[vtkusers] Dental Panoramic View

[Frederic Perez]

Hello vktusers,

On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 4:53 AM, Karthik Krishnan <
karthik.krishnan at kitware.com> wrote:

> Not that straightforward. For the PanX, you'll have to reformat the
> image data along a curved reconstruction line that runs on the
> mandibular canal. I guess you'll have to estimate that curved path
> from your marching cubes result. You'll also have to estimate the
> thickness of the pan from it.. Or you could use a widget such as the
> contour widget to specify  the reformat line.
>
> We do have thick planar reformat, but don't have thick curved reformat
> capabilities in VTK, although it should be possible to add it with
> some effort.
>

FYI, it looks like MITK (the Medical Imaging Integration Toolkit) does
support curved MPRs
(http://search.gmane.org/?query=curved+mpr&group=gmane.comp.lib.mitk.user).
Perhaps it might help.

My two cents,

Frederic Perez
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