Ultrasound

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.

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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

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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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Featured product

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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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.

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