GE Healthcare announced today commercial availability in the U.S, Europe
and Japan for its new Voluson E10 ultrasound system featuring the
world’s first curved matrix electronic 4D probe designed specifically
for OB/GYN and the next generation version of its HDlive software.
The Voluson E10 is GE’s newest and most advanced Voluson system to date.
Featuring the Radiance System Architecture the system provides
healthcare providers*:
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4-times the ultrasound pathways for more improved clarity and allowing
for spectacular 2D and 3D/4D images with increased penetration;
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10-times the data transfer rates for more speed and to give higher
resolution and very fast frame rates
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4-times the processing power for more flexibility with advanced
applications and efficient workflow.
“The Voluson Expert series systems deliver leading technologies
dedicated to helping improve the quality of patient care, enhancing
workflow and optimizing cost to the premium and high end markets,” said
Karl-Heinz Lumpi, General Manager of Women’s Health Ultrasound for GE
Healthcare. “Through our newest system, the Voluson E10, and its
industry-first features, we hope to provide healthcare providers with
GE’s latest tools they seek to help provide better care for more women
around the world.”
The system supports the eM6C, the first commercially available curved
matrix electronic 4D probe designed specifically for the needs of OB/GYN
imaging. Electronic 4D technology was designed to provide new
opportunities in 4D imaging with ultra-fast volume rates, flexible
imaging formats and the excellent resolution.
“The electronic 4D technology may revolutionize imaging of the fetal
heart.” Said Dr. Greggory DeVore, ‘”This eM6C probe offers diagnostic
possibilities for Real-Time 4D imaging that helps reduce movement
artifact. The new eSTIC technology conquers the limitations of
resolution affected by the sweep angle and artifacts associated with
color/power Doppler ultrasound of the fetal heart. This is the probe for
physicians who are serious about fetal echocardiography.“
HDlive Technology*
In 2011 Voluson introduced HDlive, an industry-first technology
providing healthcare providers access to 3D/4D images with exceptional
anatomical realism. HDlive helps increase depth perception
through the use of a moveable light source. The moveable light source
acts as virtual flash light (torch), which may be positioned throughout
the volume to highlight areas of interest and enhance background shadows
for greater depth perception.
This anatomical realism has now been taken to the next level with the
introduction of two new innovative software applications– HDlive
Silhouette and HDlive Flow. HDlive Silhouette
provides the user greater flexibility in displaying internal as well as
external structures. This is especially helpful in the 1st
trimester where clinicians can evaluate developing structures, such as
the brain, as well as external features such as the face, extremities,
hands and feet.
HDlive Flow adds our HDlive technology to 3D/4D color
Doppler images. This technique provides vascular structures with more
realism, providing increased depth perception and demonstrating vessels
in different imaging planes.
For healthcare providers, access to HDlive can enrich
communication with the patient and increase confidence due to the
imaging technology’s contribution to an advanced level of care.
Additionally,, HDlive can help achieve a deeper understanding of
relational anatomy and help enhance diagnostic confidence. It may help
reveal details that are not usually visible.
“The HDlive flow is one the most exciting and beneficial 3D tools in
recent memory,” said Dr. Rabih Chaoui. “The use of the technology allows
for improved visualization of blood flow with more spatial precision.
Additionally, changing light direction through HDlive provides more
information of flow in close neighboring vessels and enhances details
recognition. With HDlive, healthcare providers will be able to view
spatial anatomy of the fetal vasculature in a way I have not seen
before.”
About GE Healthcare
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services to meet the demand for increased access, enhanced quality and
more affordable healthcare around the world. GE (NYSE: GE) works on
things that matter - great people and technologies taking on tough
challenges. From medical imaging, software & IT, patient monitoring and
diagnostics to drug discovery, biopharmaceutical manufacturing
technologies and performance improvement solutions, GE Healthcare helps
medical professionals deliver great healthcare to their patients.
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*As compared to GE Healthcare’s Voluson Expert Series BT13
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