About Us - Research @ MGH Neurosurgical Service

The Neurosurgery Surgical Research Lab on White 5 (WHT-539) has available a number of resources available for use by all of the Neurosurgery Staff and Residents and Fellows. Multimedia Support: To assist in the preparation for lectures, posters and presentations there are variety of resources: Computers: networked systems with a variety of software packages including Office97/2000 and Adobe PhotoShop, etc.. Scanning: an HP ScanJet 4c with transparency adapter for scanning images (MR, CT, prints) and text (with OCR software). Slides: a LaserGraphics LFRplus slide maker for both 35mm slides and color prints. Printing: a Kodak ColorEase printer for printing photographic images. Disk Drives: Zip disk, Optical disk and CD-Recordable drives. Modems: PPP and PPTP dial-Up access accounts for connections from home systems to access departmental and network resources. Photography: camera & copy stand with CCD camera for image grab of samples. Internet Services: servers for web systems, web hosting, listservers, e-mail systems, web forums and bulletin boards. Collaborative data systems for databases, and image archiving. Please contact C.Owen via ppd page id 2-648 or by e-mail to owen@helix.mgh.harvard.edu for more information.

Surgical Research Support:

The Neurosurgery Surgical Laboratories are available for use by all Investigators in Neurosurgery. Depending upon schedule, the facilities are also available for use by outside investigators. There are facilities for minor and major, acute and survival surgery. Some of the equipment available includes:

• Anesthesia systems for injectable and inhalation anesthesia.
• Monitors for direct and indirect BP, temperature, pulse oximetry, end-tidal-CO2, EKG are available.
• Fluoroscopy and X-Ray systems for device placement and angiography.
• Mobile systems for support of procedures at fixed imaging systems; CT, MR and PET.
• Templates for preparation of research protocols.
• Case Planning software for CT, MR and PET image analysis and fusion.

There are personnel available that experience with:

For information on the types of projects conducted in the Neurosurgery Surgical Laboratories, see further descriptions here.

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