March 5th, 2011 (Aix-en-Provence, France)- Study Results with validation on European Sub Population were presented at the European Congress of Radiology (Vienna) on March 4thduring a conference symposium - SuperSonic Imagine presented the validation of a world wide multicentre study, based on European recruitment, confirming the benefit of ShearWave Elastography when added to ultrasound for improved lesion classification.
Launched by SuperSonic Imagine in June 2008, the global, multi-centre study was conducted across 16 American and European sites involving 1,800 patients with breast lesions.
The first major result of this study demonstrated that ShearWave Elastography is reproducible both quantitatively and qualitatively. This reproducible technology provides strong assurance of precise tissue evaluation during diagnosis and is expected to be also useful in follow-up.
The second important outcome is a statistical model based on 939 lesions, which showed that ShearWave Elastography increases the performance of ultrasound breast cancer diagnosis. The addition of ShearWave Elastography features, such as maximum elasticity (stiffness) or heterogeneity (uniformity) of a lesion, to B-mode ultrasound, would permit an improvement in the BI-RADS® classification accuracy, (standardization tool for breast lesion classification from the American College of Radiology) improving breast diagnosis...
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...About SuperSonic Imagine :
Founded in 2005 and based in Aix-en-Provence, France, SuperSonic Imagine is an innovative, multinational medical imaging company dedicated to developing a revolutionary ultrasound system: the Aixplorer®, This system leverages a unique MultiWave™ technology that enables the user to detect . characterize and, in the future, treat palpable and non-palpable masses. This unique technology is based on combining two types of waves: an ultrasound wave that provides exceptional imaging in B-mode, and a shear wave which measures and displays the stiffness of tissue in kilopascals (ShearWave Elastography™). Engineers from all over the world have joined the SuperSonic Imagine team and the company now has offices in Aix-en- Provence, Seattle, London and Munich... [PDF] SuperSonic Imagine's Press Release - PDF du communiqué de presse de SuperSonic Imagine -
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...About SuperSonic Imagine :
Founded in 2005 and based in Aix-en-Provence, France, SuperSonic Imagine is an innovative, multinational medical imaging company dedicated to developing a revolutionary ultrasound system: the Aixplorer®, This system leverages a unique MultiWave™ technology that enables the user to detect . characterize and, in the future, treat palpable and non-palpable masses. This unique technology is based on combining two types of waves: an ultrasound wave that provides exceptional imaging in B-mode, and a shear wave which measures and displays the stiffness of tissue in kilopascals (ShearWave Elastography™). Engineers from all over the world have joined the SuperSonic Imagine team and the company now has offices in Aix-en- Provence, Seattle, London and Munich... [PDF] SuperSonic Imagine's Press Release - PDF du communiqué de presse de SuperSonic Imagine -
