AIX-EN-PROVENCE, France--(BUSINESS WIRE)--SuperSonic Imagine, the highly innovative medical imaging company, will unveil the newest version of its Aixplorer ultrasound system, the Expert Edition, at RSNA 2013. Bringing Aixplorer’s renowned and stellar image quality, Aixplorer Expert Edition offers expanded applications making it a full spectrum diagnostic ultrasound system designed to meet all of the radiologists’ needs.
Aixplorer has evolved significantly since its market introduction as a dedicated breast ultrasound system in 2009. SuperSonic Imagine has consistently added clinical applications and technology to Aixplorer since, and today offers users a full spectrum, single diagnostic ultrasound system making it the system of choice in radiology. Aixplorer Expert Edition is designed for those physicians who use ultrasound on a daily basis and understand how to leverage this powerful, highly advanced imaging tool for diagnostic purposes across a wide variety of applications including breast, 3D breast, thyroid, liver, abdomen, MSK, prostate, small parts, OB/GYN, vascular, and pediatrics among others.
The latest addition to the Aixplorer Expert Edition is an obstetrics and gynecology application that combines impeccable image quality and preset optimization to follow every stage of pregnancy. Users can enjoy the system’s comprehensive exam documentation and fully customizable reporting solution and OB/GYN DICOM Structured Reporting along with crystal clear visualization from the development stages of embryo to full-term fetus.
“We’re very pleased to bring radiologists Aixplorer Expert Edition, which has extremely advanced technology, is easy to use, and brings a full complement of applications so that now it can serve as the system of choice in all radiology departments,” said Jacques Souquet, CEO SuperSonic Imagine. “Radiologists and their patients will benefit from everyday clinical diagnostic advantages which have been validated in over 50 major clinical publications.”
Powering healthcare’s most advanced ultrasound system is its UltraFast™ Imaging platform- the fastest and most sophisticated architecture on the market which acquires information 200 times faster than any other ultrasound system. The extreme speed enables the company’s ShearWave™ Elastography scanning, the only real-time ultrasound imaging mode cleared by the FDA to measure and simultaneously display tissue stiffness in kilopascal, as well as UltraFast™ Doppler which speeds examination times and stands alone in its capabilities.
ShearWave Elastography (SWE™) is a non-invasive technique that is being used by thousands of radiologists worldwide to visualize and quantitatively measure (in kilopascals) tissue stiffness across several organs. Determining tissue stiffness is important, as stiffer tissue is more likely to be malignant. SWE also increases the specificity of ultrasound alone, helping physicians in their diagnostic process. In addition this technology can help physicians determine treatments, guide biopsies and monitory therapy.
SWE has proven itself clinically across multiple applications beyond breast, has a clear economic impact and has lead to a major shift in patient management. Dr. James Trotter, MD of Baylor University Medical Center in Dallas, Texas said “ShearWave Elastography is done identically to ultrasonography so it’s a very comfortable and simple exam for the patient and it takes only 30 -90 seconds to perform. It gives us a qualitative and quantitative way to determine the degree of chronic liver injury our Hepatitis C patients have. We use it on a routine basis to help us make clinical decisions about how we treat patients, and we think that by using this technique, we can cut down the number of biopsies by about half.”
Aixplorer Expert Edition’s UltraFast Doppler is the most comprehensive Doppler available offering color frame rates up to 200 Hz and full spectral Doppler quantification, including peak velocity, instantaneously. This enables exams to be conducted in seconds with no trade-offs between frame rate and color box size. This technology saves time in everyday Doppler procedures and is ideal for renal transplants and pediatrics.
SuperSonic Imagine will display Aixplorer Expert Edition at the Radiological Society of North America conference from December 1-6 at McCormick Center, Chicago, IL. USA.
About SuperSonic Imagine
Founded in 2005 and based in Aix-en-Provence (France), SuperSonic Imagine is an innovative, international company specializing in ultrasound medical imaging. The company designs, develops, and markets a revolutionary ultrasound system, Aixplorer®, with a unique ultrasound imaging technology, called MultiWave™ Technology. This technology allows Aixplorer® to be the only ultrasound system that images two types of waves to better characterize tissue; an ultrasound wave to ensure impeccable image quality and a shear wave, ShearWave™ Elastography, to compute and display true tissue stiffness in real time by acquiring images nearly 200 times faster than conventional systems. Aixplorer’s second innovation is UltraFast™ Doppler, the first technique to combine Color and Pulsed Wave Doppler into one.
In 2009, SuperSonic Imagine was granted 510(k) clearance by the Food and Drug Administration in the United States and CE mark in Europe for the marketing of Aixplorer®. SuperSonic Imagine’s distribution network has now more than 35 partners worldwide.
For more information about SuperSonic Imagine, please go to www.supersonicimagine.com