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Open source electromagnetic trackers are trackers that have designs publicly available. [[Peter Traneus Anderson]] has made contributions in this area.
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==Pages==
[[Image:Dry_elphel_model_1_rcvr_coils.jpg]]
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[[Electromagnetic tracking system]]
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In the photo, each of the three receiver coils is ten millimeters long, and is a
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[[5DOF Electromagnetic Tracker Notes]]
[[http://www.sonion.com Sonion]] T 20 AG telecoil usually used in hearing aids.
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==Key Personnel==
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* [[User:Traneus | Peter Traneus Anderson]]
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* [[User:Tkapur | Tina Kapur]]
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* [[User:SPujol | Sonia Pujol]]
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==Goals of the Project==
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To teach the process of developing electromagnetic trackers for research, to foster an open community of researchers developing electromagnetic trackers, to develop open-source software and open-source hardware for working research electromagnetic trackers interfacing to Slicer through [[OpenIGTLink|OpenIGTLink]].
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==Current Progress==
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[[2014_Summer_Project_Week:Open_source_electromagnetic_trackers_usingOpenIGTLink | 2014 Summer Project Week]]
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[[6DOF_Electromagnetic_Tracker_Construction_HOWTO|6DOF Electromagnetic Tracker Construction HOWTO]]
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[[5DOF_Electromagnetic_Tracker_Notes|5DOF Electromagnetic Tracker Notes]]
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Pete's current efforts are towards developing low-cost coil-characterization methods which make sense electromagnetically, aiming for a published paper. Pete has yet to encounter a paper which covers this topic.
      
==References==
 
==References==
 
* https://github.com/traneus/emtrackers
 
* https://github.com/traneus/emtrackers
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* http://www.hackster.io/plume/plume http://rose.eu.org/2014/tag/plume a dead 6DOF EM tracker project.
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* http://www.hackster.io/plume/plume http://rose.eu.org/2014/tag/plume a 6DOF EM tracker project.
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* Project started at [[2011_Summer_project_Week_Open_Source_Electromagnetic_Trackers_using_OpenIGTLink| 2011 Summer Project Week]]
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* Frederick H. Raab, Ernest B. Blood, Terry O. Steiner, Herbert R. Jones, "Magnetic Position and Orientation Tracking System", IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic systems, Vol. AES-15, No. 4, September 1979, pages 709-718. Iterative solution for 6DOF tracker. Includes sensitivity matrix of magnetic couplings partial derivatives with respect to position and orientation changes.
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*Frederick H. Raab, Ernest B. Blood, Terry O. Steiner, Herbert R. Jones, "Magnetic Position and Orientation Tracking System", IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic systems, Vol. AES-15, No. 4, September 1979, pages 709-718. Iterative solution for 6DOF tracker. Includes sensitivity matrix of magnetic couplings partial derivatives with respect to position and orientation changes.
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* Frederick H. Raab, "Quasi-Static Magnetic-Field Technique for Determining Position and Orientation", IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, Vol. GE-19, No. 4, October 1981, pages 235-243. Direct solution for 6DOF tracker.
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*Frederick H. Raab, "Quasi-Static Magnetic-Field Technique for Determining Position and Orientation", IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, Vol. GE-19, No. 4, October 1981, pages 235-243. Direct solution for 6DOF tracker.
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* {{cite journal | last=Schroeder | first=Tobias | title=An accurate magnetic field solution for medical electromagnetic tracking coils at close range | journal=Journal of Applied Physics | publisher=AIP Publishing | volume=117 | issue=22 | date=2015-06-12 | issn=0021-8979 | doi=10.1063/1.4922667 | page=}}
 
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*Tobias Schroeder, "An accurate magnetic field solution for medical electromagnetic tracking coils at close range", Journal of Applied Physics 117, 224504 (2015). Current-sheet model for cubical coils.
      
*C.A. Nafis, V. Jensen, L. Beauregard, P.T. Anderson, "Method for estimating dynamic EM tracking accuracy of Surgical Navigation tools", SPIE Medical Imaging Proceedings, 2006. Reports low-cost accuracy-measuring techniques and results for various trackers.
 
*C.A. Nafis, V. Jensen, L. Beauregard, P.T. Anderson, "Method for estimating dynamic EM tracking accuracy of Surgical Navigation tools", SPIE Medical Imaging Proceedings, 2006. Reports low-cost accuracy-measuring techniques and results for various trackers.
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*Anton Plotkin, Vladimir Kucher, Yoram Horen, and Eugene Paperno, "A New Calibration Procedure for Magnetic Tracking Systems", IEEE Transactions on Magnetics, Volume 44, Number 11, November 2008, Pages 4525 to 4528. In-system coil characterization using just receiver positions on the plane closest to the transmitter, which makes electromagnetic sense.
 
*Anton Plotkin, Vladimir Kucher, Yoram Horen, and Eugene Paperno, "A New Calibration Procedure for Magnetic Tracking Systems", IEEE Transactions on Magnetics, Volume 44, Number 11, November 2008, Pages 4525 to 4528. In-system coil characterization using just receiver positions on the plane closest to the transmitter, which makes electromagnetic sense.
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==Citations==
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==References==
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[[Category:Electromagnetic tracking]]
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