Toshiba extends ultrasound reach in breast imaging

December 2, 2008 DiagnosticImaging.com. Toshiba extends ultrasound reach in breast imaging By Greg Freiherr Toshiba America Medical Systems has positioned its MicroPure ultrasound technology as a way to better characterize microcalcifications. The new technology, showcased at RSNA 2008 on Toshiba's Aplio XG ultrasound scanner, improves the detection of small calcifications that otherwise may evade detection with ultrasound. The company also presented its work-in-progress ElastoQ, which displays differences in the relative elasticity of tumor and surrounding tissue by assigning colors to a tomographic image or, alternatively, as a graph. When using ElastoQ, tissue is examined while it is slightly compressed and then when it is decompressed. Cancerous tissue tends to have a significantly lower elasticity than healthy tissue. Like MicroPure, ElastoQ runs on the Toshiba Aplio XG.

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