Press Articles

December 2014. By Trevor Bromley.

"Ultrasound with ShearWave Elastography technology pioneered by SuperSonic Imagine can assess liver disease non invasively using a quantifiable method that evaluates tissue elasticity. It does this through an ultrasound wave as well as a ShearWave, which can measure and display tissue stiffness in real time." .... "In some cases, such as assessing therapeutic progress or monitoring fibrosis, several biopsies are performed. A noninvasive method for these particular cases would be a welcome tool for clinicians"

November 2014

Until recently liver biopsies were performed to stage hepatic fibrosis in order to identify the suitable therapy. ‘Since any intervention in the human body is associated with risks – haemorrhage and infection for example – we have long been looking for an alternative method to determine liver tissue elasticity. Today shear wave elastography is exactly such a method,’ says Professor Christoph F Dietrich MD, Medical Director of Clinic II at Caritas Hospital in Bad Mergentheim, Germany.

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By Trevor Bromley - Published on November 4th 2014

"Ultrasound with shear wave elastography technology pioneered by SuperSonic Imagine can assess liver disease noninvasively using a quantifiable method that evaluates tissue elasticity. It does this through an ultrasound wave as well as a shear wave, which can measure and display tissue stiffness in real time."

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By Dr Richard Barr - Published in DI Europe October 2014

ShearWave Elastography has been shown to have higher sensitivity, specificity, positive predictive value (PPV), and negative predictive value (NPV) than existing modalities for the screening of prostate cancer.

By Medimaging International staff writers
Posted on 17 Aug 2014

The Paris Radiology Institute (IRP; France) has installed nine Aixplorer ultrasound systems, which can acquire images 200 times faster than conventional systems.
The Paris Radiology Institute, founded in 1970, was the first private outpatient center in France to have a mammography scanner installed in 1986. Since 2006, the IRP has utilized two dedicated breast screening areas that feature three three-dimensional (3D) digital mammography units, one of which equipped for macro biopsies. The senography areas include eight dedicated ultrasound units, of which one is used for interventional mammary ultrasound.
The Aixplorer, a product of SuperSonic Imagine (Aix-en-Provence, France), can image two types of waves: ultrasound waves, which ensure excellent image quality; and shear waves, which allow physicians to visualize and analyze the stiffness of tissue in a real-time, reliable, reproducible, and noninvasive manner. Termed ShearWave Elastography, the technology significantly improves the detection, characterization, and monitoring of various pathologies involving the breast, liver, prostate, thyroid and others; it also reduces the number of needless biopsies.

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