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NousNav: A low-cost neuronavigation system for deployment in lower-resource settings
Étienne Léger1,2, Samantha Horvath3, Jean-Christophe Fillion-Robin3
1Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA. etienne.leger@mail.concordia.ca.
Purpose:
NousNav is a complete low-cost neuronavigation system that aims to democratize access to higher-quality healthcare in lower-resource settings. NousNav's goal is to provide a model for local actors to be able to reproduce, build and operate a fully functional neuronavigation system at an affordable cost.
Methods:
NousNav is entirely open source and relies on low-cost off-the-shelf components, which makes it easy to reproduce and deploy in any region. NousNav's software is also specifically devised with the low-resource setting in mind.
Results:
It offers means for intuitive intraoperative control. The designed interface is also clean and simple. This allows for easy intraoperative use by either the practicing clinician or a nurse. It thus alleviates the need for a dedicated technician for operation.
Conclusion:
A prototype implementation of the design was built. Hardware and algorithms were designed for robustness, ruggedness, modularity, to be standalone and data-agnostic. The built prototype demonstrates feasibility of the objectives.
