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ULTRASOUND SYSTEM
For more than a century, GE Healthcare has been inventing medical technologies. In ultrasound, GE’s continuous stream of breakthroughs have redefined the standards for image quality, accelerated the development of new applications and increased clinical efficiency for users worldwide.
The versatile LOGIQ® 7 ultrasound system from GE Healthcare integrates performance capabilities needed to conduct a complete range of advanced imaging procedures. With LOGIQ 7 clinicians can acquire and construct volumetric images at tremendous speeds – enabling the scan of an entire organ, such as a kidney or liver, within seconds. LOGIQ 7 utilizes TruScan™ architecture that allows the system to acquire and store raw image data. This data allows clinicians to virtually rescan patients after they have left the exam room; either on the system or on remote workstations, increasing their diagnostic confidence while reducing patient time in the exam room as well as the number of patient rescans. The LOGIQ 7 system also provides physicians a variety of “virtual” re-scan modes, which allows them to compare several different perspectives of an image at once during the virtual rescan.
Typical LOGIQ 7 Procedures
· Breast
· Abdominal
· Cardiac
· Vascular
· Small Parts
· Urology
· OB/GYN
· Musculoskeletal
· Reduces need for ultrasound rescans – Volume Ultrasound with raw data allows the physician to do virtual rescans and navigate or manipulate the image view, even after the patient has gone home
· Patient comfort feature improves the patient experience
· GE’s transducers are designed with patient comfort in mind, to reduce stress without compromising diagnostic capability
incorporated with raw data volume imaging.
Physician/Technologist Benefits
· The ability to reinterpret and reexamine data in different planes after the patient has left the examination table
· Comprehensive and reliable exam data – for greater diagnostic confidence
· Improved productivity – reduces rescans needed
· Easy to compare images to previous exams and historical data – for example, it is especially helpful when assessing nodules, such as those in the thyroid. In volume, it is easy to compare each nodule to what it looked like in the previous visit using historical data.
· Fast – quickly acquire and construct volumetric images, enabling the scan of an entire organ, such as the kidney, within seconds
· Ergonomic design is focused on providing an exceptional scanning experience
· Interrogating raw data volumes of ultrasound data affords the opportunity to get more information from a single exam
· Provides a dynamic real-time look that helps reduce opportunity for missed information
Key Technology/Key Components
· TruScan Architecture – GE’s exclusive, software-based, ultrasound imaging platform, provides physicians with outstanding computational power, image-manipulation capability, workflow flexibility and product upgradeability
§ Gives clinicians image reading flexibility: they can readjust or re-measure all exam parameters and controls after the exams - today or years from now - on stored raw data that provides first-generation image quality
§ Lets physicians choose their storage media preference, including CD-RW and DVD, offering increased flexibility in managing and retrieving information. Images can be saved and reviewed on desktop or laptop computers.
§ Designed for healthcare needs today and tomorrow, keeping physicians at the forefront of technology by unlocking the stored raw data for additional analysis using future technology
· Speckle Reduction Imaging (SRI) – Minimizes the image noise that creates a “Grainy” appearance that until now has limited ultrasound image quality. SRI removes speckle without reducing detail in the resulting image. It enables clinicians to see body structures in sharper, clearer detail, helping to improve diagnostic confidence.
· VoiceScan – Allows sonographers (the technicians who perform ultrasound exams) to control the LOGIQ 7 system using voice commands. This means that they can focus less on the control of the machine and pay more attention to keeping the patient comfortable and properly positioned for an accurate study.
· CrossXBeam™ technology – Enables the ultrasound system to produce sharp images with higher contrast resolution and less noise. This technology is especially useful in detecting and examining lesions in the breast.
· Matrix Array Technology – Utilizes multiple rows of elements to achieve uniform resolution throughout the field of view, reducing volume averaging and improving overall consistency of the image
· B-Flow and B-Flow color – Magnifies the blood cells to enable the clinician to visualize actual hemodynamic flow in color without impacting frame rate or causing color overwrite.
· Total ultrasound procedures in the U.S. in 2004 were 62.3 million
· According to the National Library of Medicine, trauma is the second leading cause of lost years of life in the United States. Trauma is an unbiased occurrence that affects Americans of any age, sex, or ethnicity.
· According to the American Cancer Society, more than one million Americans get cancer each year
· Cancer affects approximately 10 million people worldwide, according to the World Health Organization
· GE Healthcare is the world's #1 provider of ultrasound technology. *
About GE Healthcare
GE Healthcare provides transformational medical technologies that will shape a new age of patient care. GE Healthcare’s expertise in medical imaging and information technologies, medical diagnostics, patient monitoring systems, disease research, drug discovery and biopharmaceuticals is dedicated to detecting disease earlier and tailoring treatment for individual patients. GE Healthcare offers a broad range of services to improve productivity in healthcare and enable healthcare providers to better diagnose, treat and manage patients with conditions such as cancer, Alzheimer’s and cardiovascular diseases.
GE Healthcare is a $14 billion unit of General Electric Company (NYSE: GE) that is headquartered in the United Kingdom. Worldwide, GE Healthcare employs more than 42,500 people committed to serving healthcare professionals and their patients in more than 100 countries. For more information about GE Healthcare, visit our website at www.gehealthcare.com.
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