Design and fabrication of a realistic anthropomorphic heterogeneous head phantom for MR purposes.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

The purpose of this study is to design an anthropomorphic heterogeneous head phantom that can be used for MRI and other electromagnetic applications.

Materials and methods

An eight compartment, physical anthropomorphic head phantom was developed from a 3T MRI dataset of a healthy male. The designed phantom was successfully built and preliminarily evaluated through an application that involves electromagnetic-tissue interactions: MRI (due to it being an available resource). The developed phantom was filled with media possessing electromagnetic constitutive parameters that correspond to biological tissues at ~297 MHz. A preliminary comparison between an in-vivo human volunteer (based on whom the anthropomorphic head phantom was created) and various phantoms types, on

SUBMITTER: Wood S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5555696 | biostudies-literature | 2017

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature