The Megrez Navigation System developed by Symbow Medical Technology Co., Ltd. was recently successfully installed in the state-of-the-art AMIGO (Advanced Multimodality Image Guided Operating) suite at Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women’s Hospital.
AMIGO suite is an innovative surgical and interventional environment that is the clinical translational test bed of the National Center for Image-Guided Therapy (NCIGT) at Harvard Medical School and Brigham & Women’s Hospital. AMIGO is an integrated operating suite with 5,700 square-foot area divided into three sterile procedural rooms in which a multidisciplinary team can treat patients with the benefit of intra-operative imaging using multiple imaging modalities. By now in AMIGO, real-time anatomical imaging modalities like X-ray and ultrasound are combined with cross sectional digital imaging systems like CT, MRI, and PET to provide more accurate and safe therapeutic procedures.
Megrez navigation system is a unique commercialized product with true MRI-compatibility as well as offline navigation capability at present. It can provide minimally invasive surgical or interventional procedural guidance under open MRI, 1.5T or 3T close-bore MRI, CT, and PET/CT. With MRI systems, Megrez system functions while an MRI is acquiring images. More over, Megrez can feedback the surgical tool’s position information (location and orientation) to a scanner so that MRI scans can follow the movement a surgical device. Such an interactive real-time mode provides surgeons with updated spatial relationship information between surgical tools and anatomical targets. With the help of interactive real-time navigation, procedure guidance is more accurate and safe. The Megrez system also provides scanner-side offline navigation, where guidance is provided outside but close by a scanner, allowing for frequent in-and-out scanning-and-navigation.
By introducing the Megrez navigation system, surgeons or interventional radiologists can perform navigated procedures under both anatomical and functional imaging guidance as well as merged multiple imaging modality guidance. The installation of Megrez in AMIGO is definitely a plus for Harvard as the introduction of Megrez not only satisfies the doctors’ requirements on the accuracy of the minimally invasive interventional surgery, but also extends clinical applications in AMIGO.

With the Assistant of Megrez Navigation System, Harvard doctors can now conveniently perform interventional procedures right by the 3T MRI scanner or inside the MRI bore.

Harvard experts are demonstrating the PET/CT guided therapy procedure with the assistant of Megrez® Navigation System.

Megrez Navigation System is integrated into the AMIGO suite for multiple imaging modalities guided navigation.