Optical Phantoms, Reference Targets & Validation Tools
Standard and custom tissue-mimicking phantoms, fluorescence targets, and flow models for biomedical imaging, optical sensing, wearables, and device development. Our team can help tailor optical properties, geometry, materials, and characterization to your application.
Explore Our Optical Phantom Platforms
Select a product family to view available configurations, applications, and customization options.
Fluorescent Phantoms & Targets
Custom Phantom or Target Design Request
Trusted Fluorescence Standards for Device Validation, Training, and Clinical Translation
QUEL Imaging fluorescence targets are the definitive shelf-stable quantitative tools for measuring fluorescence surgical imaging system performance.
You need to ensure that your imaging system works. Now you can prove it.
Our targets are designed to align with international guidelines* for characterizing fluorescence guided surgery device performance. Collect quantitative data that your team and regulators can trust as you bring your devices to market.
Our products can help you answer the core questions needed to demonstrate your device’s performance, including:
- Fluorescence linearity and limits of detection: How sensitive can you see?
- Relative depth sensitivity: How deep can you see?
- Spatial Resolution: How small can you see?
- Depth of Field: How far can you see?
- Field of View: How much can you see?
- Distortion and Uniformity: How accurate are your images?
Device development begins with reliable reference targets. QUEL Imaging has your team covered.
Our Fluorophores:
1 CYTALUX is a trademark of On Target
2 IRDye is a trademark of LI-COR
Customization:
Fluorophores
RET Wavelengths
(470 nm – 1300 nm)
Novel Target Designs
OptiBlox®: Optical Tissue Phantoms
Custom OptiBlox® Solution Request
Repeatable · Traceable · Shelf-stable
Tissue-equivalent optical phantoms for reproducible optical testing and validation.
The OptiBlox® phantom platform provides shelf-stable, highly reproducible optical tissue models for evaluating optical devices without the variability of biological tissue. Built using well-characterized materials with traceable optical properties across the visible, NIR, and SWIR spectral regions, OptiBlox® supports confident device characterization, validation testing, algorithm development, and performance benchmarking.
Accelerate optical device development with reproducible, tissue-equivalent phantom platforms. Contact QUEL Imaging to discuss OptiBlox® solutions for device characterization, validation testing, and quantitative optical measurements.
OptiBlox® Product Lines:
Q-T: The optical reference phantoms that you can trust.
Q-X: Complex, 3D tissue phantoms with reference-grade optical properties.
Multi-layer skin phantom with 200um thick melanin
Colon phantom with embedded vessel structure
Prostate phantom with flow channels
High-absorption inclusions at various depths in multi-spectral tissue phantom
Q-S: Reference optical phantoms with tissue-like mechanical compliance
Colon Phantom
Lung Phantom
Breast Lumpectomy Phantom
Read the table specification guide below to understand the differences, or contact us with questions.
OptiBlox® Options | Q-T | Q-X | Q-S |
Description | Traditional rigid homogenous phantoms | State-of-the-art 3D-printed heterogenous phantoms with multispectral capabilities | Soft tissue phantoms with customizable mechanical properties |
Material | Rigid (polyurethane) | Rigid | Soft (silicone) |
Production Method | Cast | 3D Printed | Cast |
Availability / Lead Time | Standard: In-Stock Custom: 2-4 weeks | Custom: 2-4 weeks | Custom: 2-4 weeks |
Standard Shapes | 50 x 50 x 20 mm75 x 75 x 20 mmCustom available | Highly customizable: geometric, anatomic | |
Reference Wavelengths | 1 | 1-4 | 1-4 |
Characterization | Optical properties are reported at 5 mm spacing:Standard (VIS/NIR): 450 nm – 950 nmExtended (VIS/NIR/SWIR): 450 nm – 1500 + nm | Optical properties are reported at 5 mm spacing:Standard (VIS/NIR): 450 nm – 950 nmExtended (VIS/NIR/SWIR): 450 nm – 1500 + nm | Optical properties are reported at 5 mm spacing:Standard (VIS/NIR): 450 nm – 950 nmExtended (VIS/NIR/SWIR): 450 nm – 1500 + nm |
Maximum Dimensions | 75 x 75 x 75 mm | ||
Material Options | Homogeneous | Homogeneous, Heterogenous ( ≤ 6) | Homogeneous |
FluoFlow® Integration | No | Yes | Limited |
Fluophore Compatability | Limited | No | Limited |
Digital Twins Simulation | |||
Recommended Use | Preliminary testing or long-term optical reference material | Heterogenous designs, integratio with dynamic flow | Testing mechanical coupling |
FluoFlow®: Dynamic Flow Phantoms
Custom FluoFlow® Design Request
Realistic Tissue · Controlled Flow · Quantitative Insight
Tissue-equivalent dynamic flow phantoms.
FluoFlow® adds dynamic fluid flow to QUEL’s tissue-equivalent optical phantoms — giving you a controlled, reproducible environment to evaluate contrast agents, fluorescence imaging systems, and quantitative analysis algorithms under realistic flow and perfusion conditions.
Load the channel with your fluorophore, a blood-mimicking fluid, or any aqueous contrast agent. Control the flow rate. Image under your system’s actual acquisition parameters. The result is tissue-realistic performance data you can generate on the bench — reducing dependence on animal studies during early-stage probe and device development. Flow channel geometry and phantom optical properties are both customizable to your application, whether you’re developing algorithms for fluorescence-guided surgery, characterizing wearable optical sensors, or evaluating perfusion imaging systems.
Key Features:
- Compatible with fluorophores, contrast agents, and blood-mimicking fluids
- De-risk your device before your animal study begins.
- Test contrast candidates in tissue-equivalent optical environments
- Supports contrast sensitivity and imaging-depth characterization
- Answer critical questions at the benchtop with controlled biological variables
- Benchmark reproducible dynamic image analysis algorithms
- Configurable flow channels and phantom geometries
- Customizable tissue-equivalent absorption and scattering properties for your application
Standard Product:
Depth Resolution Dynamic Flow Target
Customization Available:
FluoFlow® phantoms can be customized with a wide range of flow geometries, including serpentine channels, branched vascular networks, and flow paths embedded within anatomical phantoms.
Explore examples of previous FluoFlow® designs on our YouTube playlist.
Custom configurations can be developed for applications such as contrast agent testing, perfusion and vascular imaging, quantitative fluorescence, dynamic image analysis, and translational imaging research.
Have a specific flow pattern, tissue model, or optical environment in mind? Contact QUEL Imaging to discuss a custom FluoFlow® phantom.
Custom Product Request
Customized tissue-equivalent phantoms to meet your specific needs.
Tunable optical properties, customized shapes, multimaterial, flow, application specific.
Every application is unique, development lifecycles are long. QUEL Imaging provides the tissue optics expertise to help bring your technology into the clinic.
From one-off prototypes, to production volumes with full traceability, our phantoms help accelerate your translation efforts.
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