NauralNavAmigoSetup

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>