Creating Low-Cost Phantoms for Needle Manipulation Training in Interventional Radiology Procedures

Abstract

The authors propose a series of phantoms to teach the core skills necessary to perform procedures early in resident training. The phantoms described can be used to train skills necessary for performing US-guided biopsy, US-guided vascular puncture, cone-beam CT drainage, and fluoroscopy-guided lumbar puncture, as well as using the parallax effect to determine relative position at fluoroscopy.