A method was proposed in this paper to bend the orthopantomogram inages according to the curve which was fitted by the patientspecific dental arch for the 3D display of orthopantomogram images.Based on the study of the fitting method of dental arches, the β function was chosen to fit the patients dental arch. Four factors were considered in the curve fitting, they were the width of the patients molar, the depth of the molar,the width of patients tusk and the depth of the tusk.The OpenGL toolkit was used in this project to complete the texture generation,the surface rendering and the controlling of lighting and rotation.
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