Siemens Ultrasound has introduced a software upgrade for its Sonoline Elegra ultrasound platform.
New features available with the 5.0 release include enhancements to the Issaquah, WA-based firm's 3-Scape Real-Time 3-D Imaging technique. The new 3-D package includes a set of advanced rendering tools designed to increase the clinical utility of 3-D ultrasound, according to the vendor. With a flexible electronic scalpel, undesired data can be peeled away, according to Siemens. The new surface can then be rendered to show unique clinical information or fetal anatomy and other organs throughout the body.
Other new 3-D enhancements include minimum intensity projection, a tool that Siemens claims allows clinicians to more clearly demonstrate vasculature of the liver and extremities and cystic structures such as those found in the breast. Siemens has also added a bookmarking function that allows physicians to easily retrieve, edit, and manipulate 3-D volumes.
Siemens has also added a new transducer to Elegra, called CX5-2 Multi-D Array. This tranducer, which has primary application in high-resolution, deep abdominal and obstetrical imaging, enhances image detail and clarity over a much larger focal zone than conventional transducers, according to Siemens.
Other new features available on 5.0 include Photopic Ultrasound Imaging, which uses a real-time image enhancement algorithm to recognize the acoustic fingerprint of a standard grayscale ultrasound image, and convert it into a color-enriched study. Another technology, SieFlow Grayscale Flow Imaging, provides direct visualization of blood flow in B-Mode imaging.
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
March 7, 2000
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