2015 Winter Project Week: Benchtop Nuerosurgery

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  Projects List

Key Investigators

• Steve Pieper, Isomics
• Jim Miller, GE

Project Description

Objective

• Develop a plan for a benchtop neurosurgery phantom system.
• Hardware
  • TeleMed MicrUs USB US scanner and probe
  • NDI tracker
  • Microsoft Surface Pro 3 (US)
  • Mac Book Pro (Slicer)
  •  ? video cameras
  • Phantom
• Software
  • TeleMed US API
  • PLUS
  • OpenIGTLink
  • Slicer

Approach, Plan

• Consider all the components to see how to optimize integration and learn the most from the experiments
• Review options for Phantom
  • Life-like or purely abstract?
  • US compatible material options
  • Calibration?
  • Sterilization option for intra-op confirmation?
  • Human factors task to perform (to confirm closed-loop visualization)

Progress

• MicrUS system has been purchased and shipped, and is currently passing through customs
• Initial discussions with PLUS team for coordinated work
  • Planning for working meeting in Boston to integrate MicrUs with PLUS
  • Planning to exploration TeleMed drivers and SDK
    • Digital image acquisition
    • Metadata access and control (Frequency, gain, ...)