Image: The HI Vision Preirus ultrasound scanner (photo courtesy Hitachi Medical Systems).

A new ultrasound system's powerful imaging electronics with unique ergonomics are integrated into a compact, easy to use system. It is the first ultrasound system to use cell processor technology and Smart Touch operation featuring a touch screen integrated with the liquid crystal display (LCD) display for increased scanning efficiency.

Hitachi Medical Systems America, Inc. (Twinsburg, OH, USA) announced the availability of the HI Vision Preirus ultrasound scanner to the U.S. market. "Although it is just being released to the U.S. market, Preirus has been available in Europe and Japan for more than a year now and is proving to be one of the most successful scanners in Hitachi's long history of ultrasound products,” said Matthew Ernst, marketing manager for ultrasound.

The award-winning design of Preirus is complemented by a wide selection of transducers for every clinical need. Each probe is engineered with application-specific crystal array characteristics and architecture, from Hitachi's V53W transvaginal probe with its slender design and 200° field of view to its four-dimensional (4D) volumetric imaging probes, both linear and curved, or its laparoscopic probe with a thin insertion shaft enabling the use of a 10-mm trocar.

The Preirus also supports advanced imaging with optional features of real-time tissue elastography, which applies the essential concept of palpation to ultrasound imaging and real-time virtual sonography that correlates magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), computed tomography (CT), or ultrasound volumes to a live ultrasound exam, and displays them both side by side in real-time during scanning.

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