A realistic deformable prostate phantom for multimodal imaging and needle-insertion procedures

Medical Physics

Volumn 39, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 2031-2041

  Hungr, Nikolai ^a   Long, Jean Alexandre ^b   Beix, Vincent ^a   Troccaz, Jocelyne ^a  

^a LABORATOIRE TIMC IMAG   (France)

^b GRENOBLE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (France)

Author keywords

deformable phantom; multi modal imaging; needle insertion; prostate; PVC

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC WAVE VELOCITY; CHLORINE COMPOUNDS; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; DEFORMATION; FORMABILITY; IMAGE REGISTRATION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NEEDLES; POLYVINYL CHLORIDES; STRESS-STRAIN CURVES; UROLOGY;

IMAGE GUIDED PROCEDURES; IMAGING CHARACTERISTICS; MECHANICAL CHARACTERISTICS; MULTI-MODAL IMAGING; NEEDLE INSERTION; POLYVINYL CHLORIDE (PVC); PROSTATE; STRESS-STRAIN RELATIONSHIPS;

PHANTOMS;

EID: 84861597769     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.3692179     Document Type: Article

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41. See supplementary material at http://dx.doi.org/10.1118/1.3692179 E-MPHYA6-39-023204 for supplementary material 1: detailed description of the various materials considered during the design of our deformable prostate phantom: agarose, gelatin, Zerdine, PVA-C, silicone gel and PVC. Also, supplementary material 2: detailed description of the experiments done to determine the storage properties of our deformable prostate phantom (with additional figures).