OpenIGTLink

Overview

Open IGT Link is a simple network protocol intended for trackers, robots and other devices to send data to the main application. Some devices might also accept commands. (Robot IGT)

This is a generalization of the previous Tracker Daemon.

Devices

• MRI real time image (currently supporting GE, planning to invite other vendors)
• JHU robots and encoders
• List all devices supported by IGSTK
• Aurora
• Optotrack
• future:
  • commercial naviation system
  • other open source effort (Siemens)

(Please contact us if you would like to include other devices.)

Protocol and implementations

Based on simple TCP/IP protocol that can be directly accessed through sockets.

• Open IGT Link Protocol description
• Slicer Daemon
• Functions for the protocol (library)
• Building a test program

People / Organizations

• Luis Ibanez, Kitware
• Junichi Tokuda, BWH
• Csaba Csoma, JHU
• Jack Blevins, Acousticmed
• Patrick Cheng, Georgetown University
• Haying Liu, BWH
• Insight Software Consortium
• National Alliance for Medical Image Computing (NA-MIC)
• Intelligent Surgical Instrument Project sponsored by The Ministry of International Trade and Industry, Japan
• Jumpei Arata, Nagoya Institute of Technology, Japan (robot control)

License

New BSD license ©2008 Insight Software Consortium

Resources

• Slicer 3 Image Guided Therapy (IGT) suite
• Slicer 3 Daemon
• Tracker Daemon
• OpenDMTP - Open Device Monitoring and Tracking Protocol
• Uniform Driver Interface (UDI)