Medical imaging phantoms are extensively used for diagnostic imaging, validation of surgical procedures and radiation oncology procedures.
3D printing has turned into a promising technology for producing medical imaging phantoms needed for equipment calibration, staff training, quality assurance, radiation therapy dosimetry, and evaluation and verification of advanced imaging techniques.
Ideally, the material used in such imaging phantoms should mimic the physical and imaging properties of human tissue as closely as possible. Solid 3D-printed materials have been widely proposed to mimic the radiodensity and signal intensity of soft tissue for various imaging modalities. However, realistic tissue mimiking printable materials, also including soft materials, are needed for imaging phantoms used for various scenarios where realistic physical properties and anatomical deformations need to be simulated, such as for motion-adaptive radiotherapy treatments, phantoms with respiratory motion for needle-based liver interventions, and phantoms for various needle-based surgical exercises. In addition, technical and biological complexities e.g., tissue architecture and vasculature design need to be simulated in imaging phantoms for some clinical applications. Bioprinting offers enormous opportunities that will lead in a new era of 3D printing technology and subsequently 3D printed phantoms for imaging. We envision that future medical imaging phantoms will incorporate not only imaging properties, but also more biological realism; identify advances in medical imaging phantoms, with a focus on the introduction of 3D printed materials and phantoms with mutual imaging and biological properties.
Papers from the field of medicine and biomedical engineering and technology that present the state of the art in medical imaging phantoms using 3D bioprinting technology are welcome. Topics include, but are not limited to, radiological phantoms for CT, MRI, PET, and ultrasound imaging.
Keywords:
3D bioprinting, radiological phantoms, CT, MRI, PET, Ultrasound, imaging characteristics, biological realism
Important Note:
All contributions to this Research Topic must be within the scope of the section and journal to which they are submitted, as defined in their mission statements. Frontiers reserves the right to guide an out-of-scope manuscript to a more suitable section or journal at any stage of peer review.
Medical imaging phantoms are extensively used for diagnostic imaging, validation of surgical procedures and radiation oncology procedures.
3D printing has turned into a promising technology for producing medical imaging phantoms needed for equipment calibration, staff training, quality assurance, radiation therapy dosimetry, and evaluation and verification of advanced imaging techniques.
Ideally, the material used in such imaging phantoms should mimic the physical and imaging properties of human tissue as closely as possible. Solid 3D-printed materials have been widely proposed to mimic the radiodensity and signal intensity of soft tissue for various imaging modalities. However, realistic tissue mimiking printable materials, also including soft materials, are needed for imaging phantoms used for various scenarios where realistic physical properties and anatomical deformations need to be simulated, such as for motion-adaptive radiotherapy treatments, phantoms with respiratory motion for needle-based liver interventions, and phantoms for various needle-based surgical exercises. In addition, technical and biological complexities e.g., tissue architecture and vasculature design need to be simulated in imaging phantoms for some clinical applications. Bioprinting offers enormous opportunities that will lead in a new era of 3D printing technology and subsequently 3D printed phantoms for imaging. We envision that future medical imaging phantoms will incorporate not only imaging properties, but also more biological realism; identify advances in medical imaging phantoms, with a focus on the introduction of 3D printed materials and phantoms with mutual imaging and biological properties.
Papers from the field of medicine and biomedical engineering and technology that present the state of the art in medical imaging phantoms using 3D bioprinting technology are welcome. Topics include, but are not limited to, radiological phantoms for CT, MRI, PET, and ultrasound imaging.
Keywords:
3D bioprinting, radiological phantoms, CT, MRI, PET, Ultrasound, imaging characteristics, biological realism
Important Note:
All contributions to this Research Topic must be within the scope of the section and journal to which they are submitted, as defined in their mission statements. Frontiers reserves the right to guide an out-of-scope manuscript to a more suitable section or journal at any stage of peer review.