A Brief Review for Common Doppler Ultrasound Flow Phantoms

Sabri M Shalbi; Ammar A Oglat; Balid Albarbar; Fuzi Elkut; M A Qaeed; Ali Abu Arra

doi:10.4103/JMU.JMU_96_19

A Brief Review for Common Doppler Ultrasound Flow Phantoms

J Med Ultrasound. 2020 Jun 2;28(3):138-142. doi: 10.4103/JMU.JMU_96_19. eCollection 2020 Jul-Sep.

Authors

Sabri M Shalbi¹, Ammar A Oglat², Balid Albarbar³, Fuzi Elkut¹, M A Qaeed⁴, Ali Abu Arra⁵

Affiliations

¹ Department of Sciences Medical, Higher Institute Sciences Medical, Elkhomes, Libya.
² Department of Medical Imaging, Faculty of Applied Medical Sciences, The Hashemite University, Zarqa, Jordan.
³ Department of Sciences Medical, Faculty of Health Sciences, Elmergib University, Elkhomes, Libya.
⁴ Department of Physics, Faculty of Science, University of Jeddah, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.
⁵ Department of Medical Imaging, An-Najah National University, Nablus, Palestine.

Abstract

In this review, the flow phantoms and the wall-less flow phantoms with recognized acoustic features (attenuation and speed of sound), interior properties, and dimensions of tissue were prepared, calibrated, and characterized by Doppler ultrasound (US) scanning which demands tissue-mimicking materials (TMMs). TMM phantoms are commercially available and readymade for medical US applications. Furthermore, the commercial TMM phantoms are proper for US purpose or estimation of diagnostic imaging techniques according to the chemical materials used for its preparation.

Keywords: Doppler ultrasound scanning; flow phantoms; ultrasonography; wall-less flow phantoms.

Publication types

Review