Attendants: Latifa Omary, Jörg Traub, Tobias Sielhorst, Philipp Stefan

Minute Taker: Philipp Stefan

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Tops

1. Introduction to TWiki
2. Field of application
3. Visualisation
4. Implementation
5. Next meeting

Introduction to TWiki

• Jörg Traub gave us a short introduction to TWiki
• A summary of a text formatting commands can be found following the link TextFormattingRules found at the bottom of the page when changing a topic

Field of application

• a coarse description of the application area of our project was given by Jörg Traub and Tobias Sielhorst
• field of application will be the endoscopic assisted operation on the spinal column:
  • unstable fractures of the thoracic and lumbar spine
  • degenerative narrowing of the spinal canal
  • revision surgery, implant removal
• the access to the surgical object must be well planned to avoid possible injuries of major blood vessels, organs or nerve structures
• hence a CT scan is taken preoperatively, which is then used in combination with a C-arm CT device to find entry points for the endoscopic equipment

Visualisation

• visualisation of preoperatively acquired CT slice data using a HMD
• the slice displayed should be progressively selectable
• possibly provided visualisation techniques:
  • volume rendering
  • DDR (digitally reconstructed radiographs)

Implementation

• we will use C++ in conjunction with CAMPAR
• nearly everything needed to do visualization on HMD hardware exists within CAMPAR
• our task is to combine several modules to a new visualisation component
• code documentation will be done using doxygen

Next meeting

• presentation of a short abstract describing our project
• next meeting will be on 21.3.2005 at 10:00 in Pettenkoferstrasse