Characterization and evaluation of tissue-mimicking gelatin phantoms for use with MRgFUS

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作者
Farrer, Alexis I. [1 ,2 ]
Odeen, Henrik [2 ,3 ]
de Bever, Joshua [2 ,4 ]
Coats, Brittany [5 ]
Parker, Dennis L. [2 ]
Payne, Allison [2 ]
Christensen, Douglas A. [1 ,6 ]
机构
[1] Univ Utah, Dept Bioengn, Salt Lake City, UT 84112 USA
[2] Univ Utah, Utah Ctr Adv Imaging Res, Dept Radiol, Salt Lake City, UT USA
[3] Univ Utah, Dept Phys & Astron, Salt Lake City, UT USA
[4] Univ Utah, Sch Comp, Salt Lake City, UT USA
[5] Univ Utah, Dept Mech Engn, Salt Lake City, UT 84112 USA
[6] Univ Utah, Dept Elect & Comp Engn, Salt Lake City, UT USA
来源
JOURNAL OF THERAPEUTIC ULTRASOUND | 2015年 / 3卷
关键词
Phantoms; Gelatin; MRgFUS; Tissue-mimicking;
D O I
10.1186/s40349-015-0030-y
中图分类号
R8 [特种医学]; R445 [影像诊断学];
学科分类号
1002 ; 100207 ; 1009 ;
摘要
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 (T-1 and T-2(*)), 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 degrees C for 125-bloom, 10.2 +/- 0.3 degrees C for 175-bloom, and 10.8 +/- 0.2 degrees 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.
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