During hyperthermia, magnetite nanoparticles placed in an AC magnetic field become a source of heat. It has been shown that in fluid suspensions, magnetic particles move freely and generate heat easily. However, in tissues of different mechanical pro...
Central vascular access (CVA) may be critical for trauma care and stabilizing the casualty. However, it requires skilled personnel, often unavailable during remote medical situations and combat casualty care scenarios. Automated CVA medical devices h...
Tissue phantoms are important for medical research to reduce the use of animal or human tissue when testing or troubleshooting new devices or technology. Development of machine-learning detection tools that rely on large ultrasound imaging data sets...
Ultrasound (US) imaging is a critical tool in emergency and military medicine because of its portability and immediate nature. However, proper image interpretation requires skill, limiting its utility in remote applications for conditions such as pne...
This paper improves the accuracy of quantification in the arterial diameter-dependent impedance variance by altering the electrode configuration. The finite element analysis was implemented with a 3D human wrist fragment using ANSYS Electronics Deskt...
The production of anthropomorphic phantoms generated from tissue-equivalent materials is challenging but offers an excellent copy of the typical environment encountered in typical patients. High-quality dosimetry measurements and the correlation of t...
A polyacrylamide polysaccharide hydrogel (PASG) containing a nonionic surfactant of the polyoxyethylene nonylphenyl ethers series (NP14) has been adapted to the fabrication of a reusable cost-effective ultrasonic tissue-mimicking phantom for real-tim...
A polyvinyl chloride (PVC)-based tissue-mimicking polymer phantom was developed and mechanically characterised to replicate stiffness ranges relevant to breast elastography and to provide a controlled platform for evaluating shear wave elastography (...
With the continued development and rapid growth of wearable technologies, PPG has become increasingly common in everyday consumer devices such as smartphones and watches. There is, however, minimal knowledge on the effect of the contact pressure exer...
Medical imaging has allowed for significant advancements in the field of ultrasound procedures over the years. However, each imaging modality exhibits distinct limitations that differently affect their accuracy. It is imperative to ensure the quality...
Tissue-like phantoms are widely used as a model for mimicking the optical properties of live tissue. This paper presents the results of a diffusion reflection method and fluorescence lifetime imaging microscopy measurements of fluorescein-conjugated...
Synthetic phantoms that recreate the characteristics of biological tissues are valuable tools for systematically studying and comprehending physiologies, pathologies, and biological processes related to tissues. The reproduction of mechanical and opt...
This paper describes the construction of a system for the quasi-spectral determination of absorption and scattering parameters of animal tissue phantoms. Several tissue phantoms, including one reference and two modified for examination, were prepared...
Recreating cerebral tissue using a tissue-mimicking phantom is valuable because it provides a tool for studying physiological and biological processes related to tissues without the necessity of performing the study directly in the tissue or even in...
Breast ultrasound elastography phantoms are valued for their ability to mimic human tissue, enabling calibration for quality assurance and testing of imaging systems. Phantoms may facilitate the development and evaluation of ultrasound techniques by...
Fluorescence spectroscopy has been extensively investigated for disease diagnosis. In this framework, optical tissue phantoms are widely used for validating the biomedical device system in a laboratory environment outside of clinical procedures. More...
Currently there exists little knowledge or work in phantoms for the in-vitro evaluation of photoplethysmography (PPG), and its’ relationship with vascular mechanics. Such phantoms are needed to provide robust, basic scientific knowledge, which...
Ultrasound computed tomography (USCT) has emerged as a promising multi-modal imaging technique, yet standardized phantoms for validating its reflection-mode performance remain lacking, hindering system calibration and cross-platform comparison. In th...
Breast cancer is one of the leading causes of cancer death among women; to decrease the death rate for this disease, early detection plays a key role. Recently, microwave imaging systems have been proposed as an alternative to the current techniques,...
The reconstruction of viscous properties of soft tissues, and more specifically, of cervical tissue is a challenging problem. In this paper, a new method is proposed to reconstruct the viscoelastic parameters of cervical tissue-mimicking phantoms by...
Due to the increasing popularity of tattoos among the general population, to ensure their safety and quality, there is a need to develop reliable and rapid methods for the analysis of the composition of tattoo inks, both in the ink itself and in alre...
(1) Background: 3D printable materials with accurately defined iodine content enable the development and production of radiological phantoms that simulate human tissues, including lesions after contrast administration in medical imaging with X-rays....
The monitoring of body temperature is a recent addition to the plethora of parameters provided by wellness and fitness wearable devices. Current wearable temperature measurements are made at the skin surface, a measurement that is impacted by the amb...
Many efforts have recently concentrated on constructing and developing nanoparticles (NPs) as promising thermal agent for optical hyperthermia and photothermal therapy. However, thermal energy transfer in biological tissue is a complex process involv...
Background: Phantoms are essential in medical imaging, providing reproducible and quantitative means for system and protocol evaluation, image quality assessment, and dosimetry without patient exposure. Additive manufacturing enables rapid, accurate...
