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 …

Virtual human models for electromagnetic studies and their applications

SN Makarov, GM Noetscher… - IEEE reviews in …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Numerical simulation of electromagnetic, thermal, and mechanical responses of the human
body to different stimuli in magnetic resonance imaging safety, antenna research …

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 …

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 …

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 …

Dataset of patient‐derived digital breast phantoms for in silico studies in breast computed tomography, digital breast tomosynthesis, and digital mammography

A Sarno, G Mettivier, F di Franco, A Varallo… - Medical …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Purpose To present a dataset of computational digital breast phantoms derived from high‐
resolution three‐dimensional (3D) clinical breast images for the use in virtual clinical trials in …

Advances in digital and physical anthropomorphic breast phantoms for x‐ray imaging

SJ Glick, LC Ikejimba - Medical physics, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Purpose With the advent of three‐dimensional (3D) breast imaging modalities such as
digital breast tomosynthesis (DBT) and dedicated breast CT (bCT), research into new …

Three-dimensionally-printed anthropomorphic physical phantom for mammography and digital breast tomosynthesis with custom materials, lesions, and uniform …

AH Rossman, M Catenacci, C Zhao… - Journal of Medical …, 2019 - spiedigitallibrary.org
Anthropomorphic breast phantoms mimic patient anatomy in order to evaluate clinical
mammography and digital breast tomosynthesis system performance. Our goal is to create a …

An update on computational anthropomorphic anatomical models

A Akhavanallaf, H Fayad, Y Salimi, A Aly… - Digital …, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
The prevalent availability of high-performance computing coupled with validated
computerized simulation platforms as open-source packages have motivated progress in the …

Performance evaluation of digital breast tomosynthesis systems: comparison of current virtual clinical trial methods

NW Marshall, H Bosmans - Physics in Medicine & Biology, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
Virtual clinical trials (VCT) have been developed by a number of groups to study breast
imaging applications, with the focus on digital breast tomosynthesis imaging. In this review …