Hola AMIGO!

Evan Godt | | Screening


August marked the one-year anniversary of the first procedures performed in the Advanced Multimodality Image Guided Operating Suite (AMIGO) at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston. It is the first operating room and interventional suite to provide real-time intra-procedural guidance via MRI, PET/CT, ultrasound, x-ray fluoroscopy and angiography. The integration of the various modalities allows for a wide range of procedures, including neurosurgery, interventional oncology, cardiac ablations and more. Described as a laboratory by staff, the AMIGO suite enables physicians and researchers to introduce and share newly developed procedures.


Evan Godt
Evan Godt, Writer

Evan joined TriMed in 2011, writing primarily for Health Imaging. Prior to diving into medical journalism, Evan worked for the Nine Network of Public Media in St. Louis. He also has worked in public relations and education. Evan studied journalism at the University of Missouri, with an emphasis on broadcast media.

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