IGT:ToolKit

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

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

• 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

• Additional optional open source software
  • IGSTK (The Image-Guided Surgery Toolkit) is used to interface to commercial IGT tracking devices
  • The Robot Control Toolkit is used as an interface to surgical 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

NeuroNav Module in Slicer3

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
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
1	Prostate Therapy Planning in Slicer3 Demonstrates Slicer3's IGT capabilities by using deformable registration and model making to create a preoperative plan for prostate therapy	None
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
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

Development Updates

Slicer3 IGT Development Updates

Contact Information

If you have any comments or requests, please contact Dr. Nobuhiko Hata (hata at bwh.harvard.edu).

Dr. Hata leads the development of Slicer IGT at the National Center for Image Guided Therapy. See the website of his Surgical Navigation and Robotics Laboratory.