System Set-up for the Integration of

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System Set-up for the Integration of BrainLab,
BioImage Suite and Slicer3
Haiying Liu Surgical Planning Lab Brigham
Women's Hospital Harvard Medical School
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Acknowledgements
National Center for Image Guided Therapy NIH
U41RR019703
NEDO Intelligent Surgical Instruments Project
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The Team

• Haiying Liu, BWH
• Noby Hata, BWH
• Alex Golby, BWH
• Junichi Tokuda, BWH
• Steve Pieper, Isomics
• Xenios Papademetris, Yale
• Pratik Patel, BrainLab AG

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Outline

• Overview of the system
• Wire computers by router
• Configure BrainLab
• Configure BioImage Suite
• Connect BioImage Suite to BrianLab
• Connect BioImage Suite to Slicer3

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System Overview

• BioImage Suite is a bridge between Slicer3 and
  BrainLab.
• BrainLab sends tracking data and images to
  BioImage Suite on VVLink.
• BioImage Suite relays the data to Slicer3 on
  OpenIGTLink.

Slicer3
BrainLab
BioImage Suite
OpenIGTLink
VVLink
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Wire Computers by Router

• Power on the BrainLab system.
• Power on the computer running both Slicer3 and
  BioImage Suite.
• Power on the router.
• Connect the BrainLab system with the router
  with an Ethernet network cable.
• Connect the Slicer computer with the router
  with an Ethernet network cable.

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Wire Computers by Router

• Assign a static IP address for the BrainLab
  system.
• Assign a static IP address for the Slicer
  computer.
• Test the connectivity between the BrainLab
  system and the Slicer computer by using ping
  command in a command prompt (for Windows) or a
  terminal (for Linux) like
• ping ip-address
• make sure you have response from the other
  computer.

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Configure BrianLab

• On BrainLab interface (see next slide), get to
  Tools-gtVV Link. Activate VV Link by clicking the
  button in the middle.
• This may need a license.
• If VV Link is activated, you should see a
  square as the border for the button.
• Write down the password in the red oval. The
  password may not be always the same.

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Configure BrianLab
Left click this button to activate VVLink
Save this password for later use
(From Xenophon Papademetris, Yale University)?
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Configure BioImage Suite
Left click to bring Preferences Widget up (next
slide)?
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Configure BioImage Suite
1. Enable OpenIGTLink and VectorVisionLink
3. Left click to close this widget and then exit
BioImage Suite
2. Left click to save Preferences
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Configure BioImage Suite

• Start BioImage Suite again.
• Check and make sure both OpenIGTLink and
  VectorVisionLink are enabled. If not, turned them
  into Enabled.

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Connect BioImage Suite to BrianLab
2. Left click to bring the VVLink/OpenIGTLink widg
et
1. Left click the Neurosurgery button
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Connect BioImage Suite to BrianLab
Left click to bring up the VVLink Tool widget
(next slide)?
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Connect BioImage Suite to BrianLab
1. Left click to a new server (BrainLab system)?
2. Input the IP address of the BrainLab system
3. Input the password saved before
4. Left click to add server
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Connect BioImage Suite to BrianLab
1. The added server should be listed here. Make
it visible
2. Left click to connect
3. If the connection succeeds, on both sides, you
will see a confirmation message. Click OK button
to confirm.
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Connect BioImage Suite to Slicer3
Choose OpenIGTLink IF module and then click the
Connectors tab
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Connect BioImage Suite to Slicer3
1. Left click to add a new connector
2. Check it as server
3. Check it as active
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Connect BioImage Suite to Slicer3
1. Input the server (Slicer3) name or its IP
address and port number
2. Left click to connect
3. Confirmation message after pressing Connect
button