Philips EPIQ 7 Ultrasound Machine

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Philips EPIQ 7

The evolution of premium ultrasound
Philips EPIQ7 ultrasound system

The new challenges in global healthcare

Unprecedented advances in premium ultrasound performance can help address the strains on overburdened hospitals and healthcare systems, which are continually being challenged to provide a higher quality of care cost-eff ectively. The goal is quick and accurate diagnosis the first time and in less time.

Premium ultrasound users today demand improved consistent exams that are easier to perform and allow for a high level of confidence, even for technically difficult patients. clinical information from each scan, and faster and more

Performance

More confidence in your diagnosis even for your most difficult cases

EPIQ 7 is the new direction for premium ultrasound, featuring an exceptional level of clinical performance to meet the challenges of today’s most demanding practices.

The evolution of premium ultrasound

It’s our most powerful architecture ever applied to ultrasound imaging – touching all aspects of acoustic acquisition and processing, allowing you to truly experience ultrasound’s evolution to a more definitive modality.

Supported by our family of proprietary xMATRIX and PureWave transducers and our leading-edge Anatomical Intelligence, this platform offers our highest level of premium performance.

Key trends in global ultrasound

• The need for more definitive premium ultrasound with exceptional image quality and intelligence that provides automated views and quantification
• A demand for greater workflow and throughput due to the aging global population resulting in increased ultrasound exam volumes. 
• A demand to automate most operator functions to allow for ease of use and consistency of exam between users
• The need for ultrasound to address the technically challenging patient
• A movement to use ultrasound first – even for advanced image-guided therapy – due to concerns about radiation dose and exam cost.

Creating new realities, redefining clinical expectations

nSIGHT Imaging goes beyond conventional ultrasound performance for new levels of definition and clarity.

Philips nSIGHT Imaging is a totally new approach
The Philips proprietary nSIGHT Imaging architecture introduces a totally new approach to forming ultrasound images. Unlike conventional systems that form the image line by line, nSIGHT creates images with superb resolution down to the pixel level.

Extraordinary architecture
nSIGHT Imaging incorporates a custom multi-stage precision beamformer along with massive parallel processing. This proprietary architecture captures an enormous amount of acoustic data from each transmit operation and performs digital beam reconstruction along with mathematically optimized focal processing to create real-time images with exceptional resolution and uniformity.

Image quality: the numbers tell the story

Comparing EPIQ 7 to conventional premium systems shows breakthrough advances in imaging performance.

• Up to 76% increase in penetration (penetration = ability to scan at depths and maintain resolution in order to complete the study*
• Up to 213% increase in temporal resolution (ability to maintain resolution at high frame rates)*
• Over 85% completion rate for technically challenging exams using nSIGHT Imaging and the PureWave C9-2, as demonstrated in clinical studies

Exceptional images for a new era

The next generation of Color Flow Imaging
nSIGHT Imaging architecture incorporates new color Doppler technology that increases flow resolution, sensitivity, and frame rate. New proprietary flow algorithms produce exceptional vessel border delineation while preserving 2D imaging characteristics in color Doppler modes. New color map options allow enhanced visualization of flow for color-blind users.

New MicroCPA for exceptional small vessel visualization
In the past, obtaining flow information in small low-flow vascular structures has been a challenge. Now the EPIQ’s MicroCPA feature – visualization of low velocity micro circulation – is quick and simple, allowing for more diagnostic confidence when evaluating organ perfusion or small vascular beds.

Maximize extreme clinical capabilities

xMATRIX is our most leading-edge, versatile ultrasound transducer technology
No other premium ultrasound system can run the complete suite of the world’s most innovative ultrasound transducers. With the touch of a button xMATRIX offers all modes in a single transducer: 2D, 3D/4D, Live xPlane, Live MPR, MPR, Doppler, color Doppler, and CPA.

nSIGHT Imaging makes powerful xMATRIX technology even more so
Achieve ultra-thin 2D slices. Use Live xPlane imaging to create two full resolution planes simultaneously, allowing you to capture twice as much clinical information in the same amount of time. Acquire near isovoxel resolution to reveal images from any plane within the volume. Now it’s all possible. Send 3D MPRs in the X, Y, and Z plane to any PACS system with MPR DICOM Export. Present superb, real-time 4D volume data in abdominal and obstetrical exams.

