In various medical fields, a change of soft tissue stiffness is associated with its physio-
pathological evolution. While elastography is extensively employed to assess soft tissue …

Background: The choice of gelatin as the phantom material is underpinned by several key
advantages it offers over other materials in the context of ultrasonic applications. Gelatin …

Optical coherence elastography (OCE) is a functional extension of optical coherence
tomography (OCT). It offers high-resolution elasticity assessment with nanoscale tissue …

Significance: Tissue birefringence is an important parameter to consider when designing
realistic, tissue-mimicking phantoms. Options for suitable birefringent materials that can be …

Objectives With rapid advances in ultrasound‐guided procedures, there is an unmet need
for echogenic phantoms with sufficient anatomical details for artificial intelligence and …

The ultrasonic actuator can be used in medical applications because it is label-free,
biocompatible, and has a demonstrated history of safe operation. Therefore, there is an …

The ultrasound phantoms used to educate medical students should not only closely mimic
the ultrasound characteristics of human soft tissues but also be inexpensive and easy to …

Multimodal tissue-mimicking breast phantoms represent a useful instrument to validate the
experimental imaging systems, as biological samples are not always available for the …

Ultrasound technology is rapidly advancing diagnostics to study human internal tissue.
Ethics regarding scanning of human subjects led to the development of ultrasound …

Background Utilizing spatially and temporally uniform tissue-mimicking phantoms for
ultrasonic applications can facilitate the characterization of beam distortion and attenuation …