Documentation/Nightly/Modules/VolumeResliceDriver

Introduction and Acknowledgements

This work is supported by NA-MIC, NCIGT, and the Slicer Community. This work is partially supported by NIH 1R01CA111288-01A1 "Enabling Technologies for MRI-Guided Prostate Interventions" (PI: Clare Tempany), P01-CA67165 "Image Guided Therapy" (PI: Ferenc Joelsz) and AIST Intelligent Surgical Instrument Project (PI: Makoto Hashizume, Site-PI: Nobuhiko Hata). Author: Junichi Tokuda, Laurent Chauvin, Tamas Ungi, Nobuhiko Hata Contact: Junichi Tokuda <email> tokuda@bwh.harvard.edu</email>

NA-MIC   NCIGT   SPL

Module Description

VolumeResliceDriver module allows updating a reslicing plane by a linear transform node. It is particularly useful for stereotactic surgical navigation, where position and orientation of surgical tools are being detected by 3D position sensor and imported to 3D Slicer; the module can reslice a volumetric image of the patient with a plane along the surgical tool and visualize the sectional image on 2D and 3D viewer on the 3D Slicer window. The module was originally developed part of 3D Slicer OpenIGTLink IF in version 3.x, and became an independent extension since version 4.x.

VolumeResliceDriver GUI

Use Cases

• Surgical navigation system with optical or EM tracking system
• Tracked catheter navigation
• Ultrasound-guided percunaneous procedure
  • See https://www.assembla.com/spaces/slicerigt/wiki

TUtorial

Please follow the OpenIGTLink IF Tutorial presentation file.

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References

1. Tokuda J, Fischer GS, Papademetris X, Yaniv Z, Ibanez L, Cheng P, Liu H, Blevins J, Arata J, Golby A, Kapur T, Pieper S, Burdette EC, Fichtinger G, Tempany CM, Hata N, OpenIGTLink: An Open Network Protocol for Image-Guided Therapy Environment, Int J Med Robot 2009; 5(4):423-34.

Information for Developers

Logo

The VolumeResliceDriver logo is designed by Tamas Ungi (Queen's University).