Tissue mimicking materials for imaging and therapy phantoms: a review

CK McGarry, LJ Grattan, AM Ivory, F Leek… - Physics in Medicine …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
Tissue mimicking materials (TMMs), typically contained within phantoms, have been used
for many decades in both imaging and therapeutic applications. This review investigates the …

Recent advances on the development of phantoms using 3D printing for imaging with CT, MRI, PET, SPECT, and ultrasound

V Filippou, C Tsoumpas - Medical physics, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Purpose Printing technology, capable of producing three‐dimensional (3D) objects, has
evolved in recent years and provides potential for developing reproducible and …

Virtual clinical trials in medical imaging: a review

E Abadi, WP Segars, BMW Tsui… - Journal of Medical …, 2020 - spiedigitallibrary.org
The accelerating complexity and variety of medical imaging devices and methods have
outpaced the ability to evaluate and optimize their design and clinical use. This is a …

3D printing approach in dentistry: the future for personalized oral soft tissue regeneration

D Nesic, BM Schaefer, Y Sun, N Saulacic… - Journal of clinical …, 2020 - mdpi.com
Three-dimensional (3D) printing technology allows the production of an individualized 3D
object based on a material of choice, a specific computer-aided design and precise …

DukeSim: a realistic, rapid, and scanner-specific simulation framework in computed tomography

E Abadi, B Harrawood, S Sharma… - IEEE transactions on …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The purpose of this study was to develop a CT simulation platform that is: 1) compatible with
voxel-based computational phantoms; 2) capable of modeling the geometry and physics of …

Advances in computational human phantoms and their applications in biomedical engineering—a topical review

W Kainz, E Neufeld, WE Bolch, CG Graff… - IEEE transactions on …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Over the past decades, significant improvements have been made in the field of
computational human phantoms (CHPs) and their applications in biomedical engineering …

X-ray attenuation of bone, soft and adipose tissue in CT from 70 to 140 kV and comparison with 3D printable additive manufacturing materials

X Ma, M Figl, E Unger, M Buschmann, P Homolka - Scientific Reports, 2022 - nature.com
Additive manufacturing and 3D printing are widely used in medical imaging to produce
phantoms for image quality optimization, imaging protocol definition, comparison of image …

Radiological properties of 3D printed materials in kilovoltage and megavoltage photon beams

OL Dancewicz, SR Sylvander, TS Markwell, SB Crowe… - Physica Medica, 2017 - Elsevier
Purpose This study evaluates the radiological properties of different 3D printing materials for
a range of photon energies, including kV and MV CT imaging and MV radiotherapy beams …

Physical and digital phantoms for 2D and 3D x-ray breast imaging: Review on the state-of-the-art and future prospects

A Sarno, C Valero, RM Tucciariello, N Dukov… - Radiation Physics and …, 2023 - Elsevier
Breast phantoms are a fundamental asset both in routine quality assurance programs and
for comparing scanner performance in 2D and 3D x-ray breast imaging. They also play an …

The advent of anthropomorphic three-dimensional breast phantoms for X-ray imaging

K Bliznakova - Physica Medica, 2020 - Elsevier
Anthropomorphic breast phantoms are both, computational and physical, anatomically and
radiologically realistic models of the human female breast, and are considered an excellent …