FORBILD Head phantom

The source code is for MATLAB, and it was taken from the paper:

Yu, Z., Noo, F., Dennerlein, F., Wunderlich, A., Lauritsch, G., & Hornegger, J. (2012). Simulation tools for two-dimensional experiments in x-ray computed tomography using the FORBILD head phantom. Physics in medicine and biology, 57(13), N237.

How to use it

To generate a simple phantom of resolution 512x512, one should write:

phantom = forbild_gen(512, 512, 1, 1)

This phantom will include both left and right ears, which is specified by flags 1 and 1 respectively.

To save generated phantom as a TIFF file, one may use:

convertDataTo32Tiff('path-to-dir/filename.tif', phantom)