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. This is a generalization of the previous Tracker Daemon.

ROBOT IGT

Devices

• MRI real time image (currently supporting GE, with an plan to invite other vnedors)

• JHU robots and encoders

• List all devices supported by IGSTK
• Aurora

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

• Optotrack

• future
  • commercial naviation system
  • other open source effort (Siemens)

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)

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)

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)