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PRELIMINARY EXPERIENCE OF A PROTOTYPE FORWARD‐VIEWING CURVED LINEAR ARRAY ECHOENDOSCOPE IN A TRAINING PHANTOM MODEL
Author(s) -
Imaizumi Hiroshi,
Irisawa Atushi
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
digestive endoscopy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.5
H-Index - 56
eISSN - 1443-1661
pISSN - 0915-5635
DOI - 10.1111/j.1443-1661.2010.00975.x
Subject(s) - imaging phantom , scope (computer science) , medicine , visualization , endoscopic ultrasonography , ultrasonography , medical physics , radiology , computer science , artificial intelligence , endoscopy , programming language
Oblique‐viewing curved linear array (OV‐CLA) echoendoscopes have been widely used to perform endoscopic ultrasonography‐guided fine needle aspiration and interventional endoscopic ultrasonography. Recently a prototype forward‐viewing curved liner array (FV‐CLA) echoendoscope was developed. In the present trial, 11 endoscopists participated in a hands‐on trial and a questionnaire survey to evaluate the operation performance and visualization performance of a prototype FV‐CLA scope in a phantom model designed for training of endoscopic ultrasonography. The results of our trial suggested that the FV‐CLA scope is slightly inferior or equivalent to the conventional OV‐CLA scope in operation performance, and that the FV‐CLA scope is equivalent to the OV‐CLA scope with regard to the visualization performance in a phantom model.