Abstract #2034

Novel Anisotropic Diffusion MRI Phantom

Michal E. Komlosh¹, Evren Ozarslan¹, Martin J. Lizak², Ferenc Horkay¹, Raisa Z. Freidlin³, Peter J. Basser¹

¹STBB,PPITS,NICHD,NIH, Bethesda, MD, United States; ²NMRF,NINDS,NIH, Bethesda, MD, United States; ³CIT,NIH, Bethesda, MD, United States

A novel anisotropic diffusion MRI phantom was developed, which consists of stacked wafers of glass capillary arrays having different pore diameters. This phantom is intended to provide a gold standard to test diffusion MRI methods. We have demonstrated its applicability using DTI and D-PFG MRI experiments.