Ultrasound manufacturers address patient care with product innovations

March 10, 2008 Ultrasound manufacturers address patient care with product innovations John Bonner -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- One of the world's smallest portable scanners, a new approach to 3D imaging, an award-winning convertible platform, and a novel method for detecting deep body tumors are among the many ultrasound highlights in the Technical Exhibition at ECR 2008. Hitachi Medical Systems is unveiling its real-time tissue elastography technology on the company's range of Hi Vision ultrasound scanners. Although the technology is relatively new, the idea behind it is centuries old. Palpating tissue to investigate its stiffness is one of the oldest diagnostic procedures, first described by Hippocrates. Knowing that a tumor becomes palpable when its hardness is greater than the surrounding tissue, physicians in Ancient Greece used palpation to determine the size, shape, and even malignancy of a lesion.

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