Advancing Imaging Standards: NIBIB Initiatives on Development and Dissemination of Imaging Phantoms

Session Title for Website and App: Advancing Imaging Standards: NIBIB Initiatives on Development and Dissemination of Imaging Phantoms

Special Session Program Description: Medical imaging plays an important role in screening, diagnosis, characterization, and treatment of diseases and therapy response monitoring. Phantoms play a crucial role in various aspects of medical devices and imaging technology development. Standardized and reproducible phantoms are critical tools to quantitatively test and characterize biomedical imaging and medical device performance under different operating parameters. These phantoms can assist in quality assurance and control during technical development of biomedical imaging technologies to accelerate innovation and reduce the need for ad-hoc test methods which remain a burden for innovators. It is also critical that phantoms be quantitively tested, validated in a manner that ensures reproducible test results over time. Currently, there is a lack of standardized phantoms for many imaging devices that significantly hampers quality assurance and performance monitoring.

As one of the NIH institutes focusing on the development of biomedical imaging and bioengineering tools and technologies, NIBIB supports the development and dissemination of standardized and reproducible imaging phantoms to better respond to the needs of the imaging and scientific communities and to encourage and foster scientific exchanges. This session will focus on NIBIB initiatives along with other government agencies to address the need for calibrated phantoms to improve repeatability, reproducibility, and quantification of imaging technologies.

Committee, Sig, or Organization Title: NIH