Opening a new Brain Suite

The Montreal Children's Hospital inaugurates its new Pediatric Interventional Brain Suite, home to the first intraoperative magnetic resonance (MRI) in a Canadian pediatric hospital and the first in Quebec.

In this multimedia page you are able to download pictures and videos of Émilie's surgery and two interviews with Dr. Jean-Pierre Farmer.

View the press release

Pictures

Legends :

1. Newly constructed operating room in the Pediatric Interventional Brain Suite
2. Team at work during surgery of Émilie Gagnon in the Pediatric Interventional Brain Suite
3. Team at work during surgery of Émilie Gagnon in the Pediatric Interventional Brain Suite
4. Team at work during surgery of Émilie Gagnon in the Pediatric Interventional Brain Suite
5. Team comforting Émilie Gagon as she is put under anesthesia in preparation for her brain surgery
6. Surgeons look at automatic volumetric registration process. This provides a measurement of where the child head is in space enabling surgeons to navigate with precision to the tumour.

Videos

*The footage above is of the surgery on Emilie Gagnon on October 19, 2009. Media outlets may only use this film footage to illustrate Émilie's story and any news items related to the new intraoperative MRI at The Montreal Children's Hospital of the MUHC.