Software / Hardware Integration for MRI-guided Robotic Prostate Intervention using Open IGT Link
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We propose a software and hardware integration strategy for MRI-guided robotic prostate intervention using an open network communication protocol. In the MRI-guided robotic intervention, the robot, navigation software and MRI scanner communicate one to another via Ethernet to exchange various data e.g. robot position, commands and MR images. Since the components were developed in the different sites including academic and industrial in our research partnership, establishing interoperativity among them with standardized communication protocol was essential in the collaborative development. As a key technology for the collaboration, we developed a new open network protocol called Open IGT Link. The specification of the protocol is simple enough for the developers to implement the interface to any kinds of software including embedded system, but extensible to transfer any types of data for image guided application in the standardized way. We report our system integration for MRI-guided robotic prostate intervention using Open IGT Link.
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