Suffolk Construction recently completed the multi-million dollar, state-of-the-art Advanced Multimodality Image Guided Operating (AMIGO) suite at Brigham and Women’s Hospital.
The 5,700-square-foot suite featuring three sterile procedure rooms will let image-guided surgical procedures to be introduced, tested, and perfected.
The AMIGO suite will serve as the clinical arm and research test bed of the National Center for Image Guided Therapy at Brigham and Women’s. Suffolk worked closely with the hospital, architect Payette, and IMRIS, a global leader in image-guided therapy solutions, to create a space that features a first-of-its-kind ceiling-mounted MRI that runs on rails between the MRI room and the operating room. This design allows the equipment, rather than the patient, to move between rooms, resulting in reduced trauma for the patient as well as increased patient safety.
The suite also provides the advanced imaging techniques that help make procedures more precise and enables surgeons to more fully assess the initial results before closing the incision and completing the procedure. This is the first time such a large variety of imaging technologies will be situated together in one space in an operating suite.
