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 …

An exponential growth of computational phantom research in radiation protection, imaging, and radiotherapy: a review of the fifty-year history

XG Xu - Physics in Medicine & Biology, 2014 - iopscience.iop.org
Radiation dose calculation using models of the human anatomy has been a subject of great
interest to radiation protection, medical imaging, and radiotherapy. However, early pioneers …

Tackling standardization in fluorescence molecular imaging

M Koch, P Symvoulidis, V Ntziachristos - Nature Photonics, 2018 - nature.com
The emerging clinical use of targeted fluorescent agents heralds a shift in intraoperative
imaging practices that overcome the limitations of human vision. However, in contrast to …

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 …

Application of the 4-D XCAT phantoms in biomedical imaging and beyond

WP Segars, BMW Tsui, J Cai, FF Yin… - IEEE transactions on …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The four-dimensional (4-D) eXtended CArdiac-Torso (XCAT) series of phantoms was
developed to provide accurate computerized models of the human anatomy and physiology …

Additive manufacture of custom radiation dosimetry phantoms: An automated method compatible with commercial polymer 3D printers

M Leary, T Kron, C Keller, R Franich, P Lonski… - Materials & Design, 2015 - Elsevier
There exist significant opportunities for the improvement of radiation therapy procedures by
the development of custom dosimetry phantoms for training, quality assurance, and clinical …

An anthropomorphic thyroid phantom for ultrasound‐guided radiofrequency ablation of nodules

T Boers, W Brink, L Bianchi, P Saccomandi… - Medical …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Background Needle‐based procedures, such as fine needle aspiration and thermal
ablation, are often applied for thyroid nodule diagnosis and therapeutic purposes …

Challenges and advances in optical 3D mesoscale imaging

S Munck, C Cawthorne, A Escamilla‐Ayala… - Journal of …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Optical mesoscale imaging is a rapidly developing field that allows the visualisation of larger
samples than is possible with standard light microscopy, and fills a gap between cell and …

A critical review of connectome validation studies

T Sarwar, K Ramamohanarao… - NMR in Biomedicine, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Diffusion MRI tractography is the most widely used macroscale method for mapping
connectomes in vivo. However, tractography is prone to various errors and biases, and thus …

An abdominal phantom with anthropomorphic organ motion and multimodal imaging contrast for MR-guided radiotherapy

A Weidner, C Stengl, F Dinkel, S Dorsch… - Physics in Medicine …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
Purpose. Improvements in image-guided radiotherapy (IGRT) enable accurate and precise
treatment of moving tumors in the abdomen while simultaneously sparing healthy tissue …