NIH gives image-guided therapy boost
Physicians, scientists, and other stakeholders formed the Foundation for Focused Ultrasound Research in January 2005 as a nonprofit vehicle to promote the specialty of high-intensity focused ultrasound.
Physicians, scientists, and other stakeholders formed the Foundation for Focused Ultrasound Research in January 2005 as a nonprofit vehicle to promote the specialty of high-intensity focused ultrasound.
At the end of 2005, image-guided therapy in general got a boost when the National Institutes of Health awarded $15 million to Brigham and Women's Hospital to establish the National Center for Image-Guided Therapy. The center is led by Dr. Ferenc A. Jolesz, long-time director of BWH's image-guided therapy program and a professor of radiology at Harvard University.
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