IGT:ToolKit/Navigation-with-Aurora
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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 these components to build and use a general purpose navigation system.
Contents
Step 1: Install Slicer3
Follow the instructions here to install Slicer3:
http://wiki.na-mic.org/Wiki/index.php/IGT:ToolKit/Install-Slicer3
Step 2: Install OpenIGTLink module
OpenIGTLink protocol handles data communication between Slicer3 and tracking device (Click here for details). As a loadable module in Slicer3, OpenIGTLink will receive tracking data from the NDI Aurora system.
- If you can find a proper binary here for your computer, download it and unzip the file:
- For Linux box (x86, 32-bit), click here.
- For Windows box (32-bit), click here.
- For Mac box, click here.
- If you'd like to build OpenIGTLink module from the source code, find the instructions here.
- Copy the binary into igt-tutorial/Slicer3-3.0.2008-05-21-linux-x86/lib/Slicer3/Modules
Step 3: Install IGSTK
- Download the binary of IGSTK:
- For your Linux box, click here.
- For your Windows box, click here.
- For your Mac box, click here.
- Unzip the file to igt-tutorial.
Step 4: Connect NDI Aurora tracking device
- Set up your NDI Aurora tracking device
- Connect it to the computer where IGSTK will be run.
- By default, Aurora has only serial port connection.
- If your computer doesn't have a serial port, you need to have a serial-to-USB converter.