IGT:ToolKit/Navigation-tutorial

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The general navigation system consists of the following components:

• Slicer3: the base platform for navigation
• IGT loadable modules: Software modules, pluginned into Slicer3, for supporting IGT specific functionality
• IGSTK: An interfacing tool for common commercial tracking devices
• Tracking device: e.g. NDI Aurora tracking system

This tutorial explains how to set up these components to build and use a general purpose navigation system.

Step 1: Install Slicer3

Follow the instructions here to install Slicer3:
http://wiki.na-mic.org/Wiki/index.php/IGT:ToolKit/Install-Slicer3

• Binary packages (version 3.2 release)
  • Windows 32 bit
  • Linux x86 32 bit
  • Linux x86 64 bit
  • Mac OS X x86
  • Mac OS X PPC

Step 2: Install OpenIGTLink module

OpenIGTLink protocol handles data communication between Slicer3 and tracking device (Click here for details).

• The followings are binary package for Slicer 3.2 stable release. If you can find a proper binary here for your computer, download it and unzip the file:
  • For Linux box (x86, 32-bit), click here.
  • For Linux box (x86, 64-bit), click here.
  • For Windows box (32-bit), click here.
  • For Mac OS X(x86), click here.
• If you'd like to build OpenIGTLink module from the source code, find the instructions here.
• Copy the binary into your-slicer3-build(install)-directory/lib/Slicer3/Modules.
• You should see OpenIGTLink in the Slicer3 module list after Slicer is started.

Step 3: Simulator

This is a dummy client program to send coordinate data to the slicer Open IGT Link module.

• • For Linux (x86, 32-bit), click here.
  • For Linux (x86, 64-bit), click here.
  • For Windows (32-bit), click here.
  • For Mac OS X (x86), click here.