The Ultrasound System For General Imaging 

ShearWave™ PL.U.S Elastography

Take Advantage of Outstanding Image Quality and Access to ShearWave™ PL.U.S Elastography

It is a quick, non-invasive, reproducible exam that provides quantitative measurement and color-coded maps of the tissue stiffness on an anatomic B-Mode image. The added value of our real-time ShearWave™ PL.U.S Elastography to the medical imaging landscape is recognized by major scientific societies¹ in ultrasound. It is also backed by a long track record of scientific research with nearly 900 clinical publications demonstrating the value of SWE™ imaging for the clinical management of patients in a wide range of clinical applications.

With ShearWave™ PL.U.S Elastography, you will benefit from a new kind of elastography experience:

• High Framerate real-time imaging²
• Enhanced spatial resolution³
• Increased penetration⁴
• Dynamic tissue stiffness evaluation (up to 1,200 kPa or 20 m/s) with large, color-coded map.

1. ACR BI RADS: Ultrasound (2015), KSUM Guidelines for breast elastography (2014), EFSUMB (2013) and WFUMB Guidelines
2. Real time image processing is related with typical frame rate. Current standard for capture is typically 30 frames per second and can go up to 120 frames per second for some conventional ultrasound equipment. The UltraFast™ technology allows for the image acquisition up to 20,000 frames per second.
3. SUPERSONIC® MACH™ 20 ultrasound system technical specifications: SWE™ imaging spatial resolution is 2mm for all transducers.
4. SUPERSONIC® MACH™ 20 ultrasound system technical specifications: SWE™ imaging Box depth at maximum 12 cm.

SWE™ imaging also constitutes a complementary tool for the management of cancer patients for:

• lesion characterization¹ and biopsy guidance
• surgical planning²
• therapy planning and monitoring³

“With mammography, we fail to identify almost half the breast cancers in patients with dense breasts, so we need to use other tools to help improve the diagnosis of cancer in those women (…) There are several features that I like about ShearWave™ Elastography: it gives us additional information about lesions, it improves specificity and therefore improves confidence in our final diagnosis.”

1. Berg WA et Radiology. 2012 Feb;262(2):435-49.
2. Mullen R et al. Clin 2014 Dec;69(12):1259-63.
3. Lee SH et al. Ann Surg Oncol. 2015 Dec;22 Suppl 3:376-84.

Angio PL.U.S™ Imaging

To Assess Microvasculature without the Need of Contrast Agents

Angio PL.U.S™ imaging provides a new level of microvascular imaging through an exceptional high frame rate color sensitivity and spatial resolution while maintaining exceptional 2D imaging.

Thanks to its ability to detect microvascularization in different types of lesions, this mode could open the door to added clinical information and diagnostic perspectives, in both benign and malignant lesions, without the need of contrast agents.

Liver Ultrasound Markers

To Open New Perspectives for Chronic Liver Disease Assessment

SuperSonic® MACH™ 20 ultrasound system also has a suite of Liver Tools for Assessment of Viscoelastic Properties of the Liver.

It allows a quantitative assessment of liver ultrasound biomarkers using the imaging toolset — Att PL.U.S™ imaging, SSp PL.U.S™ imaging and Vi PL.U.S™ imaging — useful for the non-invasive characterization of liver disease severity.

• Att PL.U.S™ imaging to quantify the ultrasound beam attenuation in the liver;
• SSp PL.U.S™ imaging to measure the intra-hepatic speed of sound;
• Vi PL.U.S™ imaging to visualize and quantify liver tissue viscosity.