On the Design of a Pelvic Phantom for Magentic Resononance and Utltrasound Image Fusion

The purpose of this paper is to introduce a customized multi- modality phantom designed to facilitate the proof-of-concept of MRI/ultrasound fusion approaches. Phantom experiments are often required before in vivo validation, giving access to more challenging data than numerical simulations. Nevertheless, manufactured phantoms are expensive and usually lack of flexibility. In contrast, the proposed model was inexpensive and accurately designed to overcome multimodal registration issues.