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OpenIGTLinkIO Development

Key Investigators

Ole Vegard Solberg (SINTEF, Trondheim, Norway)
Janne Beate Bakeng (SINTEF, Trondheim, Norway)
Kyle Sunderland (Queen’s University, Canada)

Project Description

Plus Toolkit provides access to numerous hardware devices (imaging devices, tracking devices, navigations systems, sensors, etc.) and makes it available through OpenIGTLink protocol
This group has created a common library, OpenIGTLinkIO that simplifies the integration of Plus (and OpenIGTLink-compatible devices or software) into different programs and :
- Ensure software interoperability between Slicer, MITK, CustusX, Ibis Neuronav and potentially other imaging platforms.
- Share software maintenance workload
- Make it easy to share new features
- Add specific features for tracked ultrasound and and augmented reality in surgical navigation

See earlier project weeks for a complete description:

Objective

Publish an online standard for sending ultrasound sector information with OpenIGTLink.

Approach and Plan

This project week we should formalize the “standards” for ultrasound sector information from earlier project weeks. Support for this has been built into PLUS, CustusX and Ibis Neuronav, but a specification should be made and published on OpenIGTLinkIO / IGSIO web page.
- Review and update command specifications
- Review and update ultrasound sector information (IGSIO web page)

Progress and Next Steps

Updated the IGSIO web page with a short description of the current standard for sending ultrasound sector information as meta data in OpenIGTLink image messages, as well as the current format for set/get ultrasound parameter command messages.