Track images using Polhemus Fastrak electromagnetic tracker

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Hi,

We are working on tracking images with Electromagnetic Tracker (Polhemus Fastrak) using PLUS/Slicer. We have position data from the emt and images from ultrasound system:
Q How do we obtain real-time transform matrices from the tracker ?

I referred the link : https://www.slicer.org/w/images/e/ed/OpenIGTLinkTutorial_Slicer4.1.0_JunichiTokuda_Oct2012.pdf

But I would like to know how real time position/transform matrix can be obtained.

Thank you!

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@satvika,

I am actually quite curious about that system. Can you get coordinates (e.g., as pointLists, or continuous curves) from that device directly into Slicer?

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@muratmaga -

Yes, you can add the device to slicer using SlicerIGT and get the coordinate values from the EMT in real-time. These tutorials might be helpful: User tutorial | SlicerIGT

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I don’t see Polhemus tracker interface in the source code - PlusLib/src/PlusDataCollection at master · PlusToolkit/PlusLib · GitHub

How did you connect to the Polhemus tracker?
Have you implemented the interface and has not contributed yet to the Plus toolkit?