Ultrasound
Shear wave elastography
Simplify liver disease assessment
Available on the EPIQ and Affiniti platforms, shear wave elastography simplifies liver assessment, making obtaining liver stiffness measurements fast and easy. Philips ElastQ (2D-SWE) advances shear wave elastography, providing a technique that is not only non-invasive and easy to use, but also offers clinicians additional confidence in the reliability of measurements, even for the technically difficult patient (TDP), such as a patient with a high BMI.
Shearwave Technology
Assess liver status painlessly and non-invasively
Four key features work together to facilitate the assessment, treatment and monitoring of liver conditions. Real-time shear wave elastography for quantitative assessment of liver tissue stiffness; advanced transducers for superb resolution and penetration even on difficult to image patients; contrast-enhanced ultrasound for lesion detection and characterization; and image fusion and navigation for modality collaboration.
May reduce need for liver biopsies
ElastQ is a non-invasive, reproducible and easily performed method of assessing liver tissue stiffness that may help reduce, or even avoid, the need for conventional liver biopsies. Research suggests that instead of a costly and painful biopsy procedure, an easy ultrasound exam could become routine for assessing liver disease status.1
Quantitative assessment
With ElastQ shear wave elastography, clinicians can easily assess liver tissue stiffness using real-time feedback and make quantitative measurements with multiple sample points, even retrospectively on DICOM stored images.
Confidence-enhancing maps
Unique confidence maps, used with stiffness maps, improve clinical confidence of shear wave measurements. Both maps can be displayed side-by-side, which reduces workflow steps and allows for simultaneous map correlation during acquisition and measurement phases.
Designed for your everyday
Affiniti 70 offers a powerful combination of performance and workflow advances to enhance diagnostic confidence. 100% of users need little guidance when conducting their first exam on the system. It uses less energy than a toaster, and conserves energy by going to sleep and rebooting in seconds. Use Affiniti 70 to decrease exam time by 30% - 50% and easily scan technically difficult patients.2
Footnotes
- Ferraioli G, et al. Point shear wave elastography method for assessing liver stiffness. World J Gastroenterology. 2014 April 28;20(16):4787-4796.
- Philips usability study: N-49.
Disclaimer
Results are specific to the institution where they were obtained and may not reflect the results achievable at other institutions. Results in other cases may vary.