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3D printed human skull phantoms for transcranial photoacoustic imaging

Medical Physics 2025-02-18 v1
Authors: Hannah Linde , Saskia Menzer , Jan Laufer , Thomas Kirchner
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Abstract

Photoacoustic (PA) waves are strongly distorted and attenuated in skull bone. To study these effects on PA imaging, we designed and 3D-printed tissue-mimicking phantoms of human skull. We present a comparison of results in phantom and ex vivo skull.

Keywords

photoacoustic imaging skull phantom 3D printing tissue-mimicking materials transcranial imaging

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@article{arxiv.2502.10910,
  title  = {3D printed human skull phantoms for transcranial photoacoustic imaging},
  author = {Hannah Linde and Saskia Menzer and Jan Laufer and Thomas Kirchner},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2502.10910},
  year   = {2025}
}

Comments

submitted to European Conferences on Biomedical Optics (2025); Open Data at doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14876160

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