Ultrasound developer SuperSonic Imagine of Aix en Provence, France, has raised 34.5 million euros ($45.3 million) in Series C financing to develop additional clinical applications and boost global commercial operations.
The financing was led by Mérieux Dévoppement, followed by Canon and InnoBio for a total of 15.5 million euro ($20.4 million) from new investors.
The company plans to use the funds to accelerate development of its technology and finance global commercialization of its Aixplorer MultiWave ultrasound system. After initially focusing on breast imaging, the company plans to expand clinical applications to include liver, thyroid, abdominal, musculoskeletal, gynecological, and prostate imaging.
With MultiWave technology, one ultrasound wave ensures image quality and the other, a shear wave, displays local tissue elasticity. The Aixplorer system can generate, capture, and compute shear wave velocity in real-time, resulting in the bidimensional display of true tissue elasticity on a color-coded map, according to SuperSonic.
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