[IGSTK-Users] motion capture for tracking with Slicer 3d + PLUS

[Alvaro Gomez]

This people use mutiple Optitrack IR cameras to build a cheap and 
flexible system

García-Vázquez, V., E. Marinetto, J. A. Santos-Miranda, F. A. Calvo, M. 
Desco, and J. Pascau. "Feasibility of integrating a multi-camera optical 
tracking system in intra-operative electron radiation therapy 
scenarios." /Physics in medicine and biology/ 58, no. 24 (2013): 8769.

Marinetto, E., V. García-Vázquez, J. A. Santos-Miranda, F. Calvo, M. 
Valdivieso, C. Illana, M. Desco, and J. Pascau. "Optical Tracking System 
Integration into IORT Treatment Planning System." In /XIII Mediterranean 
Conference on Medical and Biological Engineering and Computing 2013/, 
pp. 37-40. Springer International Publishing, 2014.

I think Optitrack is not listed in PLUS but it is already integrated. 
Check with Plus people.
https://www.assembla.com/spaces/plus/subversion/commits/4225

Check also:
https://github.com/HGGM-LIM/BiiGOptitrack
that has an OpenIGTLink implementation in OptitrackServer

Best regards,
Alvaro

On 12/03/2015 12:34 PM, Yaniv, Ziv Rafael (NIH/NLM/LHC) [C] wrote:
> Hello Vlad,
>
> There are several companies that market tracking systems for medical 
> applications (optical or electromagnetic), though NDI is the dominant 
> player in this domain. A partial list includes:
>
> NDI (they also own ascension):
> http://www.ndigital.com/
> http://www.ascension-tech.com/
>
> ClaroNav:
> http://www.claronav.com
>
> Atracsys:
> http://www.atracsys.com
>
> Axios3D:
> http://axios3d.com/EN/index.html
>
> You also listed Medtronic Stealth Station. This is not a tracking 
> system it is a complete navigation solution which uses optical 
> tracking from NDI or medtronic's proprietary electromagnetic tracking.
>
> All of the solutions are a combination of hardware and software (at a 
> minimum a software API to interact with the device). NDI does the 
> computations on their hardware, claron does them on the host machine. 
> Both are equally good approaches.
>
> Other companies that sell optical tracking solutions not geared 
> towards medical:
> http://www.ar-tracking.com/
> http://www.optitrack.com/
>
> With regard to building your own tracking system using 2-3 off the 
> shelf video cameras, I would advise against this unless you don't 
> require robustness and reliability which means you are not taking it 
> into the clinical setting. Building a setup from scratch is not 
> trivial - for instance, the spatial relationship between your camera 
> sensors can change due to changes in temperature between the 
> calibration setup and usage setting. This will effect your accuracy.
>
>     hope this helps
>           Ziv
>
> p.s. Two additional pointers that may be of potential interest to you
>
> 1. A low cost commercial navigation system built using IGSTK and 
> MicronTracker http://nuclemed.com.ar/english/software/luti.php?id=1
>
> 2. A toy open source navigation system using a calibrated webcam 
> (monocular tracking) we developed with IGSTK: 
> http://yanivresearch.info/igiTutorial/igiTutorial.html
>
>
>
> From: Vlad <v.v.tereshchenko92 at gmail.com 
> <mailto:v.v.tereshchenko92 at gmail.com>>
> Date: Wednesday, December 2, 2015 at 11:14 PM
> To: "igstk-users at public.kitware.com 
> <mailto:igstk-users at public.kitware.com>" 
> <igstk-users at public.kitware.com <mailto:igstk-users at public.kitware.com>>
> Subject: [IGSTK-Users] motion capture for tracking with Slicer 3d + PLUS
>
> Hello.
> We are going to make a cheap and flexible surgery tracking system 
> based on 3d Slicer + PLUS.
> So we have a question about optical tracking for instruments during 
> operation.
> Now we are looking for motion capture software which can match 
> following requirements:
>
>   * Any compatible tracker device through OpenIGTLink interface.
>   * Any tracker device that are supported by the IGSTK toolkit, using
>     IGSTK's OpenIGTLinkTrackingBroadcaster application.
>   * Receiving values of transforms from 3D Slicer application
>
> We know about existing Generic pose tracking devices:
>
>   * Ascension electromagnetic tracking devices (and Ultrasonix SonixGPS)
>   * Claron MicronTracker optical pose tracker
>   * NDI Polaris and Aurora pose trackers
>   * NDI Optotrak Certus optical pose tracker
>   * Medtronic Stealth Station
>
> But can we do the same job alternatively by using 2-3 videocams + 
> appropriate software? Or the main function is in hardware?
>
> Thank You!
>
>
> -- 
> Best regards, Vlad Tereshchenko.
>
>
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