Comparing Technologies of Additive Manufacturing for the Development of Modular Dosimetry Phantoms in Radiation Therapy

Publikationstyp
Conference Paper
Date Issued
2020-09
Sprache
English
Author(s)
Wegner, Marie
Krause, Dieter
Gargioni, Elisabetta
Spallek, Johanna
Institut
Produktentwicklung und Konstruktionstechnik M-17
TORE-URI
http://hdl.handle.net/11420/8476
Citation
Transactions on Additive Manufacturing Meets Medicine (AMMM 2020)
Contribution to Conference
Additive Manufacturing Meets Medicine, AMMM 2020
In radiotherapy, X-ray imaging and dose quality assurance is often carried out using physical phantoms, which simulate the X-ray attenuation of biological tissue. Additive manufacturing (AM) allows to produce cost-effective phantoms that can easily be adapted to different purposes. The aim of this work was to compare mechanical and X-ray attenuation properties of a selection of AM technologies, machines, and materials. The average Hounsfield Units (HU) were measured by means of computed tomography (CT).