# Using Ge Vscan Extend

**URL:** <https://discourse.slicer.org/t/using-ge-vscan-extend/39469>\
**Category:** Support\
**Created:** [October 1, 2024, 10:02am UTC](https://discourse.slicer.org/t/using-ge-vscan-extend/39469 "2024-10-01T10:02:45Z")\
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**Author:** ![ruben99999](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/discourse.slicer.org/ruben99999/32/78089_2.png) [@ruben99999](https://discourse.slicer.org/u/ruben99999)\
**Post date:** [October 1, 2024, 10:02am UTC](https://discourse.slicer.org/t/using-ge-vscan-extend/39469/1 "2024-10-01T10:02:46Z")

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Hello, I am a biomedical engineering graduate student, and for my master’s thesis project, I need to use the GE Vscan Extend ultrasound probe along with the NDI Aurora tracking system. What is required of me is to use the ultrasound probe to stream real-time images, while simultaneously using the NDI reference to track the probe itself. I have already watched several tutorials and I have a few questions to ask you:  
1)Is it possible to use the FCAL application only for temporal calibration? If the answer is yes, once performed, how can I save it (I also need to perform the Stylus calibration)?  
2) I need to use the reference sensor to track the ultrasound probe (i know it’s weird, but we don’t have other sensors) it’s possible?  
3)My setup is as follows: Reference and Stylus tool from NDI, a poor frame grabber (I think it’s Chinese) that works with a Media Foundation video capture device configuration file, and the GE Vscan Extend ultrasound probe, with the goal of displaying the ultrasound image in 3D Slicer in correspondence with a virtual liver model.

Thank you in advance for any clarifications.

PT

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**Author:** ![ruben99999](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/discourse.slicer.org/ruben99999/32/78089_2.png) [@ruben99999](https://discourse.slicer.org/u/ruben99999)\
**Post date:** [October 10, 2024, 12:45pm UTC](https://discourse.slicer.org/t/using-ge-vscan-extend/39469/2 "2024-10-10T12:45:24Z")

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Anyone have any suggestions?