General imaging
Breast ultrasound
Powerful tools aid breast tissue assessment
With powerful AI tools, high resolution image quality and outstanding ease of use, our ultrasound systems help you keep pace with the growing use of ultrasound for breast imaging. AI-powered KOIOS on-cart* and off-cart provides real-time decision support, helping you classify lesions while scanning. ElastQ imaging shear wave elastography assesses tissue stiffness to assist in determining malignancy. Next Gen AutoScan reduces button pushes for more efficient workflow.
Demonstrated results in Breast Ultrasound
Assess, monitor and treat breast disease
When mammography indicates a need for further testing, our portfolio of breast ultrasound imaging solutions is up to the task. AI-powered KOIOS reliably classifies breast lesions, designed to save time and enhance confidence. Our single transducer ultrasound solution delivers four key features that work together to effectively assess, monitor and treat breast diseases, including PureWave, elastography, Anatomical Intelligence and precision biopsy capabilities. This combination of excellent image quality with clinical tools aids physicians in efficient diagnosis and patient care.
AI-powered lesion classification, efficient biopsies and reduced need for repeat scans
- Use AI to automate risk scoring and classify breast ultrasound findings.
- Elevate diagnostic confidence, see pathology with high resolution and perform biopsies with fewer passes. [2]
- Improve productivity and reproducibility and rapidly determine tissue stiffness to assess a wide array of breast pathology. [4]
- Benefit from an efficient and intuitive experience with outstanding ease of use, improved image uniformity, and a reduced need for repeat scans. [3]
Advanced tools for breast ultrasound
- KOIOS AI decision support tool helps clinicians classify breast lesions, designed to reduce reporting time and increase diagnostic confidence.
- The eL18-4 and mL26-8 transducers provide excellent B-mode imaging, needle visualization that enhances the needle tip, strain and shear wave elastography and MicroFlow imaging.
- MicroFlow Imaging HD detects small vessel blood flow with twice the sensitivity and resolution of MicroFlow.[3]
- ElastQ Imaging shear wave and strain elastography reveal more definitive information on tissue stiffness in the breast.
- Precision biopsy capabilities reduce needle blind zones and enhance the display of needle reflections.
Image gallery
- Clinical image using EPIQ Elite and eL18-4 transducer to show breast lymph node axilla using MFI HD
- Clinical image using EPIQ Elite and eL18-4 transducer to show breast marker
- As demonstrated with the eL18-4 Transducer, Strain Elastography is a non-invasive, real-time imaging technique that displays an overlay of stiffness information over a greyscale 2D image.
- Clinical image using EPIQ Elite and eL18-4 transducer to show breast elastography fibroadenoma
- Clinical image using EPIQ Elite and eL18-4 transducer to show breast adenocarcinoma
- Superficial Cyst with Calcifications
- eL 18-4 transducer with 2D imaging
- Flow Viewer represents vascular flow topography with a 3D-like appearance and MicroFlow Imaging is designed to detect and assess blood flow anatomy in tissue.
- EPIQ Elite Elevate with L26-8 probe for Breast with Superficial Cyst
- Clinical image using EPIQ Elite and eL18-4 transducer to show breast trapezoid cyst in 2D
Featured solutions for Breast ultrasound
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. EPIQ shares the same workflow, interface and transducers as the Affiniti and Compact systems.
Affiniti
Designed for everyday challenges, Philips Affiniti systems feature a small footprint and intuitive interface. Price-conscious organizations unwilling to compromise on quality appreciate its impressive combination of performance, workflow advances and ability to tackle your clinical needs.
Compact 5000 Series
Designed for mobility and performance, the Compact 5000 series shares the same workflow, interface and transducers as the EPIQ and Affiniti systems. With a quick boot-up and long battery life, the system is ready to go whenever you need it, so you can bring breast ultrasound to wherever you need it.
The addition of elastography to every breast ultrasound has now produced a positive biopsy rate in excess of 80% vecayse fewer viopsies that are later found to be unnecessary are performed.
Richard G. Barr
FACR, FSRU, FAIUM
Documentation
Footnotes
- BI-RADS and TI-RADS are registered trademarks of the American College of Radiology.
- Internal documentation: Validation report D001785.
- As seen in, Breakthrough ultrasound solutions for breast imaging in clinical practice, December 2018.
- Introducing next-generation shear wave elastography for breast (Philips ElastQ), July 2018.
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