Imaging techniques like X-ray and MRI are invaluable for treating a wide variety of illnesses and injuries. The challenge remains to shorten the lapse of time between image acquisition and procedure. Patient preference for minimally invasive surgery makes real-time imaging information vital.

Image Guided Therapy (IGT) techniques help improve therapeutic outcomes. By providing precise ways to "visualize" intra-procedural anatomical changes in real time, IGT helps clarify a surgeon's understanding of the patients' anatomy and enables minimally invasive procedures to be performed inside solid organs. Guided by real-time imaging, surgeons can make decisions based on accurate data-sometimes the crucial difference between life and death.

CIMIT's Image Guided Therapy Program is focused on providing precise high-resolution, three-dimensional ways to "visualize" intra-procedural changes in real time, allowing minimally invasive surgery to be performed on solid organs that would otherwise require traditional surgical procedures.