TY - JOUR
T1 - Perk tutor
T2 - An open-source training platform for ultrasound-guided needle insertions
AU - Ungi, Tamas
AU - Sargent, Derek
AU - Moult, Eric
AU - Lasso, Andras
AU - Pinter, Csaba
AU - McGraw, Robert C.
AU - Fichtinger, Gabor
PY - 2012
Y1 - 2012
N2 - Image-guided needle placement, including ultrasound (US)-guided techniques, have become commonplace in modern medical diagnosis and therapy. To ensure that the next generations of physicians are competent using this technology, efficient and effective educational programs need to be developed. This paper presents the Perk Tutor: a configurable, open-source training platform for US-guided needle insertions. The Perk Tutor was successfully tested in three different configurations to demonstrate its adaptability to different procedures and learning objectives. 1) The Targeting Tutor, designed to develop US-guided needle targeting skills, 2) the Lumbar Tutor, designed for practicing US-guided lumbar spinal procedures, and (3) the Prostate Biopsy Tutor, configured for US-guided prostate biopsies. The Perk Tutor provides the trainee with quantitative feedback on progress toward the specific learning objectives of each configuration. Configurations were implemented through simple rearrangement of hardware and software components, attesting to the modularity and ease of configuration. The Perk Tutor is provided as a free resource to enable research and development of educational programs for US-guided intervention.
AB - Image-guided needle placement, including ultrasound (US)-guided techniques, have become commonplace in modern medical diagnosis and therapy. To ensure that the next generations of physicians are competent using this technology, efficient and effective educational programs need to be developed. This paper presents the Perk Tutor: a configurable, open-source training platform for US-guided needle insertions. The Perk Tutor was successfully tested in three different configurations to demonstrate its adaptability to different procedures and learning objectives. 1) The Targeting Tutor, designed to develop US-guided needle targeting skills, 2) the Lumbar Tutor, designed for practicing US-guided lumbar spinal procedures, and (3) the Prostate Biopsy Tutor, configured for US-guided prostate biopsies. The Perk Tutor provides the trainee with quantitative feedback on progress toward the specific learning objectives of each configuration. Configurations were implemented through simple rearrangement of hardware and software components, attesting to the modularity and ease of configuration. The Perk Tutor is provided as a free resource to enable research and development of educational programs for US-guided intervention.
KW - Medical education
KW - needle placement
KW - simulation
KW - ultrasound (US) guidance
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U2 - 10.1109/TBME.2012.2219307
DO - 10.1109/TBME.2012.2219307
M3 - Article
C2 - 23008243
AN - SCOPUS:84870538609
SN - 0018-9294
VL - 59
SP - 3475
EP - 3481
JO - IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering
JF - IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering
IS - 12
M1 - 6304910
ER -