Virtual Reality for Anxiety in Interventional Radiology Procedures

Inclusion Criteria: * Indication to CT-guided biopsy in local anesthesia * Informed consent signature Exclusion Criteria: * Lack of patient consent to trial. * Lack of eligibility to perform CT-guided needle biopsy, or eligibility to perform the procedure but with administration of general anesthesia or sedation. * patients who do not speak Italian or English will be excluded; * patients with visual and/or hearing impairment; * patients on analgesics or anxiolytics; * patients with the following conditions: dementia, psychiatric disorders; headache, dizziness, recent head injury, epilepsy, and other conditions in which the application of VR glasses has been judged to be potentially harmful; and when the topical anesthetic (lidocaine and prilocaine \[eutectic mixture of local anesthetic (EMLA)\]) or tetracaine (Ametop) was not properly applied before surgery.