Bake your phantom—low-cost recipes for dough-based, tissue-mimicking CT phantoms
Question CT phantoms are costly and complex, limiting accessibility for customized imaging studies. Can common ingredients from the kitchen be used to create tissue-mimicking phantoms? Findings The dough-based phantoms simulated radiodensities from -200 to 1200+ HU, enabling the simulation of various human tissue densities. Clinical relevance Affordable, anatomically accurate CT phantoms can be made from kitchen ingredients for training and research, as demonstrated with our liver CT phantom.
Authors
- Thomas Friedrich (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5907-4245)
- Florian Weiler (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5647-4577)
- Malte Maria Sieren (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3669-2892)
- Jörg Barkhausen (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8937-1198)
- Sonja Jäckle (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2908-299X)
- Roman Kloeckner (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5492-4792)
- Franz Wegner (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5969-3428)
Institutions
- University Hospital Schleswig-Holstein (DE)
- Fraunhofer-Einrichtung für Individualisierte Medizintechnik (DE)
- Fraunhofer Institute for Digital Medicine (DE)
- University of Lübeck (DE)
Publication Details
- Journal
- European Radiology
- Published
- 2025-08-04
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1007/s00330-025-11887-5
- Citations
- 1
- Primary Topic
- Advanced X-ray and CT Imaging
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.67