A simple test phantom for stereotactic computed tomography.
An easy-to-use phantom has been constructed for checking the accuracy of a stereotactic computed tomography localization system. This phantom has been used on a commercially available stereotactic radiosurgery system. With this system, the phantom reference point, whose location is established by means of a precision measuring implement, can be localized by a computed tomography (CT) scanner with a standard deviation of measurement that is less than 0.3 mm in three orthogonal axes.
Bowman Gray School of Medicine, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, North Carolina 27157.
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D006801:Humans; D008961:Models, Structural; D016634:Radiosurgery / Q000295:instrumentation* / Q000379:methods; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed