Tracked ultrasound based registration for skull base surgeries performed in the prone position.

• Telemed L12-5 ultrasound
• OptiTrack trackers
• NDI Polaris trackers

• Download and install an "OptiTrack-Telemed-win32" PLUS toolkit version
• Install the following extensions from the Slicer extension manager:
  • SlicerIGT
  • SlicerOpenIGTLink
• Add the ./extensions/AutomaticSurfacePointPlacement and ./extensions/USRegistration paths in the root of this directory to the Slicer additional module paths list.

• Start PLUS with the appropriate config file for your hardware setup.
• Wait to ensure PLUS launches with no errors.
• Open Slicer, and navigate to the USRegistration extension (under Registration --> US Skull --> Registration).
• Click on the "Start USRegistration" button.
• Follow the panels in the extension from top to bottom to perform a registration.

• OptiTrack configs haven't been tested with the latest versions of the source code

• Testing data: p drive: /home/shared/data/SkullRegistration/
• Data for deep learning: p drive: /home/shared/data/BoneContouring/

• Grace Underwood
• Abigael Schonewille
• Tamas Ungi
• Andras Lasso
• Mark Asselin