TY - JOUR T1 - A teaching and research simulator for therapeutic embolization. JF - American Journal of Neuroradiology JO - Am. J. Neuroradiol. SP - 167 LP - 169 VL - 1 IS - 2 AU - C W Kerber AU - L W Flaherty Y1 - 1980/03/01 UR - http://www.ajnr.org/content/1/2/167.abstract N2 - A teaching machine that simulates intravascular conditions found during a human therapeutic embolization has been constructed. A submersible pump drives fluid through a circuit of tubing. One limb of a Y (a vascular bifurcation) located in this circuit leads to a model arteriovenous malformation. Catheters placed in this limb may introduce embolic materials by various techniques, and those techniques may be learned and practiced under safe and stress-free conditions. Loss of an embolus into the other limb which supposedly leads to normal tissues is caught and displayed by a sieve, providing immediate feedback that a technique error has occurred. ER -