Women's Ultrasound Technology Provides Knowledge-Based Workflow Applications

Latest acoustic technologies provide a powerful system optimized for excellent two-dimensional (2D), Doppler, and 3D/4D imaging for the demanding requirements in maternal-fetal medicine.

Featuring the new release of its premium Acuson S2000 ultrasound system-Women's Imaging and Acuson X300 ultrasound system, premium edition (PE)-Women's Imaging, Siemens Healthcare (Erlangen, Germany) highlighted the latest innovations in ob/gyn imaging at the Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine's (SMFM) 30th annual meeting held February 2010 in Chicago (IL, USA). Siemens presented advanced clinical applications that bring a new dimension of diagnosis and workflow enhancements to fetal ultrasound.

The Acuson S2000 system-Women's Imaging system features Siemens-exclusive knowledge-based workflow applications, such as eSieScan workflow protocols, enhancing examination processes and increasing the consistency of exams, while at the same time reducing keystrokes to enable shorter exam times and improve patient throughput.

The Acuson S2000 system-Women's Imaging also features fetal heart STIC (spatio-temporal image correlation) imaging, which captures data over multiple heart cycles and creates a 3D fetal heart volume, allowing sonographers to view the fetal heart in multiple planes.

Compact, portable, and easy to use, the Acuson X300 PE-Women's Imaging offers a complete obstetrics/gynecology imaging system. It provides exceptional clinical performance in B-mode, color Doppler, PW (pulsed wave) Doppler, and 3D/4D imaging. Offering dynamic tissue contrast enhancement (TCE) technology and TGO tissue grayscale-optimization technology, the system provides one-button optimization of B-mode images to shorten exam time, reduce repetitive motion, and provide greater consistency between users. fourSight 4D imaging technology enables streamlined, intuitive workflow and advanced acquisition, data rendering, and post-processing functionality for transabdominal and endovaginal 3D/4D exams.

One of the highlights of the Acuson S2000 system-Women's Imaging and the Acuson X300 system PE-Women's Imaging includes syngo Auto OB measurements, an advanced clinical tool that automates routine biometry measurements of the fetus. "Up until now, users needed to perform biometry measurements manually,” said Dr. Norbert Gaus, CEO, ultrasound, Siemens Healthcare. "syngo Auto OB measurements eliminate this time-consuming manual process saving up to 75% of the keystrokes in routine fetal measurements freeing users from repetitive tasks, so they can focus on their patients.”

The application also addresses the challenges related to user-dependence and variability, as well as consistency and reproducibility in fetal biometry. Measurements are automatically saved into the patient's report, and it includes the biparietal diameter (BPD), head circumference (HC), abdominal circumference (AC), femur length (FL), crown rump length (CRL), and the humerus length (HL).

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