Multimodality vendor GE Healthcare has launched two new ultrasound scanners: one a high-end cardiovascular system and the other a compact ultrasound unit.
Vivid 7 Dimension is a premium echocardiography scanner that includes 4D and multidimensional imaging capabilities. It also features new echocardiography acquisition, reconstruction, and analysis techniques that allow physicians to view images in multiple planes simultaneously, according to the Waukesha, WI, company.
With multidimensional imaging, Vivid 7 Dimension users can acquire biplane and triplane images with color and Doppler, enabling the simultaneous visualization of more myocardial segments for both echo exams and stress-echo exams. With 4D imaging, users can view real-time heart images, while 4D Tissue Synchronization Imaging is a "dynamic 4D parametric imaging model of dyssynchrony from a single heartbeat" that is useful for assessing a patient's heart condition, according to the company.
Logiq Book XP is a new compact ultrasound system that weighs only 10 lb, but supports a broad range of diagnostic applications, according to GE. The scanner is designed to be taken directly to patients, in environments such as surgery or emergency departments.
Logiq Book XP is based on GE's TruScan ultrasound architecture and miniaturization technologies, and has the capacity to store 30,000 clinical images. It features a new 3S-RS phased-array transducer for cardiac and emergency applications, and new i739-RS and t739-RS transducers for surgery.
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
October 20, 2004
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