Development of patient-specific molecular imaging phantoms using a 3D printer

Medical Physics

Volumn 41, Issue 8, 2014, Pages

  Gear, J I ^a   Long, C ^a   Rushforth, D ^a   Chittenden, S J ^a   Cummings, C ^a   Flux, G D ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF CANCER RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

additive manufacturing; anthropomorphic phantom; CAD; quantitative imaging; Rapid prototyping

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; COST EFFECTIVENESS; MOLECULAR IMAGING; PHANTOMS; PRINTING PRESSES; RAPID PROTOTYPING;

ANTHROPOMORPHIC PHANTOMS; COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN SOFTWARE; GEOMETRICAL PHANTOM; PATIENT SPECIFIC; PRINT MATERIALS; QUANTITATIVE IMAGING; RAPID PROTOTYPING TECHNOLOGY; ULTRAVIOLET CURABLE;

3D PRINTERS;

FLUORINE 18; POLYACRYLIC ACID; TECHNETIUM 99M; FLUORINE; PLASTIC; RADIOPHARMACEUTICAL AGENT; TECHNETIUM;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER ASSISTED EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; COMPUTER PROGRAM; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; HUMAN; IMAGE DISPLAY; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGING PHANTOM; MEDICAL PHOTOGRAPHY; MOLECULAR IMAGING; PET-CT SCANNER; PRINTING; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; THICKNESS; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DEVICES; DIAGNOSTIC USE; IMAGE QUALITY; KIDNEY; LIVER; NEOPLASM; ORGAN SIZE; PERSONALIZED MEDICINE; PROCEDURES; RADIOGRAPHY; SPLEEN; THREE DIMENSIONAL PRINTING;

FLUORINE RADIOISOTOPES; HUMANS; INDIVIDUALIZED MEDICINE; KIDNEY; LIVER; MOLECULAR IMAGING; NEOPLASMS; ORGAN SIZE; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; PLASTICS; PRINTING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; SOFTWARE; SPLEEN; TECHNETIUM; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; ULTRAVIOLET RAYS;

EID: 84904437441     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.4887854     Document Type: Article

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