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Should software for prototype and commercial product be different?
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* How did you link the Toshiba navigation system to 3D Slicer? Did Toshiba give you a customized API to work with?
  
How can commercial party get benefit by providing softaware API to IGT research community?
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* ** I added three classes of C++ codes in THEIR program; one for establishing peer-to-peer network connection to my research software; two for sending patient-to-image registration matrix to my research software; the third is to send optical tracker's locations.
  
* Sharing research resource with research community
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* Will that API still be available to you once their navigation system is commercial (your slide says "pre-commercial")?
* Accessing talent and idea outside of company.
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** We don't know.
* IP is an issue
 
  
How can IGT be science?
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* Is the API one that is available to all researchers, or did you have to negotiate a special arrangement with them?
 
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** I did negotiate with them and even send a small sample C++ programs to them to show how harmless my program is for them. Then I send my student to their R&D center and let them work there and in five clinical cases. From my experience, sending students to their R&D site is most efficient way to work with industory. I made similar arrangement with GE too.
--[[User:Hata]] 13:41, 19 October 2006 (EDT)
 

Latest revision as of 13:18, 18 December 2006

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  • How did you link the Toshiba navigation system to 3D Slicer? Did Toshiba give you a customized API to work with?
  • ** I added three classes of C++ codes in THEIR program; one for establishing peer-to-peer network connection to my research software; two for sending patient-to-image registration matrix to my research software; the third is to send optical tracker's locations.
  • Will that API still be available to you once their navigation system is commercial (your slide says "pre-commercial")?
    • We don't know.
  • Is the API one that is available to all researchers, or did you have to negotiate a special arrangement with them?
    • I did negotiate with them and even send a small sample C++ programs to them to show how harmless my program is for them. Then I send my student to their R&D center and let them work there and in five clinical cases. From my experience, sending students to their R&D site is most efficient way to work with industory. I made similar arrangement with GE too.