8 · Reading modes

Eight modes read the same opened volume; switching between them never touches the data. Each mode has its own guide, written from clinical reading practice: not a feature list, but how a reader moves through a volume in that mode, which controls serve which question, and where the mode stops.

Chapter	Mode	What the view shows
8.1	MPR	What is here, in three dimensions: localize, follow across planes, measure in true mm, and present it. The default view; everything else is a specialization.
8.2	Grid	Show this whole region slice by slice at a glance, at a chosen spacing and any angle.
8.3	Pano	Survey the dental arch and jaws in one panoramic layout, then see any point in cross-section, including a traced mandibular canal.
8.4	TMJ	What does each condyle look like in sections corrected to its own axis, and how do the sides compare?
8.5	Reslice	Cut a fresh slice stack along any line or curve the fixed planes do not give.
8.6	Ceph	An overall skeletal overview in a familiar projected radiographic format, reproducible off the same scan.
8.7	Region	How large is this connected region by density, and where is it narrowest (the airway view)?
8.8	Stitch	Align and merge two scans of the same subject into one volume when coverage spans both.

Note. Every mode is navigation and visualization. The software moves the camera, reformats the volume, and reports geometry and raw density numbers; segmentations and traces are reader-drawn, and reformats show only what their geometry samples. The authoritative read is the reader's, on their own screen.