(Aix-en-Provence, France) With its unique ShearWave™ Elastography, the Aixplorer ultrasound system exploits two types of waves; one ultrasound wave to ensure impeccable image quality in B-mode, and one shear wave to measure and display true local tissue elasticity in kilopascals.

SuperSonic Imagine presents, for the first time at the ECR, its new 3D breast package.

Impeccable 3D image quality:
The Aixplorer now offers 3D breast ultrasound, the latest technology for breast visualisation and lesion classification. Acquired 3D volumetric data together with 3D display features deliver new information of breast pathology.

With the Aixplorer 3D breast application, suspicious tissue can be visualised in any plane of a 3D volume, particularly in the coronal or C-plane for a high-resolution morphological assessment.

Industry first, quantitative ultrasound elastography in 3D:
Never seen before, patented 3D ShearWave Elastography offers physicians a 3D color-coded elasticity map of tissue stiffness in kilopascals.

In a single 3D acquisition, Aixplorer produces a reproducible, quantifiable (kPa) 3D elastography volume, as well as, a high-resolution 3D B-mode volume.

The 3D elastography map provides unprecedented clinical information of the elasticity distribution inside and around a breast lesion.

3D ShearWave Elastography improves lesion characterisation and is also a phenomenal clinical tool for lesion follow-up under treatment and surgical planning.

3D breast imaging is an outstanding tool to monitor lesions during chemotherapy. The quality of the images displayed, added to the tissues elasticity values, give physicians the ability to follow any change in the volume or the structure of a lesion before, during and after the treatment.

Clinical image: Invasive intraductal adeno-carcinoma
58 years old patient.
She presents with a palpable mass on the right breast.
2D B-mode image shows a hypoechoic spiculated millimetric mass, BI-RADS® 5.
The pathology result confirms an invasive intraductal adeno-carcinoma.




3D ShearWave Elastography MultiSlice coronal plane reconstruction of invasive intraductal adeno-carcinoma.

References: D. AMY; Radiology, Cabinet de Radiologie, Aix en Provence, FRANCE
High definition images available upon request.

About SuperSonic Imagine:
Founded in 2005 and based in Aix-en-Provence, France, SuperSonic Imagine is an innovative, multinational medical imaging company dedicated to developing a revolutionary ultrasound system: the Aixplorer®. This system leverages a unique MultiWave technology that enables the user to detect, characterize and, in the future, treat palpable and non-palpable masses. MultiWave technology is based on combining two types of waves: an ultrasound wave that provides exceptional imaging in B-mode, and a shear wave, ShearWave Elastography, which measures and displays the stiffness of tissue in kilopascals*. ShearWave Elastography is user-skill independent with reproducible results. Aixplorer is CE mark approved since 2008 and has FDA clearance since 2009 and has several clinical applications: breast (and 3D breast), thyroid, abdomen, liver, musculo-skeletal, prostate, and gynaecological (excluding obstetrics).

SuperSonic Imagine has both a direct sales and distribution network worldwide, including Hologic Inc. (Nasdaq: HOLX) for the breast care market in the USA and Canon Marketing in Japan. SuperSonic Imagine holds the exclusive right, title and interest to 25 international patents and submissions in diagnostic imaging and therapy applications. Company investors include Edmond de Rothschild Investment Partners (EdRIP), Auriga Partners, Crédit Agricole Private Equity (CAPE), NBGI Ventures, Bioam, Mérieux Développement, Wellington Partners, Innobio, Canon (NYSE:CAJ), and IXO Private Equity.

For further information about SuperSonic Imagine please visit our website:
www.supersonicimagine.com
http://www.supersonicimagine.fr
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Quantification tool available outside the USA