Multimodality vendor Philips Medical Systems is demonstrating new products and software at the American Society of Echocardiography (ASE) meeting in Boston this week.
The firm said it will be showcasing its iE33 intelligent echo system, HD11 ultrasound system, and an offline version of QLAB quantification software.
The iE33 combines Philips' PureWave S5-1 transducer technology with its XRES adaptive imaging technology on the platform. The HD11 features a digital broadband beamformer with beam-steering capabilities and signal-processing techniques that provide enhanced edges and margins for more sharply defined structures, reduced noise and speckle, and better visibility and contrast resolution, according to Philips.
The HD11 also incorporates the vendor's iSCAN optimization technology to automatically sample digital data and adjust multiple parameters to improve image quality and provide image consistency between exams, Philips said.
The QLAB 4.1 software permits many of the quantification features from the iE33 available for postexam analysis, the company said. The application uses true volume quantification to access all pixels in a 3D dataset and provide accurate quantification of the left ventricle (LV) ejection fraction, according to the vendor.
Other quantification capabilities available in QLAB 4.1 include 2D and 3D distance, area, length, LV mass, strain, intima media thickness, and region of interest. In addition, a physician can use the application to evaluate global LV volume and the regional volume of 17 segments of the heart, the developer said.
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
June 16, 2005
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