Patient-Specific Polyvinyl Alcohol Phantom Fabrication with Ultrasound and X-Ray Contrast for Brain Tumor Surgery PlanningEleanor C. Mackle *1,2, Jonathan Shapey *1,2,3,4, Efthymios Maneas 1,2, Shakeel R. Saeed 3,5,6, Robert Bradford 3, Sebastien Ourselin 4, Tom Vercauteren 4, Adrien E. Desjardins 1,2
1Wellcome / EPSRC Centre for Interventional and Surgical Sciences, University College London, 2Department of Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering, University College London, 3Department of Neurosurgery, National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, 4School of Biomedical Engineering & Imaging Sciences, King's College London, 5The Ear Institute, University College London, 6The Royal National Throat, Nose and Ear Hospital, London
This protocol describes the fabrication of a patient specific skull, brain and tumor phantom. It uses 3D printing to create molds, and polyvinyl alcohol (PVA-c) is used as the tissue mimicking material.
