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Clutter-Generating Phantom Material. Part I: Development of a Tunable, Acoustic Clutter-Generating Layer for Use With Ultrasound Tissue-Mimicking Phantoms.

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Flint, K; Huber, M; Long, J; Trahey, G; Hall, T
Published in: Ultrasound in medicine & biology
May 2025

Acoustic clutter is a major source of image degradation for in vivo ultrasound imaging. However, clutter is often not represented in laboratory testing of ultrasound equipment. A phantom material is proposed that can be used to add calibrated amounts of clutter in the laboratory environment.Previously, the speed of sound in agar has been adjusted by varying the concentration of propanol to which the agar is exposed. That property was leveraged in this work to create a phantom with an adjustable amount of clutter. Agar spheres were soaked in propanol solution, then strained and placed in mineral oil.Image quality measurements showed an approximate range of achievable contrast degradation levels of 15 dB. Stability studies with the phantom material showed that it can be stored for at least 21 d after the speed of sound tuning in propanol, but once introduced to mineral oil the clutter will change over time.This work demonstrates a clutter-generating phantom material that can be used in conjunction with standard ultrasound imaging phantoms.

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Published In

Ultrasound in medicine & biology

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EISSN

1879-291X

ISSN

0301-5629

Publication Date

May 2025

Volume

51

Issue

5

Start / End Page

768 / 776

Related Subject Headings

  • Ultrasonography
  • Phantoms, Imaging
  • Equipment Design
  • Agar
  • Acoustics
  • Acoustics
  • 3202 Clinical sciences
  • 1103 Clinical Sciences
 

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Flint, K., Huber, M., Long, J., Trahey, G., & Hall, T. (2025). Clutter-Generating Phantom Material. Part I: Development of a Tunable, Acoustic Clutter-Generating Layer for Use With Ultrasound Tissue-Mimicking Phantoms. Ultrasound in Medicine & Biology, 51(5), 768–776. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ultrasmedbio.2024.12.018
Flint, Katelyn, Matthew Huber, James Long, Gregg Trahey, and Timothy Hall. “Clutter-Generating Phantom Material. Part I: Development of a Tunable, Acoustic Clutter-Generating Layer for Use With Ultrasound Tissue-Mimicking Phantoms.Ultrasound in Medicine & Biology 51, no. 5 (May 2025): 768–76. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ultrasmedbio.2024.12.018.
Flint, Katelyn, et al. “Clutter-Generating Phantom Material. Part I: Development of a Tunable, Acoustic Clutter-Generating Layer for Use With Ultrasound Tissue-Mimicking Phantoms.Ultrasound in Medicine & Biology, vol. 51, no. 5, May 2025, pp. 768–76. Epmc, doi:10.1016/j.ultrasmedbio.2024.12.018.
Flint K, Huber M, Long J, Trahey G, Hall T. Clutter-Generating Phantom Material. Part I: Development of a Tunable, Acoustic Clutter-Generating Layer for Use With Ultrasound Tissue-Mimicking Phantoms. Ultrasound in medicine & biology. 2025 May;51(5):768–776.
Journal cover image

Published In

Ultrasound in medicine & biology

DOI

EISSN

1879-291X

ISSN

0301-5629

Publication Date

May 2025

Volume

51

Issue

5

Start / End Page

768 / 776

Related Subject Headings

  • Ultrasonography
  • Phantoms, Imaging
  • Equipment Design
  • Agar
  • Acoustics
  • Acoustics
  • 3202 Clinical sciences
  • 1103 Clinical Sciences