# How to implement CPR (curved planar reconstruction) from centerline?

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**Category:** Support\
**Tags:** visualization\
**Created:** [December 10, 2019, 3:01am UTC](https://discourse.slicer.org/t/how-to-implement-cpr-curved-planar-reconstruction-from-centerline/9456 "2019-12-10T03:01:27Z")\
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**Post date:** [December 11, 2019, 8:00am UTC](https://discourse.slicer.org/t/how-to-implement-cpr-curved-planar-reconstruction-from-centerline/9456/7 "2019-12-11T08:00:55Z")

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Hi Andras,

Sometimes people end up having to scan coiled snakes, or fish that are in little jars. Depending on what they need to do with it, they may have to ‘straighten’ the specimen. Is there a way this CPR can be generalized for such use cases?

![](https://www.morphosource.org/media/morphosource/images/3/7/9/78366_ms_media_files_media_37923_preview190.jpg)

![](https://www.3ders.org/images2017/universities-3d-scan-20000-vertebrates-morphosource-digital-database-2.jpg)

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