Slicer3: Image Guided Therapy (IGT)

Goals

The Slicer3 IGT tools will support a number of medical tracking systems, navigation of medical procedures and even technical dissemination.

Features

Currently envisioned features include:

• Support medical tracking systems
  • Flashpoint (Image Guided Technologies, Boulder, CO)
  • Robin Medical
  • Use OpenTracker
  • Extend OpenTracker for new systems

• Used as an intraoperative navigation system
  • Medical procedures
    • Image-guided neurosurgery
    • Image-guided brain biospy
    • Image-guided prostate biopsy
    • Image-guided prostate brachytherapy
    • Image-guided brain thermal ablation
  • Modules and servers
    • Locator module
    • ProstateBiopsy module
    • ProstateBrachy module
    • Ablation module
    • MRT server
    • DICOM listener for image transfer

• Technical dissemination
  • IGT Tutorial Materials

Implementation Options

• Use CMake for building process
• Use KWWidgets to create module interface
• Existing VTK or ITK code can be applied directly

Plan

• Before NA-MIC AHM 2007 (Jan 10-11-12)
  • On Windows XP, download SPLOT and related packages (e.g. ACE, xerces, OpenTracker) and compile them as libraries
  • Modify CMake files in Slicer3 to link Slicer3 to the above libraries
  • Translate Locator module from Slicer2.6 to Slicer3
  • Try to make Slicer3 a demo intraoperative navigation system with Aurora tracking system for image-guided neurosurgery

• After NA-MIC AHM 2007
  • Automate the building process of SPLOT
  • Incorporate SPLOT into the Slicer3 build process
  • Translate other IGT modules from Slicer2.6 to Slicer3
  • Merge SIGN to Slicer3

Issues

Automating the building process for external libraries is a challenge.