ABSTRACT
Patient-specific tissue-mimicking phantoms are enabled by the advent of additive manufacturing. They have a wide range of biomedical applications including validation of computational models and imaging techniques, medical device testing, surgery planning, medical education, doctor-patient interaction, etc. The latest development in medical phantoms is a metamaterial phantom that is not only accurate in anatomic geometry, but also approximating the biomechanical properties of its native counterpart. The potential use of such phantoms to quantitatively assess the post-TAVR aortic root strain in vitro is demonstrated.
