Slicer3:openIGT Tutorial For 4D Volume Rendering Data

This tutorial will teach you how to setup Slicer3 and an image provider to send and display 4D image data.

Prepare Slicer3

Downloading and Compiling the source

• Download and Compile a copy of Slicer as described in Slicer3:Build_Instructions.
  •  !! use http://www.na-mic.org/svn/Slicer3/branches/igt_cuda_merge as the source !!

Setting up the 3D Slicer

1. Start up Slicer3
2. Select the OpenIGTLink Module from the Modules Tab
   

   Select the OpenIGTLink Module
3. Start the server, by clicking on the 'Connector Browser' Tab.
   

   Enable OpenIGT Server
   1. Add a Server
   2. Select a Name (optional)
   3. Set the type to server
   4. Enable the server by setting the status to 'Enabled'.

Get IP-Address of the Slicer Computer

Store the IP-Address of the computer. This is done by 'ipconfig' on Windows and 'ifconfig' on UNIX.

Prepare the Image Provider

Downloading and Compilation

• Check out the Server code from http://www.na-mic.org/svn/NAMICSandBox/trunk/BRPTools/ScannerIO

   svn co http://www.na-mic.org/svn/NAMICSandBox/trunk/BRPTools/ScannerIO

• Compile the Code

   cmake .
   make

• Download the data package with ct-scans of a human heart Media:heart256.zip and unzip it into the source directory