Surgical Navigation Example Code (NDI/3D Slicer/IGSTK) Posted By: Steve Pieper - Feb 11, 2009Tool/Resource: NITRC Community Hi NITRC - Northern Digital is using open software to demonstrate new 3D trackers for neurosurgery and other applications. See announcement below from Noby Hata and NDI. -Steve Dear NA-MIC community As a part of Image Guided Therapy effort in NA-MIC, we collaborated with Northern Digital Inc to develop therir product demo USING Slicer and IGSTK. Today, they annouced its release at IGSTK's users meeting. I was told that NDI will start distributing the demonstration with Slicer at exhibitions. Please see their product annoucement I attached to this email. The annoucement can be also found at NDI's website. http://www.ndigital.com/medical/pr-igstk... Please witness the power of open source and impact of NA-MIC there again. Nobuhiko Hata, PhD Brigham and Women's Hospital http://www.snrlab.org ======= NDI (Northern Digital Inc.), a world-leader in 3D measurement technology for medical, industrial and research applications, is pleased to announce they will be demonstrating how open source software can be used to quickly build research applications that integrate NDI technology at the first ever IGSTK User Group Meeting. An example of an image-guided needle targeting application using NDI’s Aurora System will be shown at the meeting taking place in Orlando, Florida, on February 7, 2009 and being held in conjunction with the 2009 SPIE Medical Imaging Conference. An 18 gauge needle containing a tiny electromagnetic sensor at its tip will be used to demonstrate how the needle can be displayed on a diagnostic image, and updated in real-time as it is manipulated to accurately target a lesion represented in an anatomical phantom. The software component of the demonstration was built using two open source packages specifically designed to support medical imaging and image-guided surgery research. Jeff Stanley, Technical Account Manager for Medical Research at NDI commented, "NDI continues to value our long-standing relationships with medical researchers in the academic community. We are pleased to show our support of initiatives designed to help researchers more efficiently develop software applications that integrate our tracking technologies. This work will allow new users and existing users to focus their energies on answering their research questions, rather than using valuable resources to develop the tools to get them there." The first package used was the Image-Guided Surgery Toolkit (IGSTK), a project led by the Department of Radiology’s Imaging Science and Information Systems (ISIS) Center at Georgetown University Medical Center in Washington. IGSTK is an open source software toolkit, which provides the basic software components needed to quickly develop image-guided surgery applications. This project is a collaboration between Georgetown University, Kitware, Inc., Arizona State University, and SINTEF from Norway. The principal investigator of the IGSTK project is Dr. Kevin Cleary, Director of the ISIS Center. The second package used was 3D Slicer, open source software for visualization, registration, segmentation, and quantification of medical data. This development effort has been enabled by the participation of several large scale NIH funded efforts. Principal investigators on this project include Dr. Ron Kikinis from the National Alliance of Medical Image Computing (NA-MIC), and Dr. Ferenc Jolesz from the National Center for Image Guided Therapy (NCIGT), both based out of the Brigham & Women’s Hospital in Boston. Other communities involved in the development of the code include the NAC, BIRN and CIMIT research organizations. Support for both of these open source software initiatives comes from several federal funding sources including the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB) as well as many others. For more information about these projects please visit http://www.igstk.org and http://www.slicer.org. For more information about NDI and their products, please visit http://www.ndigital.com/medical/. About NDI Established over 25 years ago, NDI is trusted by international leaders in medicine, industry and research for the accuracy and reliability of its measurement technology. NDI systems are used in applications from computer-assisted surgery to aeronautics; from quality inspection to human motion research. Today, the company is a world leader in advanced 3D measurement technology. With over 14,000 installations in more than 30 countries around the world, NDI’s success has been built on the ability to understand and meet the unique individual needs of customer applications. |
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