How to submit a phantom to the cone-beam phantom data base:
 

This document describes how to provide a description and a definition of the phantom which you find useful and which you would like to become available for everyone via the internet. The HowTo is divided into two parts. Part 1 describes how to submit your phantom description and definition to the phantom page PhantomPage.  The second Part describes what the contents of your phantom file(s) should be. You can regard this as a rough outline of the structure of your file. If you find it necessary, you may deviate from that structure.
 

How to submit

1. To minimize our effort to link your phantom description into the PhantomPage you have to provide your description in html.
2. The complete description should be contained in one html file only : the phanthom description file
3. The page may contain links that point onto other positions of that page and they may contain links to additional files that contains the definition of your phantom in the syntax that is used by your simulation program or in some pseudo syntax. People who want to use the phantom then have to download those text files and  adopt the syntax to their simulation program.
4. If the syntax is unclear or complex, you can provide a second html file describing the syntax of your simulation program. In this case, the phantom description file should contain a link to that syntax file.
5. To submit the files (phantom description file, syntax-file and the text files togehter with all the tif files) you can  either

a) mail the files to Laurent.Desbat@imag.fr (preferably zip the complete directory into one zip-file)
b) mail only a link to Laurent.Desbat@imag.fr. This link should point onto your own http server where the corresponding files are located.
 
 

Title:
The file should have a title

Address:
Following the title comes the author's name and his corresponding address. You may place here a mailto link and a link to your institution.

Aims:
Then you should provide an abstract explaining why this phantom was designed and what it was made for and what else it could be used for.

Primitives/Syntax:
A description of what geometrical primitives are needed and what interactions between them are necessary (intersection, addition etc.) to create the phantom must be given. If the syntax of the definition file is not self explaining, a corresponding section that explains the syntax must be found somewhere.

Description/Definition:
Describe the phantom going at least as far into detail as it is necessary to understand the attached description file. For example if your phantom consists of several hundred objects it is clear that no user is willing to go through each of the objects in the syntax file. Therefore, a detailed description that explains the location and size of these objects is necessary.

Materials/Densities:
Do not forget to specify the materials and densities used.

Figures:
As many figures as necessary to understand the phantom, should be placed in the document.

References:
If necessary for the understanding of the underlying mathematics (or whatever) please give references.