@article{oai:repo.qst.go.jp:00082908,
 author = {Usumura, Masashi and Kishimoto, Riwa and Ishii, Koki and Hotta, Eika and Kershaw, Jeff and Higashi, Tatsuya and Obata, Takayuki and Suga, Mikio and Masashi, Usumura and Riwa, Kishimoto and Kershaw, Jeffrey and Tatsuya, Higashi and Takayuki, Obata},
 issue = {5},
 journal = {PloS one},
 month = {May},
 note = {We evaluated the long-term stability of a newly developed viscoelastic phantom made of polyacrylamide (PAAm) gel for magnetic resonance elastography (MRE) and ultrasound-based shear-wave elastography (US SWE). The stiffness of the cylindrical phantom was measured at 0, 13 and 18 months. Storage and loss moduli were measured with MRE, and shear-wave speed (SWS) was measured with US SWE. Long-term stability was evaluated in accordance with the Quantitative Imaging Biomarker Alliance (QIBA) profiles for each modality. The initial storage and loss moduli of the phantom were 5.01±0.22 and 1.11±0.15 respectively, and SWS was 2.57±0.04 m/s. The weight of the phantom decreased by 0.6% over the 18 months. When measured with MRE, the stiffness of the phantom decreased and changes to the storage and loss moduli were -3.0% and -4.6% between 0 and 13 months, and -4.3% and 0.0% between 0 and 18 months. The US measurements found that SWS decreased by 2.4% over the first 13 months and 3.6% at 18 months. These changes were smaller than the tolerances specified in the QIBA profiles, so the viscoelastic PAAm gel phantom fulfilled the condition for long-term stability. This new phantom has the potential to be used as a quality assurance and quality control phantom for MRE and US SWE.},
 title = {Longitudinal stability of a multimodal visco-elastic polyacrylamide gel phantom for magnetic resonance and ultrasound shear-wave elastography.},
 volume = {16},
 year = {2021}
}