CustusX from SINTEF Unimed Ultrasound

We have developed an 3D navigation system for intraoperative use during minimally invasive surgical procedures. The system can also be used for planning the surgical procedure. This navigations system is called CustusX. CustusX's main features is to visualize 3D ultrasound data integrated with preoperative acquired CT (computed tomography or X-ray) or MR (magnetic resonance) images. With a positioning sensor attached to the surgical tools it is possible to track the position and orientation of the tools and let the tools control the visualizations. This means that e.g. corresponding CT and ultrasound slices are shown according to the position of the surgical tool. The 3D visualization is based on VTK. The registration and segmentation routines implemented is based on ITK.