Introduction

Plus (Public software Library for UltraSound) is an open-source software package for tracked ultrasound image acquisition, calibration, and processing. Plus applications include complete end-user software applications for spatial and temporal calibration (fCal) and real-time data acquisition, processing and streaming (PlusServer). For building complete image-guided therapy applications you can use the 3D Slicer and the SlicerIGT extension.

Overview papers and presentations:

Download

Click here to download pre-compiled Plus applications releases.

Tutorials

The SlicerIGT website contains an extensive set of step-by-step tutorials for building image-guided therapy systems from readily-available components.

How to cite

Please cite the following paper when referring to Plus in your publication:

Andras Lasso, Tamas Heffter, Adam Rankin, Csaba Pinter, Tamas Ungi, and Gabor Fichtinger, "PLUS: Open-source toolkit for ultrasound-guided intervention systems", IEEE Trans Biomed Eng. 2014 Oct;61(10):2527-37. doi: 10.1109/TBME.2014.2322864

@ARTICLE{Lasso2014a,
  title = {PLUS: Open-source toolkit for ultrasound-guided intervention systems},
  author = {Andras Lasso and Tamas Heffter and Adam Rankin and Csaba Pinter and Tamas Ungi and Gabor Fichtinger},
  journal = {IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering},
  year = {2014},
  month = {Oct},
  number = {10},
  pages = {2527-2537},
  doi = {10.1109/TBME.2014.2322864},
  pmid = {24833412},
  url = {http://perk.cs.queensu.ca/contents/plus-open-source-toolkit-ultrasound-guided-intervention-systems}
}

License

Plus has a BSD-style license, which allows any kind of use for free. See more details in License.txt

More information

All information about the Plus project is publicly available at www.plustoolkit.org.
Register at github.com and visit the PlusLib GitHub page to submit messages, bug reports, feature requests, and get email notifications.
Information for developers on building Plus, adding new devices, or contributing can be found at github.com.

Additional resources

Plus 3D model catalog contains printable 3D models of tools and tracking fixtures.
pyIGTL contains a Python interface that can be used to receive send/receive live data from Plus in Python, and is installable using pip.
Plus Matlab Utils contains a MatLab interface to read data recorded by Plus and send/receive live data from Plus in Matlab.