NauralNavAmigoSetup

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NeuralNav system setup in the AMIGO suite

System components

  • PLUS computer (Thinkpad W520 laptop running Win 7 64-bit)
    • Functions
      • Temporal calibration: synch ultrasound and tracking data streams
      • Spatial calibrations? Image-to-Probe, Reference-to-RAS
      • Saves synchronized ultrasound and tracking data to file (mha format)
    • Framegrabber, connected through USB - Epiphan VGA2USB LR
    • PLUS is compiled in 64-bit to save long tracked US sequences in one session.
  • BK ultrasound machine
    • Functions
      • Provides images to the PLUS computer
    • Image provided through VGA output
    • Probes: BK 8862, BK 8863
  • Brainlab (tracker)
    • Functions
      • Spatial calibration: Image-to-Probe, Reference-to-RAS
      • Provides tracking data to the PLUS computer
      • Provides additional surgical navigation information
    • Tracking the following tools: Probe, Reference, Stylus
    • Provides tracking data through OpenIGTLink
  • Slicer computer???
    • Display tracked US and tracked surgical tools relative to the MRI

System setup

PLUS computer

Tracker device configuration: <source lang="xml"> Type="OpenIGTLinkTracker" MessageType="TDATA" </source>