IGT:ToolKit

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4D ultrasound imaging within Slicer3. Paul Novotny, Children's Hospital Boston, Boston and Ben Grauer, Swiss Federal Inst of Tech.
Prototype integration of a neurosurgical robot and Slicer3 using OpenIGTLink, Hideo Fujimoto, Nagoya Inst Tech., Japan
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The Image Guided Therapy Toolkit is a toolkit being developed at the Brigham and Women's Hospital for image guided therapy (IGT). The IGT toolkit is a set of open source software tools integrated with supported hardware devices. We encourage you to download and use the free tools and welcome any comments or feedback.

The Image Guided Therapy Toolkit

  • 3D Slicer
    • Slicer3 (www.slicer.org) is our main platform for software development and dissemination
    • Click here for the Slicer3 installation page
  • Core open source software and protocol
    • The Slicer IGT page provides guidelines for developers and clinicians and information about current projects and upcoming events
    • OpenIGTLink is a communication protocol that allows Slicer3 to communicate with imaging devices, trackers and medical robots
  • Sample Data
    • Sample data is available here

Example projects

Volume rendering with CUDA

GPU accelerated medical image processing for IGT

VTK-MIST integration for fast volume rendering

4D ultrasound using OpenIGTLink

3D ultrasound module in Slicer3 using OpenIGTLink

Tutorials

See the Slicer3 Training page for additional tutorials on Slicer3 capabilities.

Level Tutorial Hardware Requirements Tutorial
1 Basic Navigation Tutorial

Illustrates Slicer3's tracking capabilities using a tracking simulator in place of an actual tracking device

None

Basic Navigation

1 Neurosurgical Planning in Slicer3

Demonstrate's Slicer3's IGT capabilities by using image registration, model making and DTI to create a preoperative plan for neurosurgery

None Neurosurgical Planning Overview
1 Lego IGT and Medical Robotics Tutorial

Provides an overview of all of the main components of IGT and medical robotics, including imaging, pre-operative planning, targetting by tracking, navigation and registration

Lego Mindstorms NXT robot

Lego Deluxe Brick Box

Lego Tutorial
2 Advanced Navigation Tutorial with a tracking device

Illustrates Slicer3's tracking capabilities using a tracking device, and provides a more advanced overview of the OpenIGTLink protocol

Tracking device e.g. NDI Aurora Advanced Navigation Tutorial

Contact Information

If you have any comments or requests, please contact Dr. Nobuhiko Hata at: hata {at-mark} bwh.harvard.edu.

Dr. Hata leads the development of Slicer IGT at the National Center for Image Guided Therapy. The website of his Surgical Navigation and Robotics Laboratory can be found here.