Greatly enhance the power of the X6-1 transducer for abdominal and OB applications
Now you can implement elevation compounding on the X6-1 with no frame rate penalty for enhanced speckle reduction and contrast resolution at all depths. Use the X6-1 to perform real-time 4D imaging of the fetal heart or obtain a full 90° x 90° volume sweep of the liver in less than 0.25 seconds.

Philips pioneered xMATRIX advanced technology

• Thin Slice 2D 
• Live xPlane imaging
• 3d/4D 

Leading-edge xMATRIX transducers for cardiology include X5-1 for adult cardiology and X7-2t for TEE applications.

The world’s first panoramic volume organ scan

Panoramic volume imaging uses Live xPlane imaging to acquire a calibrated volume over an extended field of view. Easily capture, visualize, and quantify a full organ (such as liver or pancreas), a full uterus, or a full fetus in a 3D panoramic volume

The power of PureWave to image technically difficult patients

PureWave crystal technology represents the biggest breakthrough in piezoelectric transducer material in 40 years. The pure, uniform crystals of PureWave are 85% more efficient than conventional piezoelectric material, resulting in exceptional performance. This technology allows for improved penetration in difficult patients with a single transducer while maintaining excellent detail resolution and Doppler sensitivity.

PureWave transducers offer enhanced technology for imaging technically difficult patients in a wide range of applications

• C5-1
• C9-2
• C10-3v
• S5-1
• X5-1
• X6-1
• X7-2
• X7-2t

Uniquely designed for elastography – revealing more definitive information on tissue stiffness

The EPIQ platform supports both strain and shear wave methods of elastography. Highly sensitive strain imaging can be used to rapidly assess relative tissue stiffness values across a variety of applications. Shear wave elastography utilizes a unique pulsing scheme to generate and detect the propagation speed of shear waves, providing an absolute measure of tissue stiffness. In addition, the EPIQ platform is designed to support the future of elastography including quantitative real-time shear wave imaging across a variety of transducers and applications.

Strain elastography

Philips strain elastography incorporates nanometer tissue strain tracking technology – a highly sensitive method of tracking tissue deformation requiring virtually no external compression for reproducible strain imaging results. Inherent patient physiologic movements provide the compression to generate the elastography image.

Shear wave elastography

ElastPQ uses ultrasound shear wave elastography to provide a non-invasive, reproducible and easily performed method of assessing tissue stiffness. A special pulse sequence technique using existing transducers produces shear waves in tissue and measures the propagation speed of the waves. Now tissue stiffness samples can be acquired during a routine ultrasound examination of the liver. According to the latest studies,1 using shear wave elastography may help reduce or avoid conventional liver biopsies. Many studies are suggesting that instead of a costly and painful biopsy procedure, an easy ultrasound exam becomes the routine method to assess liver disease status.

Fast and effective image fusion and needle navigation

Make confident decisions even in challenging diagnostic cases with fully integrated fusion capabilities that feature streamlined workflows to allow clinicians to achieve fast and effective fusion of CT/MR/PET with live ultrasound.

By combining imaging modalities directly on the ultrasound system, you now have access to an even more powerful diagnostic tool with advanced visualization allowing for fast clinical decisions.

Fusion and navigation

New Auto Registration – image fusion simplicity
EPIQ’s exclusive Anatomical Intelligence Ultrasound (AIUS) comes to image fusion with automated registration of CT and ultrasound volumes. Anatomical information within the CT volume is analyzed and automatically matched with the ultrasound structures, allowing the user to achieve image fusion within seconds – in 1/10 the standard alignment time. Now image fusion is quick and simple, allowing you to focus less on setup and more on the procedure.

Advanced needle navigation
Needle navigation is a performance-enhancing tool for challenging interventional cases such as a hard-to-visualize small-lesion biopsy or difficult-to-access ablations that are close to critical structures. Procedures may now be completed in less time and with fewer confirmatory scans.

