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GE Healthcare, a $17 billion unit of General Electric Company, announced new breakthrough technologies at the annual meeting of Radiological Society of North America (RSNA 2009) in Chicago.

The LOGIQ E9 general imaging ultrasound system Breakthrough 2010 expands its capabilities with new transducers and software enhancements to provide improved image quality and productivity to pediatric, vascular and cardiac imaging.

“The Breakthrough 2010 enhancements extend LOGIQ E9 ’s extraordinary imaging, expert tools and easy workflow to more clinical specialties. Innovative Agile Acoustic Architecture, E-Series transducers, expert tools like fusion and a new cardiac suite of tools - combine to create amazing capabilities that are truly expanding the boundaries of ultrasound,” said Brian McEathron, GE Healthcare General Manager, General Imaging Ultrasound.

Seven new transducers are being introduced in this Breakthrough 2010 covering cardiac, vascular and pediatric applications. Vascular enhancements in this release include Auto IMT (intima media thickness) and Cardiac tools include Q-Analysis, Tissue Velocity Imaging, CW, ECG, Color M-Mode and more.

LOGIQ P6 Breakthrough – The new features of the LOGIQ P6 general imaging system include enhancements to help improve image quality, workflow and sonographer comfort. Continuing the tradition of migrating advanced feature sets throughout the GE ultrasound portfolio, this system now benefits from advanced image optimization algorithms that provide improved 2D image quality. Real-time 4D has also been optimized to an improved performance level. Other enhancements include: new transducers, new hard drive, expanded reporting packages, and an enhanced 17” monitor.

Venue 40 – GE  Healthcare launched the new Venue miniaturized ultrasound product line. Venue 40, the first product launched, also is the first new product validated under GE’s healthymagination initiative, which is focused on improving quality and efficiency, increasing access, and reducing costs. An intuitive touch screen interface makes Venue 40 easy to use and clean, especially for clinicians who use ultrasound to make immediate care decisions, or guide procedures in Interventional Radiology. Its small size and streamlined cart allow for real-time imaging in the smallest of clinical spaces.

Voluson E8 Breakthrough 2009 – Voluson E8 Breakthrough 2009 includes innovative features to help provide improved workflow efficiencies, outstanding image quality, increased automation and improved speed for advanced imaging applications. A significant architecture enhancement is the new Dynamic Rendering Engine which helps provide stunning next-generation 3D rendering. Continued innovations in fetal cardiac, volume contrast imaging with OmniView, and Scan Assistant for quality assurance and improved workflow are just a few of the key features in this Breakthrough. This extensive Breakthrough can help clinicians stay on the forefront of women’s healthcare.

ViewPoint Breakthrough 2010 – Features to help increase efficiency and quality for practices of all sizes were introduced for the ViewPoint Ultrasound Reporting and Image Management solution. Highlights of Breakthrough 2010 include updates in vascular reporting as well as new thyroid reporting. Another new feature is Cluster Server Support, which enables users to run two separate servers at a time to help ensure greater availability and less downtime. Radiology users will also appreciate a new third party interface to Hospital and Radiology Information Systems ( HIS / RIS ) as well as PACS systems. This Breakthrough release will help ensure raw data compatibility between ViewPoint and LOGIQ E9 and LOGIQ 9 for image and volume post processing with the LOGIQworks plug-in.

Source: GE Healthcare

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