EPIQ 5 Sector Array Ultrasound Transducer Probe IU22 S12-4 Hospital

Sector Array Ultrasound Transducer Probe IU22 S12-4 Hospital Use

S12-4 Sector array ultrasound transducer

1. Type: sector
2. Frequency: 4.0-12.0 MHz
3. Compatible system: EPIQ 5, Epiq 7, CX50
4. Application: pediatric and adult cardiology

Knowledge point

The S12-4 phased sector ultrasound transducer is compatible with iE33, HD11XE, and HD11 ultrasound systems. The S12-4 probe can be utilized for pediatric and adult cardiology applications. It features epicardial imaging and also new cable technology that is flexible and lightweight. The array is in great condition and can be purchased from Rongtao Medical new or used.

Molecular ultrasonography (ultrasound molecular imaging)

The future of contrast ultrasonography is in molecular imaging with potential clinical applications expected in cancer screening to detect malignant tumors at their earliest stage of appearance. Molecular ultrasonography (or ultrasound molecular imaging) uses targeted microbubbles originally designed by Dr Alexander Klibanov in 1997; such targeted microbubbles specifically bind or adhere to tumoral microvessels by targeting biomolecular cancer expression (overexpression of certain biomolecules occurs during neo-angiogenesis or inflammation processes in malignant tumors). As a result, a few minutes after their injection in blood circulation, the targeted microbubbles accumulate in the malignant tumor; facilitating its localization in a unique ultrasound contrast image. In 2013, the very first exploratory clinical trial in humans for prostate cancer was completed at Amsterdam in the Netherlands by Dr Hessel Wijkstra.

In molecular ultrasonography, the technique of acoustic radiation force (also used for shear wave elastography) is applied in order to literally push the targeted microbubbles towards microvessels wall; firstly demonstrated by Dr Paul Dayton in 1999. This allows maximization of binding to the malignant tumor; the targeted microbubbles being in more direct contact with cancerous biomolecules expressed at the inner surface of tumoral microvessels. At the stage of scientific preclinical research, the technique of acoustic radiation force was implemented as a prototype in clinical ultrasound systems and validated in vivo in 2D and 3D imaging modes.

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