A reusable adaptive needle tracker and an expanded range of coaxial needle tip tracked instruments offer you a wide range of compatibility with biopsy and ablation devices depending on the degree of procedure complexity.

Expand fusion and navigation capabilities through a range of transducers across applications, including the PureWave X6-1 xMATRIX, PureWave C5-1, C9-2 (abdominal), L12-5 (breast and small parts), C10-4ec (prostate), and S5-1 (transcranial fusion).

Revolutionize your contrast exam

Contrast-enhanced ultrasound (CEUS)* workflow is now seamlessly integrated into virtually any exam. EPIQ 7 provides immediate support of CEUS studies and exceptional performance across multiple agents and applications.

nSIGHT Imaging allows higher sensitivity to lower bubble concentrations while providing exceptional temporal resolution during critical wash-in/ wash out phases. Among leading ultrasound manufacturers, Philips offers the world’s only live 3D images using contrast for general imaging with real-time 3D contrast data for dynamic clinical assessment.

Designed to reinvent the user experience 

Contrast-enhanced ultrasound (CEUS)* workflow is now seamlessly integrated into virtually any exam. EPIQ 7 provides immediate support of CEUS studies and exceptional performance across multiple agents and applications.

EPIQ 7 has completely reinvented the premium ultrasound user experience. Ease of use, workflow, ergonomics, portability – we’ve revolutionized how you interact with an ultrasound system from every standpoint, and kept it beautifully intuitive.

More than 80% of sonographers experience work-related pain, and more than 20% of these suffer a career-ending injury. The EPIQ tablet-like interface results in a dramatic reduction in reach and button pushes, with 40% to 80% less reach and 15% fewer steps.

Advanced workflow
The design of the platform features “walk-up usability,” meaning that users can perform an exam with minimal training.4 The system offers the automation to drive efficiency throughout exams with features such as Real Time iSCAN (AutoSCAN), which automatically enhances gain and TGC continuously to provide excellent images in 2D, 3D, or 4D.

Amazingly portable
At just 104 kg (230 lb), EPIQ 7 is lightest in its class and 40% lighter than the heaviest competitive premium system. Easily transport EPIQ 7 on both carpet and tile floors. Place it in sleep mode, move it, and boot up in seconds. The monitor folds down to reduce overall system height for transport, and the integrated cable hooks and catch tray are ideal for portable studies. Wireless DICOM further aids workflow.

Tablet-like touch interface allows quick navigation to system functions with 40% to 80% less reach and 15% fewer steps to complete an exam.

Library quiet
EPIQ 7 is almost silent when running. A noise test determined that EPIQ 7 runs at 37-41 dB, which is equivalent to the sound of a library.

Scanning comfort
Multiple degrees of articulation for both the control panel, and 54.6 cm LCD monitor with 720° of freedom, allows for ergonomic alignment, whether sitting or standing, for scanning comfort.

SmartExam
SmartExam decreases exam time by 30-50%, keystrokes by as many as 300 per exam, and results in a high level of consistency among users.5 It is fast and easy to customize, providing consistent annotation, automatic mode switching, and missed view alerts to streamline exams. The result is more time to focus on your patients, increased confidence in complete studies, less focus on requirements, less repetitive motion, less stress, and improved schedule maintenance and department efficiencies.

Auto Doppler for vascular imaging
Auto Doppler takes time-consuming color box positioning and sample volume placement from ten steps to three steps and reduces the number of repetitive button pushes by an average of 68%.

Active native data
Active native data allows for post-processing of many exam parameters.

Set-up Wizard
Set-up Wizard allows users to step up to the system, easily establish user configurations, and get running quickly

Access to multimodality images
Use multimodality query retrieve to view DICOM images such as CT, NM, MR, mammography, and ultrasound. Easily compare past and current studies without the use of an external reading station and even review these multimodality images while live imaging.

Intelligence turning images into answer

Anatomical Intelligence is the heart of EPIQ 7

At the heart of the powerful EPIQ 7 architecture is our Philips exclusive Anatomical Intelligence Ultrasound (AIUS), designed to elevate the ultrasound system from a passive to an actively adaptive device. With advanced organ modeling, image slicing, and proven quantification, exams are easy to perform, more reproducible, and deliver new levels of clinical information.

