Rat Phantom (Cylindrical) is designed to mimic complex rat anatomy in a form of a simple cylinder. It is a powerful tool that can be used for testing and calibration-related work of various medical imaging devices.
The cylindrical phantom has a 27mm diameter and 70mm height, which correspond to the dimensions of small animals (i.e. a laboratory rat/mouse.)
This small phantom is MRI, and X-Ray/CT compatible, and it can be customized in size and shape. The internal features can also be modified in terms of shape and properties to fit the needs of any particular bio-medical research project.
Anatomy:
• Soft Body Tissue – for better imaging results and optical transparency, we set this tissue to be transparent and to have no speckles.
• Organs without Speckles – those are organs which are softer than the surrounding body tissue. They appear brighter on T2-weigthed MRI images.
• Organs with Speckles – those are the organs with higher stiffness and density (i.e. muscles). They appear brighter on T2-weigthed MRI images.
• Cartilage Tissue – very stiff and much more attenuative tissue than the organs and body tissue. It appears darker on T2-weigthed MRI images.
• Soft Organs with Speckles – those are the softest organs in the phantom. They appear the brightest in the phantom on T2-weigthed MRI images (i.e. kidneys, liver, etc.).