[IGSTK-Users] real-time intra-operative 3D ultrasound research project

[Kevin Cleary]

Tony

 

I am the principal investigator for the IGSTK project which is funded by
NIH, so I am probably least qualified to answer your questions, but let me
start the discussion:

1)  We talked about your email about our lab meeting at Georgetown this
morning

2)  If you have experienced VTK/ITK developers your schedule may be
realistic

3)  We have built some of the functionality you mention but it was not all
put in our release 

a.  However I will send you separately a paper we wrote for SPIE Meidcal
Imaging 2009 that shows some of this - I cannot attach it here or it will
bounce I think

4)  As for 3D ultrasound I am not sure who the best vendor is - we use a 2D
unit from Terason

5)  For more details it would be better to talk by phone 

6)  Can you also tell us what lab you are with and what your infrastructure
is if you can share those details?

 

Feel free to call me directly.

 

Kevin Cleary

Georgetown University

202 687 8253

 

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[mailto:igstk-users-bounces at public.kitware.com] On Behalf Of Tony Turner
Sent: Sunday, June 14, 2009 2:20 PM
To: igstk-users at public.kitware.com
Subject: [IGSTK-Users] real-time intra-operative 3D ultrasound research
project

 

Greetings;

I am looking for a bit of guidance regarding 3D ultrasound support within
IGSTK/VTK/VTKEdge/ITK's open source software.

Summary:
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.

My questions are these:
1) Can anyone point me in the direction of someone who already produces the
US equipment as described below?

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 ):
      a) a real-time 3D dataset from the US hardware from item #1 ? ( assume
US hardware calibration is a separate project )
      b) 2D orthogonal slices from the 3D dataset from item #2a ? ( simple
real-time display, no registering with CT/MR, etc. )
      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..)

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?

Details:
The sofware/hardware platform for the project is:
IGSTK / VTK / VTKEdge / ITK / 3DSlicer, open source
Desktop CPU
AMD Athlon X2 4200 Dual core
Ubuntu 9.04 ( latest greatest )
NVIDIA 9500 GT GPU ( CUDA compliant ). 

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