AIUS ranges from automating repetitive steps to full-blown computer-driven analysis with minimal user interaction – all using anatomic intelligence and all providing the results you need. In fact, many of our tools come with ZeroClick technology, which means that once loaded, the tool does it all for you.

Q-App quantification applications

EPIQ 7 offers a wide variety of sophisticated Q-Apps to quantify ultrasound image information.

General Imaging Q-Apps 

• Intima Media Thickness (IMT)
• General Imaging 3D Quantification (GI 3DQ)
• Region of Interest (ROI)
• MicroVascular Imaging (MVI)
• Vascular Plaque Quantification (VPQ)

Cardiology Q-Apps

• Strain Quantification (SQ)
• Cardiac 3D Quantification (3DQ)
• Cardiac 3D Advanced Quantification (3DQ Advanced)
• CMQ Stress
• Mitral Valve NavigationA.I. (MVNA.I.)
• Automated 2D Cardiac QuantificationA.I. (a2DQA.I.)
• Automated Cardiac Motion QuantificationA.I. (aCMQA.I.)

Anatomical Intelligence
Achieve new levels of simplicity

Automation

Automated 2D Cardiac QuantificationA.I. (a2DQA.I.) with ZeroClick technology for adult and pediatric echo
The ideal tool of every echo lab, Automated 2D Cardiac QuantificationA.I. (a2DQA.I.) with ZeroClick technology uses AIUS for an Auto-ROI to drive the Q-App and provide rapid access to proven 2D EF and volumes. AutoEF is available during the study and so fits in with an everyday echo protocol.

 

Automated Cardiac Motion QuantificationA.I. (aCMQA.I.) with ZeroClick technology for adult echo
The ZeroClick technology of the Automated Cardiac Motion QuantificationA.I. (aCMQA.I.) uses speckle mechanics to provide reproducible 2D Global Longitudinal Strain (GLS) speckle measurements. A proven EF is also calculated by using the Auto-ROI that drives the automation within the aCMQA.I. Q-App.

Automatic registration for image fusion and navigation
CT and ultrasound vessel and surface registration allow you to complete the challenging task of registering a CT volume with ultrasound in less than one minute – 1/10 the standard alignment time.

Navigation 

The Mitral Valve NavigatorA.I. (MVNA.I.)
The Mitral Valve NavigatorA.I. (MVNA.I.) is designed to take a Live 3D volume of the mitral valve and turn it into an easyto- interpret model in eight guided steps, providing access to a comprehensive list of MV measurements and calculations. Internal comparison of MVQ to MVNA.I. tools measures 89% fewer clicks

The Mitral Valve NavigatorA.I. (MVNA.I.)
The Mitral Valve NavigatorA.I. (MVNA.I.) is designed to take a Live 3D volume of the mitral valve and turn it into an easyto- interpret model in eight guided steps, providing access to a comprehensive list of MV measurements and calculations. Internal comparison of MVQ to MVNA.I. tools measures 89% fewer clicks

MVNA.I. saves steps at each part of the process
Annulus data is acquired with 74% fewer clicks,3 which also provides leaflet tracing with no user interaction. MVNA.I. guides the entire process using simple commands and clear graphics, making this a much easier tool to use than previous mitral quantification tools. Results derived from MVNA.I. can be seen on the screen as they become available, speeding the process of accessing required data.

Vascular Plaque Quantification (VPQ)
Vascular Plaque Quantification is a non-invasive tool that uses 3D technology to visualize and quantify both the overall volume of vascular plaque in the carotid artery and the percent area of vessel reduction, as well as other characteristics of plaque composition. VPQ may prove to be a valuable tool to aid in determining who is at an increased risk of stroke or cardiovascular disease based on this important measurement of plaque buildup in the carotid artery.

Advanced support services are proactive and predictive

We understand your challenges: uncertain economic times, changing healthcare landscapes, and the impact of healthcare reform. We know that efficient workflows and system uptime are critical success factors in running an effective healthcare business.

Philips is committed to offering innovative solutions to provide you with world-class services that move from reactive to proactive and with predictive service models that provide high system availability and enhanced workflow to help you deliver high-quality patient care.