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Basic Slicer3 Navigation Tutorial

Overview:

This tutorial uses a tracking simulator to explain how navigation works in Slicer3.

A general IGT navigation system consists of the following components:

• Slicer3 - the base platform
• IGSTK - an interfacing tool for common commercial tracking devices
• A tracking device - such as the NDI Aurora magnetic tracking system

The tracking simulator simulates the tracking device and the IGSTK interfacing software.

Those wishing to connect a real tracking system to Slicer3 should see the Advanced Navigation Tutorial.

Tutorial Materials

• Tutorial slides for the Basic Navigation Tutorial
• Atlas: download the .zip file from either the SPL-PNL Brain Atlas or the SPL Abdominal Atlas
• Tool model (right-click to download)
  • If Windows saves the file as Tool.htm intstead of Tool.vtk: Select Start->Run, type "cmd", type "cd <directory where Tool.htm is>", type "move Tool.htm Tool.vtk"

Software Installation Instructions

Step 1: Install Slicer3

• Go to the Slicer3 Install site.
• Download a Slicer binary for your platform.
• Install Slicer.

Step 2: Install the tracker simulator

The tracking simulator will be used to generate and send fake tracking data to Slicer3.

• You have the choice of either downloading a precompiled version (binary) OR building it yourself from the source code:
  • Precompiled tracking simulator: Download and unzip.
    • For Windows (32-bit).
    • For Mac OS X(x86).
    • For Linux (x86, 32-bit).
    • For Linux (x86, 64-bit).
  • Building the tracker simulator from source code: Find the instructions here

People

• Junichi Tokuda
• Haiying Liu
• Nobuhiko Hata
• Danielle Pace