Abstract #4432

Development of a Patient-Specific, Three-Dimensional, Heterogeneous, Radio Frequency Thorax Phantom

Clifton Haider¹, David Holmes¹, Robert Sainati¹, Daniel Schwab¹, Daniel V. Litwiller², Desmond Yeo³, Barry Gilbert¹

¹Biomedical Engineering, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, United States; ²Global Applied Science Laboratory, GE Healthcare, Rochester, MN, United States; ³GE Global Research, GE, Niskayuna, NY, United States

Methods were developed to create phantoms with specific and highly repeatable conductivity and permittivity matching those of desired tissue. Numerical models results were highly similar with experimental results. Complex 3D organ models accurately represented the target anatomy and RF material properties.