[Insight-users] Curved Planar Reformatting for Vessels

[Dan Mueller]

Hi all,

I am interested in visualizing vessels using curved planar reformatting 
(CPR): the vessel is stretched flat along the centerline and the 
surrounds deformed to accommodate.

Does ITK implement curved planar reformatting for 3-D images?

I have been unable to find any existing functions in ITK to achieve this 
easily. The itkExtractOrthogonalSwath2DImageFilter is close, but appears 
to only work on 2-D images. I suspect I might be able to use a 
deformable transform coupled with the itkResampleImageFilter, but 
obviously the difficulty is in specifying the transform kernel given an 
itkPolyLineParametricPath. Currently I am able to extract paths 
representing the centerlines, but I'm stuck as to where to go from 
there. Does anyone have any pointers / ideas?

Thanks for any help.

Cheers, Dan
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