Russia created the first ultrasound-guided facial injection model

The Moscow Health Care Department’s Center for Diagnostics and Telemedicine Technologies has developed a face model specifically designed for honing injection techniques under ultrasound guidance. This is the first Russian model for training such manipulations, the center’s press service said.

The phantom possesses a skull, along with a salivary gland, various structures containing blood vessels, and skin that exhibits diverse densities and thicknesses of the subcutaneous fat layer across different regions. The simulator offers specialists the opportunity to repeatedly practice injection skills in various facial areas such as the nasolabial folds, lips, forehead, and temporal region, all while visualizing anatomical structures. That is, the doctor first checks where the needle penetrates and only then makes the injection.

Before, the scientists at the center created models for the mammary and thyroid glands, as well as a liver phantom, and a phantom that simulates human blood vessels and nerves. In total, eight such models were created in the center’s laboratory. It all assists doctors in clinical practice by providing support for ultrasound-guided thyroid biopsies, ultrasound examinations, densitometry, mammography, as well as monitoring quantitative parameters of computed tomography and magnetic resonance imaging.
 

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