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Characterization and Evaluation of Tissue-Mimicking Gelatin Phantoms for Use with MRgFUS



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    Background: A tissue-mimicking phantom that accurately represents human-tissue properties is important for safety testing and for validating new imaging techniques. To achieve a variety of desired human-tissue properties, we have fabricated and tested several variations of gelatin phantoms. These phantoms are simple to manufacture and have properties in the same order of magnitude as those of soft tissues. This is important for quality-assurance verification as well as validation of magnetic resonance-guided focused ultrasound (MRgFUS) treatment techniques. Methods: The phantoms presented in this work were constructed from gelatin powders with three different bloom values (125, 175, and 250), each one allowing for a different mechanical stiffness of the phantom. Evaporated milk was used to replace half of the water in the recipe for the gelatin phantoms in order to achieve attenuation and speed of sound values in soft tissue ranges. These acoustic properties, along with MR (T1 and T2*), mechanical (density and Young's modulus), and thermal properties (thermal diffusivity and specific heat capacity), were obtained through independent measurements for all three bloom types to characterize the gelatin phantoms. Thermal repeatability of the phantoms was also assessed using MRgFUS and MR thermometry. Results: All the measured values fell within the literature-reported ranges of soft tissues. In heating tests using low-power (6.6 W) sonications, interleaved with high-power (up to 22.0 W) sonications, each of the three different bloom phantoms demonstrated repeatable temperature increases (10.4 +/- 0.3 deg C for 125-bloom, 10.2 +/- 0.3 deg C for 175-bloom, and 10.8 +/- 0.2 deg C for 250-bloom for all 6.6-W sonications) for heating durations of 18.1 s. Conclusion: These evaporated milk-modified gelatin phantoms should serve as reliable, general soft tissue-mimicking MRgFUS phantoms. [Description provided by NIOSH]
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  • ISSN:
    2050-5736
  • Document Type:
    Text
  • Funding:
    Grant
  • Genre:
    Journal Article
  • Place as Subject:
  • CIO:
    National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
  • Topic:
    Workplace Safety & Health
  • Location:
    North America
  • Pages in Document:
    9
  • Volume:
    3
  • NIOSHTIC Number:
    nn:20067347
  • Citation:
    J Ther Ultrasound 2015 Jun; 3:9
  • Federal Fiscal Year:
    2015
  • Performing Organization:
    University of Utah
  • Peer Reviewed:
    True
  • Start Date:
    20050701
  • Source Full Name:
    Journal of Therapeutic Ultrasound
  • End Date:
    20280630
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    urn:sha-512:bbb76f6bdcc5e430c453a7371429f90d6825fe422d29d33389849e63a645e81cdd2367b413961394560851ee6ea1570369495010ed88d8c9d9ed53f5069f9ba6
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