The Newborn Head (Dynamic) phantom is designed to be suitable for medical imaging of blood flow underneath the skull. The phantom is designed based on an average newborn head and is made out of realistic soft and hard tissue-mimicking materials suitable for Ultrasound, MRI, and X-Ray/CT applications. This newborn head phantom makes for a great tool for angiography training and applications. The skull pieces are individually cast from our realistic patented epoxy-based bone material. This phantom can be used with Barium-sulfate, Iodine-based, Gadolinium-based, Microbubble, and Iron Oxide-based contrast mediums.
In terms of MRI applications, the phantom tissues have realistic T2 relaxation time values, which makes this product the best fit for any T2-weighted MRI imaging methods. Very good results can also be achieved with proton-density imaging methods. The phantom can still be imaged with T1-weighted methods, but the T1 values are less realistic, and they are within the range of about 100 ms.
The phantom can be customized to fit a wide variety of biomedical applications.
- Based on an average Newborn Skull and Head
- Realistic Newborn Brain Tissue
- Complex Network of Small Brain Vessels
- Single Vessels with 3 mm Inner Diameter
- Single Vessels with 2 mm Inner Diameter
Technical Properties:
| Type of Tissue | Sound Velocity [m/s] | Density [g/cm³] | Hardness [Shore 00] | T2 [ms] | Speckles | Attenuation Measured at 2.25 MHz [dB/cm] |
| Cortical Bone | 3000 ± 30 | 2.31 | N/A | N/A | N/A | 6.4 ± 0.3 |
| Trabecular Bone | 2800 ± 50 | 2.03 | N/A | N/A | N/A | 21 ± 2 |
| Brain Matter | 1400 ± 10 | 0.99 | 20 | 70 | YES | 1.0 ± 0.2 |
| Soft Tissue | 1400 ± 10 | 1.01 | 35 | N/A | NO | 1.3 ± 0.2 |
| Thermal Properties of Bone-Mimicking Tissue | |||||
| Thermal Conductivity | Volumetric Specific Heat Capacity | Thermal Diffusivity | Thermal Resistivity | Specific Heat | Speed of Sound |
| 0.776 W/ m K | 1.040 MJ/ m^3 K | 0.746 mm^2/ s | 1.289 m K/ W | 0.978 J/ g Deg Celsius | 3070 m/s |
| HU Values of the Tissue-Mimicking Materials | ||
| S.No. | Tissue Type | HU Value (average) |
| 1 | Brain Tissue | -25 |
| 2 | Cortical Bone | 1300 |
View our technical properties, thermal properties of bone-mimicking tissue, and HU values of the tissue-mimicking material in the tables accessible through the button below.
Newborn Head (Dynamic) Phantom
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Phantom:
- Size: 5 x 6 x 5 Inches
- Weight: 4 Lbs (approx.)
Shipment:
- Size: 12 x 10 x 10 Inches
- Weight: 8 Lbs (approx.)
Soft tissue and organs: Composition of urethane-based soft resin
Synthetic bones: Patented ceramic-reinforced epoxy-based composite material
