TY - CHAP A1 - Herder, Jens A1 - Myszkowski, Karol A1 - Kunii, Tosiyasu L. A1 - Ibusuki, Masumi ED - Weghorst, Suzanne J. ED - Sieburg, Hans B. ED - Morgan, Karen S. T1 - A Virtual Reality Interface to an Intelligent Dental Care System T2 - Medicine Meets Virtual Reality 4 Y1 - 1996 SP - 17 EP - 20 PB - IOS Press CY - Amsterdam ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Myszkowski, Karol A1 - Herder, Jens A1 - Kunii, Tosiyasu L. A1 - Ibusuki, Masumi T1 - Visualization and analysis of occlusion for human jaws using a "functionally generated path" T2 - IS&T/SPIE Symp. on Electronic Imaging, Visual Data Exploration and Analysis III N2 - Dynamic characteristics of occlusion during lower jaw motion are useful in the diagnosis of jaw articulation problems and in computer-aided design/manufacture of teeth restorations. The Functionally Generated Path (FGP), produced as a surface which envelops the actual occlusal surface of the moving opponent jaw, can be used for compact representation of dynamic occlusal relations. In traditional dentistry FGP is recorded as a bite impression in a patient’s mouth. We propose an efficient computerized technique for FGP reconstruction and validate it through implementation and testing. The distance maps between occlusal surfaces of jaws, calculated for multiple projection directions and accumulated for mandibular motion, provide information for FGP computation. Rasterizing graphics hardware is used for fast calculation of the distance maps. Real-world data are used: the scanned shape of teeth and the measured motion of the lower jaw. We show applications of FGP to analysis of the occlusion relations and occlusal surface design for restorations. Y1 - 1996 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1117/12.234684 SP - 360 EP - 367 PB - The International Society for Optical Engineering CY - San Jose ER -