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A.A. Martinos Center / Wald group anthropomorphic phantom builder's Wiki

This Wiki is a resource for people who are constructing antrhopomorphic MRI phantoms developed by Larry Wald's group at the Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, Massachusetts General Hospital.

The basic principle is that improved anthropomorphic phantoms lead to better and faster development of MRI methodology with less use of healthy subject volunteers. This is both cost effective and ethical. Therefore we distribute our designs and ask only that you reference the appropriate paper and the source of the design.

The designs are available in CAD and STL files and are intended to be 3D printed. Most of the components are open source designs.

MGH Phantoms for download

• MGH_head_1
• MGH_head_2
• MGH_head_shoulders_1
• MGH_fetal_1

tips for 3D printing for phantoms

coming soon...

some links to papers about phantom making

[http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17659546 Design, Construction and Evaluation of an Anthropomorphic Head Phantom With Realistic Susceptibility Artifacts

[http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/3821466 New Polyvinyl Alcohol Gel Material for MRI Phantoms

[http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16148391 Tissue-mimicking phantom materials for narrowband and ultrawideband microwave applications

[http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22396226 A Novel MRI-Compatible Brain Ventricle Phantom for Validation of Segmentation and Volumetry Methods

[http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21866208 Heterogeneous Anthropomorphic Phantoms With Realistic Dielectric Properties For Microwave Breast Imaging Experiments

[http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22225325 An anthropomorphic polyvinyl alcohol brain phantom based on Colin27 for use in multimodal imaging