Modules:NeuroNav-Documentation-3.4

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Module Name

NeuroNav

General Information

Module Type & Category

Type: Interactive

Category: Image Guided Therapy (IGT)

Authors, Collaborators & Contact

• Haiying Liu, SPL
• Noby Hata, SPL
• Contact: Haiying Liu, hliu@bwh.harvard.edu

Module Description

This is a neurosurgical navigation system.

Usage

• Patient to image registration
  • This is landmark registration. Register the patient coordinate system to the image coordinate system in Slicer3.
  • Find 4-6 fiducials (well spread) on the patient's head.
  • For each fiducial, find its patient coordinate (using a tracking device) and image coordinate in Slicer3. Input this point pair into NeuroNav module. Repeat the same process for all selected fiducials.
  • It's easy to remove one or all point pairs.
  • It's also easy to reset any registration used.
• Surgical navigation
  • Locator Display
    • Choose a transform node.
    • Check to show the locator.
  • Tractography Seeding
    • Choose a fiducial list.
    • Check to seed tractography by fiducial
  • Driver
    • Check Locator to drive the navigation by Locator, or the tracking device.
    • Check User to stop the navigation.
    • Check Freeze to freeze the display.
    • Check Oblique to re-format image along oblique planes.

Examples, Use Cases & Tutorials

• Tutorial about Slicer3 (using NeuroNav module) and BrainLab integration.

Quick Tour of Features and Use

• Registration: Register the patient coordinate system to the image coordinate system in Slicer3
• Navigation: Perform neurosurgical navigation

Development

Dependencies

NeuroNav is dependent upon OpenIGTLink module.

Known bugs

Follow this link to the Slicer3 bug tracker.

Usability issues

Follow this link to the Slicer3 bug tracker. Please select the usability issue category when browsing or contributing.

Source code & documentation

Follow this link to the Volumes source code in ViewVC.

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