Aixplorer® 's Ergonomics and UltraFast™ Platform Improve User Comfort While Enhancing Diagnostic Effectiveness

AIX-EN-PROVENCE, France --(Business Wire)--

SuperSonic Imagine's revolutionary Aixplorer ultrasound system has built a solid reputation as a system "designed by and for practitioners." Every aspect of Aixplorer's design has been carefully considered by company engineers in unison with radiologists and sonographers to provide optimum comfort and ease of use. Aixplorer's state-of-the-art UltraFast computing platform also enables advanced applications allowing practitioners to reduce examination times while enhancing diagnostic confidence and effectiveness.

Aixplorer Ergonomic Design Advantages

Aixplorer's ergonomic designs can significantly enhance user comfort and efficiency. Aixplorer has a control panel that is completely adjustable and a 20-inch wide screen with a multi-joint arm that can be adapted to any workspace or angle. The user interface is very intuitive, featuring a touchscreen, trackball and touch ring allowing for quick access to various applications and features. The system also offers very fine adjustment of parameters such as manual and automatic TGC to achieve the finest image quality, quickly.

Aixplorer has consistently earned high critical acclaim by physicians who value and seek out advanced ergonomic designs:

"With the Aixplorer there is a decrease in operator dependence, workflow is easy and the control panel is simple to understand."
Professor Dr Med. Helmut Madjar - Breast Center German Diagnostic Clinic, Wiesbaden, Germany

"The Aixplorer is very ergonomic, very comfortable to use. It is a solid system that we have had for one and a half years without any technical problems."
Professor Dr Med. Fritz Schäfer - University Hospital Schleswig-Holstein, Kiel, Germany

UltraFast ™ technology enables the world's fastest ultrasound image acquisition and unmatched workflow

The UltraFast platform, developed by SuperSonic Imagine and only available on Aixplorer, acquires information 100 tims faster than any conventional ultrasound system. This processing speed has, for the first time, enabled physicians to visualize in great detail stiffness properties of tissue and transient phenomena that have never been seen before. By leveraging an UltraFast platform, Aixplorer's innovations such as quantitative ShearWave™ Elastography (SWE™) and UltraFast™ Doppler help improve visualization capabilities so that physicians can obtain information faster and improve their clinical workflow.

Both, Aixplorer's proprietary ShearWave™ Elastography (SWE™) and UltraFast™ Doppler modes are activated with the push of a single button instead of a series of complex manual adjustments which consume valuable time.

"ShearWave Elastography is very easy to use; one just hovers over the lesion and doesn't need to compress in the least. It is reproducible and the image quality of the B-mode, where you assess the morphology and characteristics of the lesion, is also excellent."
Professor Ellen Mendelson - Northwestern Memorial Hospital, Illinois, USA

UltraFast Doppler combines Color Doppler and Pulsed Wave Doppler into a single feature without compromises between acquisition speed, field of view and sensitivity. Vascular exams with UltraFast Doppler take only 3 seconds per area, with all measurements and analysis performed post examination, increasing patient throughput. UltraFast Doppler simplifies the vascular exam by showing peak velocity areas immediately and saves time over conventional Doppler modes where acquisitions must be repeated several times for the same exam and analysis must be completed with the patient present.

"We have very regular monitoring of [kidney] transplants, UltraFast Doppler saves us a lot of time while reducing the risk of error. All acquired data are stored, and they can be reviewed, measured, analyzed multiple times without the presence of the patient. In addition, the amount of data acquired provides the ability to view all the vessels in a very precise manner."
Dr. Hisham Tchelepi - Wake Forrest Baptist Medical Center, North Carolina, USA

Aixplorer, with its ergonomic advantages and UltraFast platform, is changing the landscape of clinical diagnosis practice and impacting medical economics.

SuperSonic Imagine is exhibiting at ECR (European Congress of Radiology), March 8^th-11^th, Booth n°5 Extension Expo A, Austria Center Vienna

About SuperSonic Imagine (www.supersonicimagine.com)

Founded in 2005 and based in Aix-en-Provence (France), SuperSonic Imagine is an innovative, international company specializing in ultrasound medical imaging. The company designs, develops, and markets a revolutionary ultrasound system, Aixplorer®, with a unique ultrasound imaging technology, called MultiWave™ Technology. This technology allows Aixplorer® to be the only ultrasound system that images two types of waves to better characterize tissue; an ultrasound wave to ensure impeccable image quality and a shear wave, ShearWave™ Elastography, to compute and display true tissue stiffness in real time by acquiring images nearly 200 times faster than conventional systems.

In 2009, SuperSonic Imagine was granted 510(k) clearance by the Food and Drug Administration in the United States and CE mark in Europe for the marketing of Aixplorer®. Distribution agreements have been signed with prestigious companies such as Hologic (Nasdaq : HOLX) for the breast market in the U.S.A. and Canon (News - Alert) (NYSE : CAJ) for Japan. SuperSonic Imagine's distribution network has now more than 35 partners worldwide.