Real-time 3D Ultrasonic Needle Tracking with a Photoacoustic Beacon

Data and Python scripts for the creation of results figures presented in the preprint https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2511.20514.

Christian Baker¹, Weidong Liang¹ , Richard Colchester², Peng Lei³, Francois Joubert¹, Sebastien Ourselin¹, Simeon West⁴, Adrien Desjardins², Athanasios Diamantopoulos⁵, Wenfeng Xia¹

¹School of Biomedical Engineering and Imaging Sciences, King’s College London, London, SE1 7EU, UK.
²Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering, University College London, London, WC1E 6BT, UK.
³3GBA Institute of Collaborative Innovation, Guangzhou, China.
⁴University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, London, NW1 2BU, UK.
⁵Guys and St Thomas’ NHS Trust, London, SE1 7EH, UK.

Data files and source code for each result figure in the paper can be found in the src directory.

To recreate the figures:

• Clone the repository
• Navigate to the project directory
• pip install -e in a Python 3.12 environment
• Install LaTeX and add it to your Python os.environ['PATH']
• Run the individual scripts in /src