Greetings;<br><br>I am looking for a bit of guidance regarding 3D ultrasound support within IGSTK/VTK/VTKEdge/ITK's open source software.<br><br>Summary:<br>Our
lab requires 3D ultrasound for an IGSTK based research project we're
working on. I have a budget for purchasing the US equipment, and
developer time alloted to the US specific tasks.<br><br>My questions are these:<br>1) Can anyone point me in the direction of someone who already produces the US equipment as described below?<br><br>2)
Does IGSTK/VTK/ITK/VTKEdge already contain the base US functionality
to allow me to build a demo of : ( in ~ 2 man months additional dev
effort ):<br> a) a real-time 3D dataset from the US hardware from item #1 ? ( assume US hardware calibration is a separate project )<br>
b) 2D orthogonal slices from the 3D dataset from item #2a ? ( simple
real-time display, no registering with CT/MR, etc. )<br> c) simple 4-up
display, 3 orthogonal 2D slices, & one 3D image, all real-time (
I'm assuming we'd use VTKEdge, and CUDA here..)<br> <br>3) For the parts of item #2 above that are 'yes', can you point me in the direction of others who are already active in these areas, so I might collaborate with them, as the project evolves?<br>
<br>Details:<br>The sofware/hardware platform for the project is:<br>IGSTK / VTK / VTKEdge / ITK / 3DSlicer, open source<br> Desktop CPU<br> AMD Athlon X2 4200 Dual core<br> Ubuntu 9.04 ( latest greatest )<br>
NVIDIA 9500 GT GPU ( CUDA compliant ).