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==Key Investigators==
* Andras Lasso (Queen's University, Canada)
* [http://nist.mni.mcgill.ca/?page_id=369 Simon Drouin] (Montreal Neurological Institute, Canada)
* Junichi Tokuda (Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, USA)
* Longquan Chen (Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, USA)
* Adam Rankin (Robarts Research Institute, Canada)
* [http://www.sintef.no/en/all-employees/employee/?EmpID=2596 Janne Beate Bakeng] (SINTEF, Norway)

==Project Description==
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* [http://www.plustoolkit.org Plus toolkit] provides access to numerous hardware devices (imaging devices, tracking devices, navigations systems, sensors, etc.) and makes it available through [http://www.openigtlink.org OpenIGTLink] protocol
* Create a common library that makes communication with Plus (and OpenIGTLink-compatible devices or software) very simple:
** Ensure software interoperability
** Share software maintenance workload
** Make it easy to share new features
* Add specific features for tracked ultrasound and surgical navigation
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* Finish implementation of remote control of PlusServerLauncher
* Implement the ultrasound control messages
* Merge IGSIO/OpenIGTLink into OpenIGTLink and close the IGSIO/OpenIGTLink repository
* Reintegrate IGSIO/OpenIGTLinkIO in OpenIGTLinkIF
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==Background and References==
*Winter 2016 [[2016_Winter_Project_Week/Projects/TrackedUltrasoundStandardization | project page]]
*Summer 2016 [[ 2016 Summer Project Week/Tracked Ultrasound Standardization | project page]]
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