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@ARTICLE{Weidner:178646,
author = {A. Weidner$^*$ and C. Stengl$^*$ and F. Dinkel$^*$ and S.
Dorsch$^*$ and C. Murillo$^*$ and S. Seeber$^*$ and R.
Gnirs$^*$ and A. Runz$^*$ and G. Echner$^*$ and C. P.
Karger$^*$ and O. Jaekel$^*$},
title = {{A}n abdominal phantom with anthropomorphic organ motion
and multimodal imaging contrast for {MR}-guided
radiotherapy.},
journal = {Physics in medicine and biology},
volume = {67},
number = {4},
issn = {0031-9155},
address = {Bristol},
publisher = {IOP Publ.},
reportid = {DKFZ-2022-00175},
pages = {045009},
year = {2022},
note = {#EA:E040#LA:E040# / 2022 Feb 11;67(4) 045009},
abstract = {Improvements in image-guided-radiotherapy (IGRT) enable
accurate and precise radiotherapy treatments of moving
tumors in the abdomen while simultaneously sparing healthy
tissue. However, the lack of validation tools for newly
developed IGRT hybrid devices such as MR-Linac is an open
issue. This study presents an abdominal phantom with
respiratory organ motion and multimodal imaging contrast to
perform end-to-end tests in IGRT. The abdominal phantom
contains anatomically shaped liver and kidney models made of
Ni-DTPA and KCl-doped agarose mixtures that can be
reproducibly positioned within the phantom. Organ models are
wrapped in foil to avoid ion exchange with the surrounding
agarose-based fatty tissue and to allow stable imaging
contrast. Breathing motion is realized by a diaphragm
connected to an actuator that is hydraulically controlled
via a programmable logic controller (PLC). With this system,
artificial and patient-specific breathing patterns can be
carried out. In 1.5 and 3 T magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)
and computed tomography (CT) series, diaphragm, liver and
kidney motion was measured and compared to the breathing
motion of a healthy male volunteer for different breathing
amplitudes including shallow, normal and deep breathing. The
constructed abdominal phantom demonstrated tissue-equivalent
contrast in CT as well as in MRI. T1-weighted (T1w) and
T2-weighted (T2w) relaxation times and CT-numbers were 552.9
ms, 48.2 ms and 48.8 HU (liver) and 950.42 ms, 79 ms and
28.2 HU (kidney), respectively. These values were stable for
more than one month. Extracted breathing motion from a
healthy volunteer revealed a liver to diaphragm motion ratio
(LDMR) of 64.4 $\%$ and a kidney to diaphragm motion ratio
(KDMR) of 30.7 $\%.$ Well-comparable values were obtained
for the phantom (LDMR: 65.5 $\%,$ KDMR: 27.5 $\%).$ The
abdominal phantom demonstrated anthropomorphic imaging
contrast and physiological motion pattern in MRI and CT.
This allows for wide use in the validation of IGRT.},
keywords = {Abdominal breathing phantom (Other) / Image-guided
radiotherapy (Other) / anthropomorphic image contrast
(Other) / intrafractional breathing motion (Other) /
magnetic resonance-guided radiotherapy (Other)},
cin = {E040 / E010},
ddc = {530},
cid = {I:(DE-He78)E040-20160331 / I:(DE-He78)E010-20160331},
pnm = {315 - Bildgebung und Radioonkologie (POF4-315)},
pid = {G:(DE-HGF)POF4-315},
typ = {PUB:(DE-HGF)16},
pubmed = {pmid:35081516},
doi = {10.1088/1361-6560/ac4ef8},
url = {https://inrepo02.dkfz.de/record/178646},
}