Digital Reference Object (DRO)

A Software Phantom created by Dr. Daniel Barboriak, Duke University and QIBA

Last update: 7/01/2013 05:30 PM EST


This digital phantom contains data synthesized using the Tofts model for a range of Ktrans and Ve. A single slice is provided in DICOM format.
The data can be downloaded here
Read the README file for description about the data Please provide 3 runs for each algorithm: We are interested in assessing the repeatability of the algorithms.


The Vascular region of interest is the bottom 50*10 pixels strip of the image.
The peak of the Vascular region is the top-left 25*10 pixels strip of the image. This strip also contains time point labels given in seconds.
The Zero patch (Ktrans=0.0, Ve=0.5) is the top-right 25*10 pixels strip of the image.
Each 10*10 pixel patch is has combination of Ktrans and Ve values. Dr. Barboriak's website has additional information about the DRO. However, please contact Jayashree Kalpathy-Cramer, MGH first regarding these data.


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