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OpenIGTLink is a communication protocol designed to work on the TCP/IP application layer to handle image, tracking data, transform, device control and monitoring command, and other user-defined data types. An example use case is a computer interfaced to a tracking device, gathers pose information of surgical instruments and packages the information in an OpenIGTLink protocol and sends the data over a network connection to a quantitative imaging workstation that runs | OpenIGTLink is a communication protocol designed to work on the TCP/IP application layer to handle image, tracking data, transform, device control and monitoring command, and other user-defined data types. An example use case is a computer interfaced to a tracking device, gathers pose information of surgical instruments and packages the information in an OpenIGTLink protocol and sends the data over a network connection to a quantitative imaging workstation that runs | ||
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Revision as of 15:27, 4 June 2010
Introduction
OpenIGTLink is a communication protocol designed to work on the TCP/IP application layer to handle image, tracking data, transform, device control and monitoring command, and other user-defined data types. An example use case is a computer interfaced to a tracking device, gathers pose information of surgical instruments and packages the information in an OpenIGTLink protocol and sends the data over a network connection to a quantitative imaging workstation that runs
Description
Workflow
Client
- Establish connection with server side ( Example: igtl::ClientSocket )
- Generate OpenIGTLink message (data-to-be-sent ) and package in Open IGT Link format. (Example: igtl::TransformMessage )
- Send data through TCP/IP socket connection
Server side
Types of OpenIGTLink message
Version 1
- Transform ( igtlTransformMessage )
- Image ( igtlImageMessage )
- Position ( igtlPositionMessage )
- Status message ( igtlStatusMessage )
