Because of the model’s scale, Moore had to separate the print into four separate parts, which were assembled using a combination of soldering, friction stir welding and sandblasting. The phantom body was 3D printed over the course of 136 hours using a BigReg 3D printer. With these scans, she modeled a realistic female phantom that could be 3D printed from a bioplastic material and filled with water to mimic the density of a patient’s body.
No personalized full-body phantoms currently exist.”In creating Marie, Moore used 3D scans of five women’s bodies, captured at the Pennington Biomedical Research Center. “The issue is that most dosimetric models are currently made from a standard when people of all body types get cancer. “Phantoms have been used in medical and health physics for decades as surrogates for human tissue,” Moore explained. Marie, which weighs 15 lbs and can hold up to 36 gallons of water for eight hours, is reportedly the first of its kind in that it is the same size as an actual (albeit, short) person. Recently, Moore succeeded in producing the phantom model, which she named Marie.The 3D printed body, which measures in at five feet one inch in height, can be used to test radiation exposure to help determine the best angle for therapies or dose distribution. Measuring 5’1”, the 3D printed model is the first of its kind.About a year ago, LSU researcher Meagan Moore set out to create a phantom model that was not only shaped like a real person’s body but that was also the same scale.
Measuring 5'1', the 3D printed phantom model is the first of its kind Tess Boissonneault Janu1,025 2 minutes read Share6 1TweetSharePinBuffer39 SharesA researcher from the Louisiana State University (LSU) Biological and Agricultural Engineering department has 3D printed a life-sized phantom body for radiation therapy research and testing.
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