Survey stealthlink openigtlink

Key Investigators

• Brigham and Women's Hospital: Nobuhiko Hata, Ron Kikinis
• Washington University: Dan Marcus
• Swedish Hospital: Sara Jost

Objective

1. The purpose of this page is to compile a list of institutions indicating interest to use Stealthlink from Medtronics through OpenIGTLink.

Approach, Plan

1. Solicit input from participants from this list.
2. Past contacts who indicated the interest

• Eduard Neuman, Czech Republic, Brno, eneuman AT MARK volny.cz
• Daisuke Inoue, MD, Department of Neurosurgery, Kyusyu University, Japan, dinoue AT MARK ns.med.kyushu-u.ac.jp

Progress

• I went back my email box and tried to pick past contactes who indicated interest to use Stealth Station with Slicer, but not successful.
• I continue to record the contacts in case OpenIGTLink interface becomes available for StealthStation in the future.
• I found that Medtronic and Tina created the following page for us (http://www.na-mic.org/Wiki/index.php/Stealthlink_Protocol) with detail on StealthLink 2. Very helpful.

Update (June 3, 2015)

• PLUS toolkit includes a StealthLink/OpenIGTLink bridge for receiving live tool position information, planning image volume, registration results through StealthLink and sending it to Slicer through OpenIGTLink
• Demo video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UHmv5u-sB5g
• Documentation: http://perk-software.cs.queensu.ca/plus/doc/nightly/user/DeviceStealthLink.html