Last Updated: January 9, 2008
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Gordon-CenSSIS Program Director and researcher, Richard Moore will present at the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) 2007 Annual Meeting
Richard Moore of the Division of Breast Imaging at Massachusetts General Hospital will be presenting the results of an NIH-sponsored Digital Breast Tomosynthesis (DBT) 3D mammography trial he conducted with Dr. Daniel Kopans at the upcoming RSNA 2007 Annual Meeting. Based on the results of this research, the clinical use of DBT should translate into saving 1-2 million exams per year that turn out to be false alarms. Gordon-CenSSIS Graduate Student, Jeff Zhang was instumental in parallelizing the reconstruction code, making DBT a clinically practical method. More information on the RSNA 2007 Annual Meeting.
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CenSSIS Receives Gift of $20 Million To Advance Center and Create New Programs To Inspire And Educate Future Engineering Leaders! Northeastern University announced it is receiving a gift of $20 million from The Gordon Foundation, established by engineering innovator and philanthropist Bernard M. Gordon and his wife, Sophia. The gift represents the largest single donation in the university’s history. It will support Northeastern’s Center for Subsurface Sensing and Imaging Systems (CenSSIS) and establish an innovative model for educating engineering leaders, the Gordon Engineering Leadership Program. Read Full Press Release.

TRANSLATING ADVANCED RESEARCH INTO THE TECHNOLOGIES OF TOMORROW
The Bernard M. Gordon Center for Subsurface Sensing and Imaging Systems is a multi-university National Science Foundation Engineering Research Center (NSF-ERC) founded in 2000. Its mission is to develop new technologies to detect hidden objects—and to use those technologies to meet realworld subsurface challenges in areas as diverse as noninvasive breast cancer detection and underground pollution assessment.

The center’s multidisciplinary approach combines expertise in wave physics (photonics, ultrasonics, electromagnetics), multisensor fusion, image processing, and 3D CAT-scan-like reconstruction and visualization. The Gordon Center operates with the speed and agility more typical of a results-driven private company than of an academic institution, consistent with the needs of its industrial and government partners. With its commitment to leveraging technology transfer to spur economic development, the Gordon Center is intended to be a national model for the fusion of academic research and private-sector collaboration.

The Gordon Foundation has provided a gift to sustain the NSF-ERC and create a new educational initiative: the Gordon Engineering Leadership Program. The program will train graduates, called Gordon Fellows, who will constitute a cadre of technology drivers adept at envisioning new engineering products and skilled at leading multidisciplinary teams to bring their ideas to market.


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