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7 March 2023 Direct 3D printing of heterogeneous optical phantoms with programmable optical properties using a multi-filament extruder
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Abstract
We report one of the first studies on direct 3-D printing of heterogeneous optical phantoms with programmable absorption and scattering properties using a multi-color mixing extruder. This method dynamically mixes off-the-shelf gray, white, and translucent filaments to achieve arbitrary target absorption and scattering coefficients. We use a spatial frequency domain imaging system to characterize and validate the printed properties and verify that they follow our hypothesized linear-mixing models. A complex phantom with five inclusions with distinct optical properties was produced and the measured properties compared to their predicted values showed an error between 12%-15%.
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Rahul Ragunathan, Miguel Mireles, Morris Vanegas, Edward Xu, Aiden Lewis, and Qianqian Fang "Direct 3D printing of heterogeneous optical phantoms with programmable optical properties using a multi-filament extruder", Proc. SPIE PC12376, Optical Tomography and Spectroscopy of Tissue XV, PC1237602 (7 March 2023); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2649259
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KEYWORDS
3D printing

Optical properties

Optical phantoms

Printing

3D acquisition

3D modeling

Scattering

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