Patent ID: 8532255

Claim:
A method for preparing and presenting a panoramic visualization of a maxillary region, wherein a set of volume data representing the maxillary region of a patient is generated by a tomographic method, wherein the volume data comprises a plurality of individual volume elements, said method comprising establishing several horizontal cutting planes that intersect a jaw, and defining, within each cutting plane, a contour surface ( 1 ) of the jaw that is bordered by an inner contour line ( 2 ) and an outer contour line ( 3 ), defining focal curves ( 4 , 8 ) within the contour surfaces ( 1 ), determining a common development curve ( 9 ) from the focal curves ( 4 , 8 ) of the cutting planes that lie on top of one another, wherein the development curve ( 9 ) defines a development surface that has been set up optionally vertically, defining, starting from the development surface in each cutting plane, projection beams ( 10 , 12 ) that are perpendicular on the development surface and intersect the respective contour lines ( 2 , 3 ), defining, on the projection beams ( 10 , 12 ), integration intervals ( 11 ) on which information of the volume elements is integrated, and integrating to form one pixel of the panoramic visualization at a time.