Difference between revisions of "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 a general navigation system with a tracking simulator.

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 (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.
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.

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.

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 === '''Step 1: Install Slicer3''' ===
-Follow the instructions here to install Slicer3:<br>
+*Download one Slicer3 binary for your computer (version 3.2 release)
-http://wiki.na-mic.org/Wiki/index.php/IGT:ToolKit/Install-Slicer3
-*Binary packages (version 3.2 release)
 ** [http://www.slicer.org/DownloadSlicer.php/Nightly/Slicer3-3.2.2008-06-02-win32.exe For Windows (32-bit)]
 ** [http://www.slicer.org/DownloadSlicer.php/Nightly/Slicer3-3.2.2008-06-02-linux-x86.tar.gz For Linux (x86, 32-bit)]