Ultrasound technology firm SuperSonic Imagine has introduced a 3D breast package for its Aixplorer ultrasound system.
With the Aixplorer 3D breast application, clinicians can visualize suspicious tissue in any plane of a 3D volume, according to the vendor. In addition, SuperSonic's 3D ShearWave elastography technique provides a 3D color-coded elasticity map of tissue stiffness in kilopascals.
In a single 3D acquisition, Aixplorer can provide a quantifiable 3D elastography volume and a high-resolution 3D B-mode volume, the company said.
The 3D breast application joins other new dedicated Aixplorer packages for gynecology, musculoskeletal imaging, and the prostate.
In other SuperSonic news, the company said that favorable results from a global multicenter study were presented at the European Congress of Radiology (ECR) earlier this month in Vienna.
The study, which was conducted across 16 U.S. and European sites and involved 1,800 patients with breast lesions, found that the firm's ShearWave elastography technique is reproducible, both quantitatively and qualitatively, according to SuperSonic. In addition, a statistical model based on 939 lesions showed that ShearWave elastography increased the performance of ultrasound breast cancer diagnosis.
