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. 2017 Jul 7;79(3):1817–1828. doi: 10.1002/mrm.26814

Figure 1.

Figure 1

Structure of the liquid crystal phantom. a: Chemical structure of the detergent sodium dioctyl sulfosuccinate, the hydrocarbon isooctane, and water. b: Self‐assembled nanostructure with AOT (white sodium ions, red hydrophilic head groups, yellow hydrophobic tails) in the interface between a continuous matrix of isooctane (green) and hexagonally packed cylindrical rods of water (blue). The structure was generated with the molecular dynamics simulation package GROMACS 122 and rendered with POV‐Ray 123. c: Schematic microstructure with randomly oriented 100‐μm‐scale anisotropic domains color‐coded according to the direction of the six‐fold symmetry axis as [x, y, z] = [red, green, blue]. d: Photo of the phantom comprising the transparent liquid crystal in a 0.5‐L round‐bottom glass flask on a cork stand in front of the wall logo at the reception of the Athinoula A. Martinos Center at Massachusetts General Hospital 97.