The Scottish Image-Guided Intervention Week is a 5-day series of training events taking place in the cities of Dundee and St. Andrews from June 6th – 10th, 2011.  Together, these events provide a combination of both theoretical and hands-on, practical training across some of the most important and rapidly-developing areas in the field of image-guided medical interventions.  These include intra-network training events hosted by partners in the Integrated Interventional Imaging Operating System (IIIOS) consortium.

Event Programme

Event	Delivered By	Date	Location
Imaging Techniques Based on Medical Photonics	University of St Andrews and IIIOS	Monday 6th June 2011	University of St Andrews
Medical Device Regulation and Testing	MR:Comp GmbH and IIIOS	Tuesday 7th June 2011	IMSaT, Dundee
Safety and Compatibility in MR-guided Interventions	MR:Comp GmbH	Wednesday 8th June 2011	IMSaT, Dundee
MR-guided Focussed Ultrasound Surgery	InSightec Ltd	Thursday 9th June 2011	IMSaT, Dundee
MR-guided Deep Brain Stimulatior Insertion	The University of Dundee,GE Medical Systems and SurgiVision	Friday 10th June 2011	IMSaT, Dundee

 

 

Registration

Registration for the Scottish Image Guided Intervention Week has now closed.

Late registrations may be accepted. If you are interested in attending one of the courses please email interventionweek@dundee.ac.uk to check the availablity of the courses.

 

Hosts and Partners

The Scottish Image-Guided Intervention Week events will take place at the University of St. Andrews and the Institute for Medical Science and Technology (IMSaT), University of Dundee.  Multiple institutions from several countries will contribute expertise to the training events.  Two of the events are dedicated training events for the IIIOS Initial training network..

The course locations in Dundee and St. Andrews are approximately 20 miles apart, with strong transport links.  All registrants will be provided with details of transport to both Dundee and St. Andrews and accommodation options. 

 

Partners:

• IIIOS Network - www.IIIOS.eu
• Institute for Medical Science and Technology - www.IMSaT.org
• University of St.  Andrews - www.st-andrews.ac.uk/~biophotnics
• MR:comp GmbH -www.mrcomp.com
• InSightec Ltd - www.insightec.com
• GE Healthcare - www.gehealthcare.com
• SurgiVision - http://www.surgivision.com

 

Associate Partners:

• Society for Medical Innovation and Technology (SMIT) - www.smit.de
• Scottish Imaging Network: A Platform for Scientific Excellence (SINAPSE) - www.sinapse.ac.uk
• Northern Research Partnership Joint Research Institute for Medical Technologies (NRP) - www.northscotland-research.ac.uk

 

Further Information

Please direct any queries about registration for the events to: interventionweek@dundee.ac.uk