Documentation/4.0/Modules/OpenIGTLinkIF
Introduction and Acknowledgements
This work is supported by NA-MIC, NCIGT, and the Slicer Community. This work is partially supported by NIH 1R01CA111288-01A1 "Enabling Technologies for MRI-Guided Prostate Interventions" (PI: Clare Tempany), P01-CA67165 "Image Guided Therapy" (PI: Ferenc Joelsz) and AIST Intelligent Surgical Instrument Project (PI: Makoto Hashizume, Site-PI: Nobuhiko Hata). | |||||
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Module Description
The OpenIGTLink Interface Module is a program module for network communication with external software / hardware using OpenIGTLink protocol. The module provides following features:
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Use Cases
- MRI-compatible Robot System (BRP Project between BWH, Johns Hopkins University and Acoustic MedSystems Inc., "Enabling Technologies for MRI-Guided Prostate Interventions")
- The 3D Slicer was connected to the MRI-compatible Robot by using OpenIGTLinkIF to send target position and to get current robot position. It was also connected to the MRI scanner to control scan plane for real-time image and receive MR images from the scanner.
- Neurosurgical Robot Project(Nagoya Institute of Technology, Japan)
- The 3D Slicer was connected to the optical tracking system (Optotrak, Northern Digital Inc.) to acquire current position of the end-effector of the robot.
Tutorials
The test data can be downloaded automatically by pushing the "Load test data" in the panel of the first step (you will need the internet connection).
Panels and their use
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Similar Modules
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References
- Tokuda J, Fischer GS, Papademetris X, Yaniv Z, Ibanez L, Cheng P, Liu H, Blevins J, Arata J, Golby A, Kapur T, Pieper S, Burdette EC, Fichtinger G, Tempany CM, Hata N, OpenIGTLink: An Open Network Protocol for Image-Guided Therapy Environment, Int J Med Robot Comput Assist Surg, 2009 (In print)
Information for Developers
Section under construction. |