• Title/Summary/Keyword: Medical phantom

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Usefulness of Brain Phantom Made by Fused Filament Fabrication Type 3D Printer (적층 제조형 방식의 3D 프린터로 제작한 뇌 팬텀의 유용성)

  • Lee, Yong-Ki;Ahn, Sung-Min
    • Journal of radiological science and technology
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    • v.43 no.6
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    • pp.453-460
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    • 2020
  • The price of the Brain phantom (Hoffman 3D brain phantom) used in nuclear medicine is quite expensive, it is difficult to be purchased by a medical institution or an educational institution. Therefore, the purpose of present research is to produce a low-price 3D brain phantom and evaluate its usefulness by using a 3D printer capable of producing 3D structures. The New 3D brain phantom consisted of 36 slices 0.7 mm thick and 58 slices 1.5 mm thick. A 0.7 mm thick slice was placed between 1. 5 mm thick slices to produce a composite slice. ROI was set at the gray matter and white matter scanned with CT to measure and compare the HU, in order to verify the similarity between PLA which was used as the material for the New 3D brain phantom and acrylic which was used as the material for Hoffman 3D brain phantom. As a result of measuring the volume of each Phantom, the error rate was 3.2% and there was no difference in the signal intensity in five areas. However, there was a significant difference in the average values of HU which was measured at the gray and white matter to verify the similarity between PLA and acrylic. By reproducing the previous Hoffman 3D brain phantom with a 100 times less cost, I hope this research could contribute to be used as the fundamental data in the areas of 3D printer, nuclear medicine and molecular imaging and to increasing the distribution rate of 3D brain phantom.

Effects of Refraction of Ultrasonic Beam on B-mode Tomograms (B-mode 단층상에서의 초음파 빔의 굴절 영향)

  • 최종수
    • Journal of Biomedical Engineering Research
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    • v.2 no.2
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    • pp.141-144
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    • 1981
  • This paper descirbes about effects of refraction of ultrasonic beam on B-mode tomogram. Both compution based on Snell's law and the experiments performed using B-mode scanner and schlieren optical method are discussed on a circular phantom immersed in water. In these results, if the discrepancy of sound velocity is more than 0. 6%, the distortion of the B-mode image becomes conspicuous and a target beyound the phantom may disappear or displayed as two targets depending on the velocity of the phantom.

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The Theoretical Study of Absorbed Dose Distributions in Water Phantom Irradiated by High Energy Photon Beam (물팬톰에 조사된 고에너지 광자선의 선량 분포 특성에 관한 이론적 고찰)

  • 최동락;이명자
    • Progress in Medical Physics
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    • v.1 no.1
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    • pp.75-84
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    • 1990
  • We have claculated the absorbed dose distributions in water phantom irradiated by high energy photon beam. PDD (Percent Depth Dose) and Beam Profile can be represented by functions of depths and distances by using one dimensional model model based on transport theory. The parameters on scattering and absorption are evaluated by using non-linear regression process method. The values neeessary for calculation are obtained by simple experiment. The calculated values are in good agreement with the measured values.

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Analysis of Tubular Structures in Medical Imaging

  • Kim, Jin-Woo
    • Journal of information and communication convergence engineering
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    • v.7 no.4
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    • pp.545-550
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    • 2009
  • A method fully utilizing multiscale line filter responses is presented to estimate the point spread function(PSF) of a CT scanner and diameters of small tubular structures based on the PSF. The estimation problem is formulated as a least square fitting of a sequence of multiscale responses obtained at each medical axis point to the precomputed multiscale response curve for the ideal line model. The method was validated through phantom experiments and demonstrated through phantom experiments and demonstrated to accurately measure small-diameter structures which are significantly overestimated by conventional methods based on the full width half maximum(FWHM) and zero-crossing edge detection.

Dose Evaluation of Three-Dimensional Small Animal Phantom with Film Dosimetry (필름계측을 이용한 3차원 소동물 팬텀의 선량평가)

  • Han, Su Chul;Park, Seungwoo
    • Journal of radiological science and technology
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    • v.40 no.1
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    • pp.87-92
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    • 2017
  • The weight of small animal dosimetry has been continuously increased in pre-clinical studies using radiation in small animals. In this study, three-dimensional(3D) small animal phantom was fabricated using 3D printer which has been continuously used and studied in the various fields. The absorbed dose of 3D animal phantom was evaluated by film dosimetry. Previously, the response of film was obtained from the materials used for production of 3D small animal phantom and compared with the bolus used as the tissue equivalent material in the radiotherapy. When irradiated with gamma rays from 0.5 Gy to 6 Gy, it was confirmed that there was a small difference of less than 1% except 0.5 Gy dose. And when small animal phantom was irradiated with 5 Gy, the difference between the irradiated dose and calculated dose from film was within 2%. Based on this study, it would be possible to increase the reliability of dose in pre-clinical studies using irradiation in small animals by evaluating dose of 3D small animal phantom.

Accuracy of Pulsed Doppler Ultrasound Velocity Measurements : In Vitro Flow Phantom Study (Pulsed Doppler 초음파속도측정의 정확도 판정 : 유동 phantom 연구)

  • Kim, Young-Ho;Min, Byung-Goo
    • Proceedings of the KOSOMBE Conference
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    • v.1994 no.12
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    • pp.153-156
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    • 1994
  • An in vitro steady flow experiment was performed in order to test the accuracy of velocity measurement obtained through a pulsed Doppler echocardiography. A flow phantom was designed for the use in a wide velocity range at a given flow rate. The results showed that the pulsed Doppler velocity measurement obtained in this flow phantom is accurate at low flow rates. However, ultrasound velocity measurement should be performed under a careful considerations of PRF and Doppler gain settings, especially at higher flow rates.

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