2008 Summer Project Week:PerkStation
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Key Investigators
- PI: Gabor Fichtinger, Queen's University
- Queen's University: Siddharth Vikal
- Johns Hopkins University: Csaba Csoma
- NA-MIC:
Objective
The objective of this project (PERK Station) is to develop a tool implemented as a Slicer 3 module, that provides feedback to trainees in a controlled environment for performing image-guided percutaneous needle interventions.
Approach, Plan
The Perk Station comprises of image overlay, laser overlay, and standard tracked freehand navigation in a single suite. The physician looks at the patient through the mirror showing the image overlay and the CT/MR image appears to be floating inside the body with the correct size and position, as if the physician had 2D ‘X-ray vision’. The planning and control software runs on a stand-alone laptop, where we draw a visual guide along the trajectory of insertion, mark the depth of insertion and push this image onto the overlay display.
Progress
