“MR Safety” is the topic of the School of MRI, which is organized by the European Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine and Biology, taking place in Vienna from October 18 – 20. The course informs about current risk factors as well as latest clinical trends and standards in this field of work. Prof. Andreas Melzer contributes his knowledge in the area of patient and personnel safety. He holds a lecture on “MR-safety issues in interventional MR”.

Two new projects have launched at ICCAS. Already in September, the BMBF-funded joint project “Cooperative immersive assistance system for minimally invasive surgery – COMPASS” started, in which ICCAS and several partners from science, clinic and industry develop an artificial navigation awareness for the intelligent support of minimally invasive endoscopic navigation.

On October 9th, the kick off of the BMBF-funded KMU-innovativ project “Innovative imaging for tissue differentiation in minimally invasive surgery – LYSiS” took place at ICCAS. In this project, ICCAS in cooperation with Diaspective Vision GmbH and the Clinic and Polyclinic for Visceral, Transplantation, Thoracic and Vascular Surgery is researching on a computer-assisted method for the automatic characterization, recognition and presentation of tissue from intraoperative hyperspectral imaging data.

At the World Congress for Nuclear Medicine (Annual Conference of the European Association of Nuclear Medicine – EANM 2018), which takes place from October 13-17 in Düsseldorf, Prof. Andreas Melzer speaks on the topic of “Trends in Computer-Assisted Intervention”. Afterwards, the experts discuss “Incorporating Imaging and Machine Intelligence in the Operating Room” and how interventional workflows will be affected.

The Fraunhofer Interactive Exhibition #Zukunftsarbeit takes place from October 8 – 12, 2018 in Berlin. Prof. Andreas Melzer is one of the experts of the panel discussion #Zukunftsarbeit Gesundheit. Diverse top-level panelists from science and politics will discuss the workplace of the future in the field of health and nursing care. The discussion points will serve as a basis for a Fraunhofer white paper with recommendations on the work place of the future in the fields of manufacturing and health.

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On October 5 and 6 the 12th Interventional MRI Symposium will take place in Boston (USA). There, Prof. Andreas Melzer will lead the “Special Session for European Focused Ultrasound Charitable Society”, in which he will also share his knowledge on “Novel Technologies and Applications of MR Guided Focused Ultrasound (MRgFUS) and High Intensive Focused Ultrasound (HIFU)” as a guest speaker. In addition, poster contributions on the topics “Status Quo and Demands for MR-Guided Endomyocardial Biopsies” and “Integration of a MR-Compatible Robotic Arm for PET/MRI Guided Focused Ultrasound Treatment” will be presented.

The third newsletter for 2018 has been published with information about our activities from June until mid-September. Enjoy reading this summary!

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The third newsletter for 2018 has been published with information about our activities from June until mid-September. Enjoy reading this summary!

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If you wish to stay informed about ICCAS, please register in the newsletter form on our website www.iccas.de . Thank you very much!

The 70th Congress of the German Society of Urology (DGU) took place from September 26 – 29 in Dresden under the motto “Tradition, Innovation and Responsibility”. Here, Prof. Andreas Melzer and Dr. Stefan Franke presented the operating theatre of tomorrow – on the one hand as guest speaker at the opening plenum and on the other hand in the forum “Robot-assisted surgical techniques of tomorrow”.

At this year’s Conference of the German Society for Biomedical Engineering in Aachen, ICCAS scientists contributed with several topics.
Prof. Thomas Neumuth gave a keynote lecture on “Patient Specific Model Guided Therapy”. Furthermore, Dr. Stefan Franke spoke about “Context-Awareness for Control Consoles in Integrated Operating Rooms” and Dr. Claire Chalopin about “Hyperspectral Based Discrimination of Thyroid and Parathyroid During Surgery”. Xinrui Zhang held a lecture on “Combination of Focused Ultrasound Hyperthermia (FUS-HT) and Radiation Therapy: Validation of In Vitro Effects in a Preliminary Study”.
In two years the BMT will take place in Leipzig.

The annual congress of the Cardiovascular And Interventional Radiological Society of Europe took place from September 22 to 25 in Lisbon. Here, research group leader Dr. Lisa Landgraf presented the topics “Towards the integration of robotic concepts into the interventional oncology workflow of combined focused ultrasound and radiation therapy” and “Ultrasound therapy system for high throughput in vitro analysis” in poster form.