Paediatric imaging protocols should be carefully optimised to maintain the desired image quality for the delivered radiation dose. To do this, a specially designed paediatric chest phantom has been constructed to optimise CT chest examinations for infants.


Seonaid Rodgers BSc MSc

Medical Technology and Physics Department, Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital


A novel chest phantom was fabricated using tissue-equivalent materials to mimic thoracic structures of a child aged 0-1-year-old. The phantom was designed to provide dosimetry and image quality measurements within the anthropomorphic structure.

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