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The aims were to characterize the grid-based method and to evaluate its capability to provide realistically shaped phantoms with non-uniform activity distributions.<\/jats:p>\n              <\/jats:sec><jats:sec>\n                <jats:title>Methods<\/jats:title>\n                <jats:p>Characterization of the grid structures was performed by printing grid-filled spheres. Evaluation was performed by micro-CT imaging to investigate the printing accuracy and by studying the modulation contrast (<jats:inline-formula><jats:alternatives><jats:tex-math>$$C_{{\\text{M}}}$$<\/jats:tex-math><mml:math xmlns:mml=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/1998\/Math\/MathML\">\n                    <mml:msub>\n                      <mml:mi>C<\/mml:mi>\n                      <mml:mtext>M<\/mml:mtext>\n                    <\/mml:msub>\n                  <\/mml:math><\/jats:alternatives><\/jats:inline-formula>) in SPECT images for <jats:sup>177<\/jats:sup>Lu and <jats:sup>99m<\/jats:sup>Tc as a function of the grid fillable-volume fraction (<jats:italic>FVF<\/jats:italic>) determined from weighing. The grid-based technique was applied for the construction of two kidney phantoms and two thyroid phantoms, designed using templates from the XCAT digital phantoms. The kidneys were constructed with a hollow outer container shaped as cortex, an inner grid-based structure representing medulla and a solid section representing pelvis. The thyroids consisted of two lobes printed as grid-based structures, with void hot spots within the lobes. The phantoms were filled with solutions of <jats:sup>177<\/jats:sup>Lu (kidneys) or <jats:sup>99m<\/jats:sup>Tc (thyroids) and imaged with SPECT. For verification, Monte Carlo simulations of SPECT imaging were performed for activity distributions corresponding to those of the printed phantoms. Measured and simulated SPECT images were compared qualitatively and quantitatively.<\/jats:p>\n              <\/jats:sec><jats:sec>\n                <jats:title>Results<\/jats:title>\n                <jats:p>Micro-CT images showed that printing inaccuracies were mainly uniform across the grid. The relationships between the <jats:italic>FVF<\/jats:italic> from weighing and <jats:inline-formula><jats:alternatives><jats:tex-math>$$C_{{\\text{M}}}$$<\/jats:tex-math><mml:math xmlns:mml=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/1998\/Math\/MathML\">\n                    <mml:msub>\n                      <mml:mi>C<\/mml:mi>\n                      <mml:mtext>M<\/mml:mtext>\n                    <\/mml:msub>\n                  <\/mml:math><\/jats:alternatives><\/jats:inline-formula> were found to be linear (<jats:italic>r<\/jats:italic>\u2009=\u20090.9995 and <jats:italic>r<\/jats:italic>\u2009=\u20090.9993 for <jats:sup>177<\/jats:sup>Lu and <jats:sup>99m<\/jats:sup>Tc, respectively). The <jats:italic>FVF<\/jats:italic>-deviations from the design were up to 15% for thyroids and 4% for kidneys, mainly related to possibilities of cleaning after printing. 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