TY - GEN
T1 - Fabrication of anatomically correct head phantoms based on processing of CT images with MATLAB and rapid prototyping
AU - Shi, Jiaxi
AU - Prochazka, Holger
AU - Markert, Mathias
AU - Gumprecht, Jan
AU - Lueth, Tim C.
PY - 2011
Y1 - 2011
N2 - This article describes the processing of computed tomography (CT) images with MATLAB for the fabrication of anatomically correct head phantoms. Such phantoms are applied for the verification of systems for image-guided interventions. For this purpose, a CT-image set of a patient's head has been read into MATLAB and the skin part (soft tissue between head and bone surface) and some bone parts were segmented separately. A number of positioning and connection elements were generated in both skin and bone parts for later assembly of the phantom. Finally, the segmented skin and bone parts have been converted into Stereolithography format (STL) for printing with a 3D printer. The complete process was successfully tested with a patient individual CT data set. Moreover, the accuracy of the added positioning and connection elements was measured. The preliminary results show that this MATLAB-based module is suitable for processing of CT image data for the fabrication of realistic anatomical phantoms.
AB - This article describes the processing of computed tomography (CT) images with MATLAB for the fabrication of anatomically correct head phantoms. Such phantoms are applied for the verification of systems for image-guided interventions. For this purpose, a CT-image set of a patient's head has been read into MATLAB and the skin part (soft tissue between head and bone surface) and some bone parts were segmented separately. A number of positioning and connection elements were generated in both skin and bone parts for later assembly of the phantom. Finally, the segmented skin and bone parts have been converted into Stereolithography format (STL) for printing with a 3D printer. The complete process was successfully tested with a patient individual CT data set. Moreover, the accuracy of the added positioning and connection elements was measured. The preliminary results show that this MATLAB-based module is suitable for processing of CT image data for the fabrication of realistic anatomical phantoms.
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/84860778744
U2 - 10.1109/ROBIO.2011.6181559
DO - 10.1109/ROBIO.2011.6181559
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84860778744
SN - 9781457721373
T3 - 2011 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics, ROBIO 2011
SP - 1850
EP - 1854
BT - 2011 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics, ROBIO 2011
PB - IEEE Computer Society
T2 - 2011 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics, ROBIO 2011
Y2 - 7 December 2011 through 11 December 2011
ER -