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Whole Body Phantom

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  • A unique, life size whole body phantom for CT provides a variety of educational application as well as visual evaluation in finding out optimal scanning conditions.
  • The phantom can also be used for plain X-ray, showing life-like images.
  • No metal parts or liquid structure are used.
  • Main joints have close-to human articulation, allowing various positioning for training.
  • The phantom can be disassembled into 10 parts.Improved shoulder joint system enables the model to take arm-up position.
  • Organs are anatomically correct and have appropriate HU numbers.
 
Patient positioning:
  • Shoulders: rotate through a full 360 degrees in the sagittal plane, approx. 180 degrees to side-ways.
  • Hip joints: rotate forward up to approx. 90 degrees, then abduct up to 45 degrees each.
  • Knees: bend up to approx. 90 degrees.
  • Elbows: bend up to approx. 90 degrees.
  • The phantom can be held in the supine frog leg position.
  • The limbs and head are detachable at joints and neck for wider applications.
  • The head supporter facilitates various head positions.

Internal Organs:Head and Trunk

        Synthetic skull                            Cervical vertebrae
        Brain                                             Vertebrae
        Clavicles                                      Ribs
        Sternum                                       Scapula
        Coxal bones                                Femurs
        Lungs with pulmonary vessels
        Liver with portal and hepatic veins
        Trachea                                        Pancreas
        Kidneys                                        Gallbladder
        Spleen                                          Aorta
        Cava                                             Ureter
        Urinary bladder                           Prostate
        Rectum                                        Sigmoid Colon
 
Original phantom materials:
 
        Radiology absorption and Hounsfield number approximate to human body.
 
Materials and features:
 
  • Soft tissue and organs: Urethane base resin (SZ-50)
  • Synthetic bones: Epoxy base resin
  • Joint attachments: Epoxy, urethane with carbon fiber
  • Screws: Polycarbonate
Soft tissue (SZ-50) material
Material Density g/cm3 Effective Atomic
Number
Electron Density
x10~23e/g
Elemental Composituion (wt%)
H C N O
Water 1.000 7.417 3.343 11.19     88.81
SZ-50 1.061 6.14 3.258 8.41 72.25 4.61 14.73
  Soft tissue Liver Kidneys
Hounsfield number (Approximation) -7 70 30
Density g/cm3 1.061 1.089 1.075
Set includes:
 
         1 whole body phantom PBU-60
             (separable into 10 parts)
             Synthetic skull, Cervical vertebrae, Brain, Vertebrae, Clavicles, Ribs, Sternum, Scapula, Coxal bones, Femurs, Lungs with pulmonary                    vessels, Trachea, liver with portal and hepatic veins, Kidneys, Gallbladder, Spleen, Aorta, Cava, Ureter, Urinary bladder, Prostate,          
             Rectum,  Sigmoid Colon are embedded.
        1 head supporter
        1 set of replacement joint connectors and screws (1 piece for each)
        1 flat head screwdriver
        1 set of sample X-ray films
 
Phantom size:
 
         approx. 165 cm height
 
Phantom weight:
 
         approx. 50 kg

Video

Whole Body Phantom

  • CT and X-ray Imaging skill
  • Patient positioning