Magnus Cinthio
Professor
Construction of an ultrasound phantom with micrometer-sized wall-less vessels
Author
Summary, in English
The development of new ultrasound imaging technologies that aim to resolve objects smaller than the conventional ultrasounds diffraction limit calls for new types of phantoms to evaluate these technologies. When it comes to vascular flow phantoms, this becomes challenging due to the difficulty of manufacturing phantoms with vessels smaller than 1 mm in diameter. Here we describe a novel manufacturing method to construct phantoms with micro-vessels with a size down to 88 μm using oil-based clear ballistic gel (Clear Ballistics, Greenville, SC, USA) as surrounding material. Clear ballistic gel is a long-term stable tissue-mimicking material with speed of sound around 1470 m/s.
Department/s
- Medical ultrasound
- Division for Biomedical Engineering
Publishing year
2019
Language
English
Pages
1209-1211
Publication/Series
IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium, IUS
Document type
Paper in conference proceeding
Publisher
IEEE - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Topic
- Medical Instrumentation (including Measurement Technologies)
- Radiology and Medical Imaging
Keywords
- clear ballistics gel
- phantoms
- ultrasound
- vessels
- wall-less
Conference name
2019 IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium, IUS 2019
Conference date
2019-10-06 - 2019-10-09
Conference place
Glasgow, United Kingdom
Status
Published
Report number
2019-October
Research group
- Medical ultrasound
ISBN/ISSN/Other
- ISBN: 978-1-7281-4597-6
- ISBN: 9781728145969
- ISSN: 1948-5727
- ISSN: 1948-5719