[vtkusers] vtkNDITracker, Polaris Tracking Devices

[David Gobbi]

Hi Lai,

Right now, I know of three places where the vtkNDITracker can be found
on the internet.

This is my official repository for the code, though it is stagnant until
the day when I finally have time to start working on it again:
http://github.com/dgobbi/AIGS

This is the copy that exists in the IGSTK sandbox (since the IGSTK
code for the Polaris and Aurora was originally based on vtkNDITracker):
http://public.kitware.com/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/Utilities/Atamai/?root=IGSTKSandbox

Finally, this is the SynchroGrab paper, which is from the last time that
I was actively working with the tracking code.  Unfortunately SynchroGrab
depends on proprietary 3rd party libraries from Ultrasonix and Northern Digital
and would need cleaning up to remove these dependencies:
http://hdl.handle.net/10380/1459

Unfortunately, apart from SynchroGrab there is not much that I can provide
as an example.  All the other examples that I have are equally complex.
There have been several other people who have used vtkNDITracker over
the years, so hopefully one of them will step forward and provide something.

 - David


On Thu, Mar 3, 2011 at 4:43 AM, khinwee <khinwee at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Hi All VTK users,
>
> i have a question regarding vtk. I am trying to reconstruct 3D ultrasound
> images from a series of 2D images,and i have a Polaris Optical tracking
> devices working together with the ultrasound machine while recording the 2D
> image slices. My idea is to synchronize the position orientation with each
> of the recording 2D images, before further reconstruct into 3D. I have my
> own coding to reconstruct into 3D images successfully. So my next steps is
> making vtk working together with tracking devices (for example Polaris
> Optical devices).
>
>
> I realize that there are a class vtkNDITracker.cxx from VTK. Anyone here
> having the examples how to use this class communicate with Tracking Devices
> (Polaris, or Polhemus, or other tracking devices)? Let say i have
> vtkNDITracker.Cxx and vtkNDITracker.h in hand already, but i dont know how
> to make it work with the tracking devices. It is better to have the main
> program examples for me to refer and calling these class special class.
>
> The only examples available online are all related to IGSTK. I cannot found
> any vtk examples on tracking devices in this forum. Please advise me, any
> help or suggestion are much appreciated. I stuck in this problem for a long
> time already. Thank you very much.
>
>
> cheers
> lai
>
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