Simplify liver disease assessment with shear wave elastography
Simplify liver disease assessment
Available on the EPIQ and Affiniti platforms, shear wave elastography simplifies liver assessment, making obtaining liver stiffness measurements fast and easy. Philips ElastQ (2D-SWE) advances shear wave elastography, providing a technique that is not only non-invasive and easy to use, but also offers clinicians additional confidence in the reliability of measurements, even for the technically difficult patient (TDP), such as a patient with a high BMI.
Liver assessment made easy
In this video, learn about Philips shear wave ultrasound elastography’s value in assessing liver status painlessly and non-invasively.
Features
May reduce need for liver biopsies
ElastQ is a non-invasive, reproducible and easily performed method of assessing liver tissue stiffness that may help reduce, or even avoid, the need for conventional liver biopsies. Research suggests that instead of a costly and painful biopsy procedure, an easy ultrasound exam could become routine for assessing liver disease status.1
Quantitative assessment
With ElastQ shear wave elastography, clinicians can easily assess liver tissue stiffness using real-time feedback and make quantitative measurements with multiple sample points, even retrospectively on DICOM stored images.
Confidence-enhancing maps
Unique confidence maps, used with stiffness maps, improve clinical confidence of shear wave measurements. Both maps can be displayed side-by-side, which reduces workflow steps and allows for simultaneous map correlation during acquisition and measurement phases.
Fast results
ElastQ is so fast that you can add it to your routine abdominal scans for critical data early in the diagnostic process, and without compromising your lab schedule. Simply perform a right intercostal scan of the liver, set the ROI between 1 and 2 cm below the liver capsule avoiding vessels, and at a total depth of <8 cm, and press “Update.” In less than a second, the measurement results are displayed on the image.
Designed for your everyday
Affiniti 70 offers a powerful combination of performance and workflow advances to enhance diagnostic confidence. 100% of users need little guidance when conducting their first exam on the system. It uses less energy than a toaster, and conserves energy by going to sleep and rebooting in seconds. Use Affiniti 70 to decrease exam time by 30% - 50% and easily scan technically difficult patients.2
Shearwave elastography technology is available on
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EPIQ Elite
Philips EPIQ Elite ultrasound features an exceptional level of clinical performance, workflow, and advanced intelligence to meet the challenges of today’s most demanding practices. The EPIQ Elite platform brings ultimate solutions to ultrasound, with clinically tailored tools designed to elevate diagnostic confidence to new levels.
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Affiniti 70
Philips understand the challenges you face. From a changing patient population to the need to maximize resources, the challenges can be considerable. Philips Affiniti helps you overcome these daily challenges so you can provide the best possible care for your patients every day. Affiniti offers a powerful combination of performance and workflow advances to enhance diagnostic confidence making it the choice of clinicians worldwide.
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Documentation
- White paper
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Footnotes
1 Ferraioli G, et al. Point shear wave elastography method for assessing liver stiffness. World J Gastroenterology. 2014 April 28;20(16):4787-4796.
2 Philips usability study: N-49.
