Analogic Corporation will showcase its BK Medical Flex Focus 500 ultrasound system, the SonixTablet with GPS needle guidance, and the SonixTouch Research systems at the American Institute of Ultrasound in Medicine (AIUM) 2013 Annual Convention.
The BK Medical-branded Flex Focus 500 with Quantum Technology offers image quality enhancements such as improved contrast resolution, gray scale maps, and image pre-sets, that make it easy to obtain high quality images. In addition, Quantum Technology incorporates unique Vector Flow Imaging mode, enabling angle independent visualization of blood flow, and a color Doppler mode, enabling spatial resolution. Key benefits also include harmonic imaging for imaging difficult-to-image patients.
The SonixTablet with SonixGPS ultrasound guidance technology is a compact ultrasound system with a 19-inch high-resolution touch screen. The system offers features and options designed to make interventional procedures more precise by enabling clinicians to position the transducer in the ideal location for the target and select a needle angle that is direct and most comfortable for each patient. The SonixTablet also offers a needle enhancement feature called SonixShine, which highlights the needle in-plane with the push of a button.
The SonixTouch Research system offers clinicians the ability to acquire large cine loops of clinical data ranging from raw radio frequency signal in B-mode, color, pulsed wave, 3D/4D modes, or scan-converted data, to either 8 bits or 16 bits of envelope data.
In addition, there will be demonstrations of new credentialing, billing, and ultrasound image management software. The software platform is used to collect, store, grade, and report on the studies performed by emergency medicine doctors learning to perform ultrasound exams on patients.
