Impending challenges in radiation dose estimation in patients especially in radiotherapy and nuclear medicine are of great concern. There is an urgent need to employ a human-like medium for verification before any radiation-related treatment or procedure to safeguard the patient and to ensure accuracy and efficiency of the treatment given. Rhizophora spp. is among the extensively studied alternative phantom material besides the widely commercialized resin-based phantom. This paper serves to review the evolution of Rhizophora spp. as phantom material and recent development of Rhizophora spp. phantom in medical physics applications and radiation study.

患者的辐射剂量估计即将面临挑战，尤其是在放射治疗和核医学方面，这是非常令人担忧的。在任何与辐射相关的治疗或程序之前，迫切需要使用类人介质进行验证，以保护患者并确保所给予治疗的准确性和效率。Rhizophora spp. 除了广泛商业化的基于树脂的体模之外，它还是被广泛研究的替代体模材料之一。本文旨在回顾Rhizophora spp的进化。作为幻影材料和Rhizophora spp 的最新发展。医学物理应用和辐射研究中的幻影。