Siemens Showcases Latest Ultrasound Technologies at AIUM 2008

SAN DIEGO, March 12 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Siemens Healthcare (www.siemens.com/healthcare) highlights three new ultrasound solutions - the ACUSON S2000(TM) ultrasound platform with paradigm shifting technologies such as tissue strain analytics, and the ACUSON X300(TM) ultrasound system, premium edition, a complete solution to general imaging and cardiovascular applications, and the laptop-based ACUSON P50(TM) echocardiography system - at the annual conference of the American Institute of Ultrasound in Medicine (AIUM), March 12-15, in San Diego.

The ACUSON S2000 is the first system of Siemens' new generation of ultrasound products and is the company's new premier general imaging platform. Its paradigm-shifting strain imaging and quantification capabilities, Virtual Touch(TM) tissue imaging and Virtual Touch tissue quantification*, use acoustic energy to displace tissue for a qualitative and quantitative assessment of deep tissue stiffness, the world's first implementation of Acoustic Radiation Force Impulse (ARFI) imaging. Current research suggests that this type of assessment may be useful for differentiation of abnormalities, such as liver tumors or the quantification of fibrosis progression.

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