH

OR of the future
David Rattner, MD, MGH

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IMAGE-GUIDED TECHNOLOGY
Registered ultrasound for surgical guidance
Robert Howe, PhD, HMA

Intraoperative MRI-liver cryotherapy testbed: ORF
Simon Warfield, MD, BWH

Segmentation of bone from CT & vessels from MRA
Carl-Fredrik Westin, PhD, BWH

Focused ultrasound treatment for breast cancer
Ferenc Jolesz, MD, BWH

Image-guided endoscopy
Ferenc Jolesz, MD, BWH

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BIOMATERIALS/TISSUE REPAIR
Polymer-Based Gene Delivery Platform
Robert Langer, ScD, MIT

Degradable conductive polymers
Robert Langer, ScD, MIT

Engineered vascularized tissue in-vitro for implant
Joseph Vacanti, MD, MGH and Jeffrey Borenstein, PhD, Draper

Engineered vascularized tissue in vitro for implant
Joseph Vacanti, MD, MGH

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TRAUMA/CRITICAL CARE
Real-time blood assay
Christopher Dubé, PhD, Draper

NIR of tissue pH & O2 in ischemia
Juan Carlos Puyana, MD, BWH

Internet system: home-based health monitoring
William Wiesmann, MD, Harvey Mudd College

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VULNERABLE PLAQUE
Vulnerable plaque program
James Muller, MD, MGH

Treatment of vulnerable atherosclerotic plaques with macrophage-targeted photodynamic therapy
Michael Hamblin, PhD, MGH

CT and MRI imaging of vulnerable plaque
Thomas Brady, MD, MGH

Vulnerable plaque
Renu Vermani, MD, Armed Forces Institute of Pathology (AFIP)

OCT imaging of carotid plaques
Karen Furie, MD, MGH

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STROKE
Continuous monitoring stroke: diffuse optical tomography
David Boas, PhD, MGH

Stroke patient transport
R. Gilberto Gonzalez, MD, PhD, MGH

 

NEW INITIATIVES

Precisely aligned transducers (PAT) for breast health monitoring
Alexander Slocum, PhD, MIT

MI pulmonary artery binding of porcine cardiac xenographs
David Adams, MD, BWH

Detecting endothelial sheer stress: intravascular flow profiling
Peter Stone, MD, BWH

Incontinence device using novel conductive polymer
Robert Krane, MD, MGH and Ian Hunter, PhD, MIT

A magnetic enteroscope
Gil Pratt, PhD, MIT

Multispectral imaging for endoscopy and laparoscopy
Nishioka, Norman, MD, MGH

Elastically scattered polarized light
Lev Perlman, MD, BIDMC