Published: March 07, 2011
Aixplorer MultiWave Technology Brings Physicians Unrivalled Diagnostic Confidence with Its New 3D Breast Imaging Package
AIX EN PROVENCE, France - (BUSINESS WIRE) - With its unique ShearWave Elastography, the Aixplorer ultrasound system
exploits two types of waves; one ultrasound wave to ensure impeccable
image quality in B-mode, and one shear wave to measure and display true
local tissue elasticity in kilopascals.
SuperSonic Imagine presents, for the first time at the ECR, its new 3D
breast package.
Impeccable 3D image quality:
The Aixplorer now offers 3D breast ultrasound, the latest technology for
breast visualisation and lesion classification. Acquired 3D volumetric
data together with 3D display features deliver new information of breast
pathology.
With the Aixplorer 3D breast application, suspicious tissue can be
visualised in any plane of a 3D volume, particularly in the coronal or
C-plane for a high-resolution morphological assessment.
Industry first, quantitative ultrasound
elastography in 3D:
Never seen before, patented 3D ShearWave Elastography offers physicians
a 3D color-coded elasticity map of tissue stiffness in kilopascals.
In a single 3D acquisition, Aixplorer produces a reproducible,
quantifiable (kPa) 3D elastography volume, as well as, a high-resolution
3D B-mode volume.
The 3D elastography map provides unprecedented clinical information of
the elasticity distribution inside and around a breast lesion.
3D ShearWave Elastography improves lesion characterisation and is also a
phenomenal clinical tool for lesion follow-up under treatment and
surgical planning.
3D breast imaging is an outstanding tool to monitor lesions during
chemotherapy. The quality of the images displayed, added to the tissues
elasticity values, give physicians the ability to follow any change in
the volume or the structure of a lesion before, during and after the
treatment.
Clinical image: Invasive intraductal
adeno-carcinoma
58 years old patient.
She presents with a palpable mass on the
right breast.
2D B-mode image shows a hypoechoic spiculated
millimetric mass, BI-RADS 5.
The pathology result
confirms an invasive intraductal adeno-carcinoma.
3D ShearWave
Elastography MultiSlice coronal plane reconstruction of invasive
intraductal adeno-carcinoma.
References: D. AMY; Radiology, Cabinet de Radiologie, Aix en
Provence, FRANCE
High definition images available upon request.
About SuperSonic Imagine:
Founded in 2005 and based in Aix-en-Provence, France, SuperSonic Imagine
is an innovative, multinational medical imaging company dedicated to
developing a revolutionary ultrasound system: the Aixplorer.
This system leverages a unique MultiWave technology that enables the
user to detect, characterize and, in the future, treat palpable and
non-palpable masses. MultiWave technology is based on combining two
types of waves: an ultrasound wave that provides exceptional imaging in
B-mode, and a shear wave, ShearWave Elastography, which measures and
displays the stiffness of tissue in kilopascals*. ShearWave Elastography
is user-skill independent with reproducible results. Aixplorer is CE
mark approved since 2008 and has FDA clearance since 2009 and has
several clinical applications: breast (and 3D breast), thyroid, abdomen,
liver, musculo-skeletal, prostate, and gynaecological (excluding
obstetrics).
SuperSonic Imagine has both a direct sales and distribution network
worldwide, including Hologic Inc. (Nasdaq: HOLX) for the breast care
market in the USA and Canon Marketing in Japan. SuperSonic Imagine holds
the exclusive right, title and interest to 25 international patents and
submissions in diagnostic imaging and therapy applications. Company
investors include Edmond de Rothschild Investment Partners (EdRIP),
Auriga Partners, Credit Agricole Private Equity (CAPE), NBGI Ventures,
Bioam, Merieux Developpement, Wellington Partners, Innobio, Canon
(NYSE:CAJ), and IXO Private Equity.
For further information about SuperSonic Imagine please visit our
website:
www.supersonicimagine.com
http://www.supersonicimagine.fr
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oF9xZPZai_s
* Quantification available outside USA.
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Press contacts SuperSonic Imagine
Dan Conley of Beacon
Communications, +1-312-593-8461
dconley@beaconpr.com
or
Michele
Debain -Global Marketing Director SuperSonic Imagine, +33 442 99 24 32
michele.debain@supersonicimagine.fr
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