Fiscal Year 2003 Awards

Diagnosis of pancreatic cysts
Brett Bouma, PhD, MGH

Spectrally encoded confocal microscopy
Brett Bouma, PhD, MGH

Developing a gene ratio-based test kit to diagnose lung cancer
Raphael Bueno, MD, BWH

Diagnosing osteoarthritis using polarization sensitive OCT
Johannes de Boer, PhD, MGH

Robust elastography for IVUS- and OCT-based imaging of strain in the vulnerable atherosclerotic plaque
Raymond Chan, PhD, MGH

Continuous cardiac output for combat casualty care
Richard Cohen, PhD, MIT

Developing realistic simulation-based training systems for personnel using the OR suite
Jeffrey Cooper, PhD, MGH

Atraumatic temporary arterial branch perfusion device
Magruder Donaldson, MD, BWH

Electrostrictive polymer artificial muscle (EPAM) devices for magnetic resonance imaging
Steven Dubowsky, PhD, MIT

Image-guided endoscopy for LAPUS project
James Ellsmere, MD, BWH

Field cooling of injured soldiers
Massimo Ferrigno, MD, BWH

Functional intraoperative imaging for cardiac surgery and gene therapy
John Frangione, PhD, BIDMC

OR of the Future outcomes
G. Scott Gazelle, PhD, MGH

Vulnerable plaque outcomes
G. Scott Gazelle, PhD, MGH

Percutaneous myocyte replacement for CHF
Herman Gold, MD, MGH

Radio frequency impedance mapping for medical imaging
Aaron Grant, PhD, BIDMC

MRI of carotid plaques at 3 Tesla
Robert Greenman, PhD, BIDMC

Patient-centric networking and applications
John Guttag, PhD, MIT

Macropahge-targeted photodynamic detection and therapy of vulnerable plaque
Michael Hamblin, PhD, MGH

Use of radio frequency ablation to treat metastatic disease of the spine
Joshua Hirsh, MD, BIDMC

Noninvasive image-guided opening of the blood-brain barrier
Kullervo Hynynen, PhD, BWH

Measuring impact of a passive wireless tracking system
Keith Isaacson, MD, MGH / Newton Wellesley

Prostate cancer
Michael Jaklitsch, MD, BWH

Learning predictive rules from medical data
Leslie Kaebling, PhD, MIT & David Rattner, MD, MGH

Continuous cerebral imaging in the ICU
Saad Khan-Butler, MD, MGH

Active patch therapy for ischemic mitral regurgitation
Robert Levine, PhD, MGH

A method and device for bladder mapping
W. Scott McDougall, MD, MGH

Optically controlled neural prosthesis
Reuben Mezrich, PhD, BWH / MIT

Real-time intraoperative functional imaging of myocardial injury and graft patency
Tomislav Mihaljevic, MD, BWH

System to target brain areas for transcranial magnetic simulation in stroke
Alvaro Pascual-Leone, PhD, BIDMC

Photochemical tissue bonding
Robert Redmond, PhD, MGH

Nanofibrous scaffolds for cartilage regeneration
Sonya Shortkroff, PhD, BWH

External mitral annuloplasty
Alexander Slocum, Professor, MIT

High-frequency ultrasound imaging and characterization of skin lesions in vivo
Mandayan Srinivasan, PhD, MIT

In vivo detection of inflamed plaques
Ahmed Tawakol, MD, MGH

Speckle-imaging for plaque characterization
Guillermo Tearney, PhD, MGH

Chest tube access
David Torchiana, MD, MGH

IV access
David Torchiana, MD, MGH

Minimally invasive reconstruction of midfacial skeleton
Maria Troulis, DDS, MGH

Tissue engineering program
Joseph Vancanti, MD, MGH

Detection of pentane in patient exhaled breath by FAIMS
Angela Zapata, PhD, Draper

Characterization of a pyrolysis-planer FAIMS for the detection of bacillus spores
Angela Zapata, PhD, Draper