MIT Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Fall 2000 Catalogue Supplement

6.963 Medical Innovation and Engineering Research (G)

T 11:30-1, Room 38-466 for 9/19 class
Professor John Guttag, Room 38-401, 3-4601, Dr. Reuben Mezrich, MD, Center for Innovation in Minimally Invasive Therapies
Prereq.: Permission of Instructor
2-0-4

Does not count as an Engineering Concentration Subject

The goal of this subject is to provide opportunities for graduate students and others to identify research topics that combine engineering and medicine. Topics will be presented in two-week blocks. A physician will introduce each topic in the first week. The physician will describe his aspirations and then describe technical hurdles to be overcome to achieve the goals. These hurdles, or at least some aspects of them, will be assigned as homework assignments to groups of students. In the second week the students will present their ideas for attacking the research problems.

Tentative topics include extracting information from medical data, trauma and biosensors, percutaneous treatment of cardiac disease, image guided surgery, endoscopic and robotic coronary surgery, and cross-sectional cardiac imaging.