SuperSonic Imagine aims to reduce biopsies with ultrasound

French imaging company SuperSonic Imagine thinks its new imaging systems can change the biopsy game for the better, according to an interview with founder and chief strategic and innovation officer Jacques Souquet. SuperSonic Imagine’s flagship device is the Aixplorer ultrasound imaging device which uses the company’s proprietary ShearWave elastography and UltraFast Doppler blood flow imaging. Unlike other similar devices, SuperSonic’s uses software processing coupled with powerful processing boards produced by graphics company Nvidia, according to SuperSonic. “Being able to simplify things changed the paradigm of the system, which is very much hardware centric, to a system where the intelligence is in the software. We built the software system – every function that is developed in hardware’s competitive environment is now in a software environment,” Souquet told MassDevice.com in an interview While the idea isn’t unique to SuperSonic, Souquet said it is a 1st in medical imaging. The device, running off software, is able to analyze up to 20,000 frames per second. The number is too high for a human to visualize, but allows the software to do more with the data, Souquet said. “Now, you cannot visualize 20,000 frames per second, but this enables us to do lots of processing in the background to further enhance the performance of the product. It also enabled us to create a new mode of imaging on top of the conventional mode ...
Source: Mass Device - Category: Medical Equipment Authors: Tags: Imaging Ultrasound SuperSonic Imagine S.A. Source Type: news