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According to the American Association of Physicists in Medicine, the primary responsibility of the clinical medical physicist is to facilitate the production of quality of diagnostic images consistent with the available technology while simultaneously optimizing patient safety. The introduction of additive or 3D printing technologies is providing previously unimagined opportunities to improve both image quality and safety through the development of 3D printed objects for research, clinical quality control, maintenance and testing purposes. The purpose of this presentation is to describe the development of 3D printed objects for the purposes of medical physics testing and quality control in a variety of research and clinical settings. Particular emphasis will be placed on the development of patient specific phantom models derived from multiple imaging modalities and how these devices can be used to optimize image quality for complex clinical imaging situations. Attention will also be given to demonstrating how these models can be used for optimizing image quality and reducing patient dose in modalities that use ionizing radiation. Phantoms for both routine clinical quality control and acceptance testing of clinical imaging equipment will also be described. Finally, the spatial accuracy and precision of these 3D phantoms will be described.
McGee, K,
Leng, S,
Medical Physics and 3D Printing: Exploration and Opportunity. Radiological Society of North America 2014 Scientific Assembly and Annual Meeting, - ,Chicago IL.
http://archive.rsna.org/2014/14044360.html