Additive manufacturing enables the rapid fabrication of radiographic phantoms for X-ray and CT imaging, supporting applications such as patient simulation, dosimetry, imaging protocol optimization, and quality assurance. Polylactic acid (PLA) and acr...
In this study, we developed an endoscopic hyperspectral imaging (eHSI) system and evaluated its performance in analyzing tissues within tissue phantoms and orthotopic mouse pancreatic tumor models. Our custom-built eHSI system incorporated a liquid c...
Over the last few years, a number of studies have quantified the role of radiomics, dynamic contrast enhancement and standard MRI (T2WI + DWI) in detecting prostate cancer; however, the aim of this paper was to assess the advantage of combining radio...
We review the state-of-the-art in bone and marrow tissue engineering (BMTE) and hematological cancer tissue engineering (HCTE) in light of the recent interest in bone marrow environment and pathophysiology of hematological cancers. This review focuse...
The development of new medical-monitoring applications requires precise modeling of effects on the human body as well as the simulation and the emulation of realistic scenarios and conditions. The first aim of this paper is to develop realistic and a...
Anthropomorphic CT phantoms are essential training tools for interventional radiology. Given the high technical demands and stringent safety requirements in this field, realistic CT phantoms are vital simulation tools that support effective hands-on...
To quantitatively evaluate the possible advantages of quantifying and differentiating various soft tissues using virtual monochromatic images (VMI) derived from different dual-energy computed tomography (DECT) technologies. This study involved four D...
In recent years, material extrusion-based additive manufacturing, particularly fused filament fabrication (FFF), has gained significant attention due to its versatility and cost-effectiveness in producing complex geometries. This paper presents the c...
Electromyostimulation (EMS) is an up-and-coming training method that demands further fundamental research regarding its safety and efficacy. To investigate the influence of different stimulation parameters, electrode positions and electrode sizes on...
Assessing the biomechanical properties of soft tissues can be useful because they are related to their pathophysiological state. This study explores the application of artificial intelligence (AI) to an Impact-Based Analysis Method (IBAM) to predict...
Studying transport processes in the brain’s extracellular space is a complicated problem when considering the brain’s tissue. Tests of corresponding physical and mathematical problems, as well as the need for materials with cheap but real...
Considerable exploration has been done in recent years to exploit the reported inherent dielectric contrast between healthy and malignant tissues for a range of medical applications. In particular, microwave technologies have been investigated toward...
Tissue-mimicking phantoms that accurately replicate human tissue are crucial for validating and optimizing elastography systems and developing new treatment methods. The use of waste-based fibrous structures has the dual benefits of waste reduction a...
3D printing technology has been extensively applied in the medical field, but the ability to replicate tissues that experience significant loads and undergo substantial deformation, such as the aorta, remains elusive. Therefore, this study proposed a...
Optical phantoms are used to validate optical measurement methods. The stability of their optical parameters over time allows them to be used and stored over long-term periods, while maintaining their optical parameters. The aim of the presented rese...
We produced an anatomically and dielectrically realistic phantom of the axillary region to enable the experimental assessment of Axillary Lymph Node (ALN) imaging using microwave imaging technology. We segmented a thoracic Computed Tomography (CT) sc...
Integrating sphere measurements are a well-established method for determining the optical properties of planar samples. In this study, the approach was expanded from slab geometry to cylindrical geometry illuminating the cylinder barrel, thereby demo...
A novel torsional wave sensor designed to characterize mechanical properties of soft tissues is presented in this work. Elastography is a widely used technique since the 1990s to map tissue stiffness. Moreover, quantitative elastography uses the velo...
A water-rich muscle-equivalent tissue-mimicking phantom within a polymeric matrix was experimentally evaluated through a multimodal characterization methodology to determine whether it reproduces the coupled dielectric–thermal behavior of hydra...
This article presents the development of an anatomical breast phantom for investigating the capabilities of microwave radiometry in assessing thermal processes in biological tissues. The phantom accounts for the heterogeneous tissue structure and hae...
In this paper, we investigate the use of fat tissue as a communication channel between in-body, implanted devices at R-band frequencies (1.7–2.6 GHz). The proposed fat channel is based on an anatomical model of the human body. We propose a nove...
To evaluate cross-platform measurement consistency and diagnostic threshold requirements in shear wave elastography (SWE), this study presents a robotically controlled, phantom-based validation framework to quantify and interpret inter-vendor variabi...
Non-invasive glucose monitoring has become a critical area of research for diabetes management, offering a less intrusive and more patient-friendly alternative to traditional methods such as finger-prick tests. This study presents a novel approach us...
Background: Different compositions of DSF/NaOH/IA-PAE/R. spp. composite particleboard phantoms were constructed. Methods: Photon attenuation characteristics were ascertained using gamma rays from 137Cs and 60Co. Absorbed doses at the location of an i...
Magneto-responsive textiles have emerged lately as an important carrier in various fields, including biomedical engineering. To date, most research has been performed on single magnetic fibers and focused mainly on the physical characterization of ma...
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