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University of Kansas School of Medicine

1 ARTICLES PUBLISHED IN JoVE

Bioengineering

Construction of a Preclinical Multimodality Phantom Using Tissue-mimicking Materials for Quality Assurance in Tumor Size Measurement

Yongsook C. Lee^1,2, Gary D. Fullerton², Beth A. Goins²

¹Department of Radiation Oncology, University of Kansas School of Medicine, ²Department of Radiology, University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio

This paper describes in-house procedures of constructing a preclinical multimodality phantom made of tissue-mimicking (TM) materials for quality assurance (QA) of tumor size measurement in animal imaging modalities such as ultrasound (US), computed tomography (CT) and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI).