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. 2023:1403:281-301.
doi: 10.1007/978-3-031-21987-0_13.

Phantoms for Quantitative Ultrasound

Timothy A Stiles  1
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Phantoms for Quantitative Ultrasound

Timothy A Stiles. Adv Exp Med Biol. 2023.

Abstract

Tissue-mimicking materials and phantoms have an important role in quantitative ultrasound. These materials allow for investigation of new techniques with the ability to design materials with properties that are stable over time and available for repeated measurements to refine techniques and analysis algorithms. This chapter presents an overview of the history of phantoms, methods of creation of materials with a variety of acoustic properties, and methods of measurement of those properties. It includes a section addressing the measurement of variance in those techniques using interlaboratory comparisons. There is a wide range of existing tissue-mimicking materials that exhibit properties similar to those of most soft tissues. Ongoing work is part of the expansion of QUS as materials are developed to better mimic specific tissues, geometries, or pathologies.

Keywords: Attenuation; Backscatter coefficient; Phantom; Speed of sound; Tissue mimicking.

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