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 …

Additive manufacturing in radiation oncology: a review of clinical practice, emerging trends and research opportunities

R Tino, M Leary, A Yeo, E Kyriakou… - … Journal of Extreme …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
The additive manufacturing (AM) process plays an important role in enabling cross-
disciplinary research in engineering and personalised medicine. Commercially available …

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 …

3D printing methods for radiological anthropomorphic phantoms

N Okkalidis - Physics in Medicine & Biology, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
Three dimensional (3D) printing technology has been widely evaluated for the fabrication of
various anthropomorphic phantoms during the last couple of decades. The demand for such …

Advances and Applications of Three-Dimensional-Printed Patient-Specific Chest Phantoms in Radiology: A Systematic Review

J Silberstein, Z Sun - Applied Sciences, 2024 - mdpi.com
Lung cancer screening would benefit from low-dose CT protocols optimized by means of a
highly accurate three-dimensional radiation-equivalent thoracic phantom. However, whether …

Three‐dimensional printing of patient‐specific lung phantoms for CT imaging: emulating lung tissue with accurate attenuation profiles and textures

K Mei, M Geagan, L Roshkovan, HI Litt… - Medical …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Purpose Phantoms are a basic tool for assessing and verifying performance in CT research
and clinical practice. Patient‐based realistic lung phantoms accurately representing textures …

[HTML][HTML] The interlace deposition method of bone equivalent material extrusion 3D printing for imaging in radiotherapy

R Tino, A Yeo, M Brandt, M Leary, T Kron - Materials & Design, 2021 - Elsevier
Existing material extrusion 3D printing methods of bone-equivalent phantoms for Computed
Tomography (CT) imaging in Radiotherapy is limited by the geometrical inaccuracies and …

Quality management in radiotherapy treatment delivery

T Kron, C Fox, MA Ebert… - Journal of medical …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Radiation Oncology continues to rely on accurate delivery of radiation, in particular where
patients can benefit from more modulated and hypofractioned treatments that can deliver …

Quasi-simultaneous 3D printing of muscle-, lung-and bone-equivalent media: a proof-of-concept study

T Kairn, M Zahrani, N Cassim, AG Livingstone… - … Engineering Sciences in …, 2020 - Springer
Abstract 3D printing is a promising solution for the production of bespoke phantoms and
phantom components, for radiotherapy dosimetry and quality assurance (QA) purposes. This …

Accurate replication of soft and bone tissues with 3D printing

N Okkalidis, G Marinakis - Medical Physics, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Purpose The fabrication of a realistic patient‐specific skull phantom employing for the first
time a new filament extrusion rate method, for the accurate replication of soft and bone …