AuntMimmie.com

New ultrasound techniques show promise in thyroid nodules
By Erik L. Ridley
AuntMinnie staff writer
February 5, 2010

Differentiating benign from malignant thyroid nodules can be difficult, but advanced ultrasound applications such as elastography, computer-assisted analysis, and 3D ultrasound may make that challenge a little easier, according to a trio of presentations at the 2009 RSNA meeting in Chicago.

 

To read full article, "auntmimmie.com"

Medscape

ENDO 2009: Dynamic Elastography Shows Promise as Diagnostic Tool for Thyroid Nodules

By Crina Frincu-Mallos, PhD

June 2009

A novel noninvasive diagnostic technique, shear-wave elastography (SuperSonic Imagine), is able to clearly differentiate between benign and malignant thyroid nodules on the basis of their tissue elasticity indices. These findings were presented here at ENDO 2009, the 91st Annual Meeting of The Endocrine Society.

 

To read full article, "www.medscape.com"

RT Image

A Conversation with. . . Jacques Souquet, PhD

By RT Image

January 2010

The diagnostic capabilities of ShearWave Elastography

 

To read full article, "RT Image"

MedicalPhysicsWeb

Transcranial HIFU : Relying on MRI

By Tami Freeman

January 2010

High-intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU) is employed for non-invasive treatment of an increasing number of diseases. Using HIFU to treat brain lesions, for example, could avoid the need for craniotomy. And though transcranial HIFU was once limited by aberrations induced when the ultrasound beam traversed the skull, the use of multi-element transducers now enables a sharp focus even through the skull bone.

 

To read full article, "medicalphysicsweb.org"

Diagnostic Imaging

Is elastography the next color Doppler?

By Greg Freiherr

December 2009

New ideas take time to catch on in medical imaging, whether they are brand new modalities, such as MR, or new techniques within an established modality, such as color Doppler ultrasound. It’s as though there are dues to be paid. Elastography appears to have paid its dues.

 

To read the full article, "Diagnostic Imaging"

Imaging Economics

A new ultrasound technology called Shear Wave Elastography promises to improve cost-effectiveness and enhance clinical workflow.

By Alda Cossi, MD

October 2009

A new ultrasound technology called Shear Wave Elastography has been developed that provides not only exceptional gray scale or B-mode imaging, but quantitative real-time ultrasound elastography as well. Shear Wave Elastography adds important information by quantitatively measuring soft tissue stiffness in real time.

 

To read the full article, Imaging Economics

Reuters

SuperSonic Imagine Receives FDA Approval for Aixplorer Ultrasound System

By Reuters

August 2009

Innovative ShearWave Elastography and Impeccable Image Quality Bring New
Levels of Diagnostic Capabilities to US Healthcare Market

To read the full article, Reuters

NBGI Ventures

SuperSonic Imagine Receives FDA Approval for Aixplorer Ultrasound System

By NBGI ventures

August 2009

Innovative ShearWave Elastography and Impeccable Image Quality Bring New Levels of Diagnostic Capabilities to US Healthcare Mark

 

To read the full article, NBGI Ventures

Hospital Imaging & Radiology Europe

An overview of sonoelastography

By David Cosgrove

Summer 2009

The field of sonoelastography is developing rapidly, with many innovative ideas that promise to translate into clinical advances.

David Cosgrove takes a look ar some of these developments.

 

Article from "Hospital Imaging & radiology Europe"

(Summer 2009, Issue)

Medical Imaging

Multiwave Ultrasound Elastography Improves Breast Lesion Detection

By Medimaging International staff writers

May - June 2009

(Vol.19 N°3)

A New MultiWave ultrasound technology has unique architecture that provides images in ultrasound-wave imaging or B-mode, as well as a new type of wave imaging, for precise, quantifiable, and reproducible real-time results.

To read the full article, Medical Imaging website

Imaging Technology News

Imaging Shear Waves for Sonoelastography

Shear wave elastography offers an alternative approach, using acoustic radiation force.

By: By David Cosgrove MA, MSc, FRCP, FRCR. emeritus prof, Imperial College, radiology department, Charing Cross Hospital, London; and WE Svensson FRCR, FRCSI, LRCPI, LRCSI, LM,Reader in Breast Imaging, consultant radiologist, Imperial College, radiology department, Charing Cross Hospital, London.

May 2009 Issue

Palpation, amongst the oldest of clinical skills, was used in ancient Egypt and is described in the Ebers’ papyrus (about 1552 BC) to feel for hard lumps in the breast as an indicator of malignancy (Sakorafas, G H. 2001). Essentially this is what is done with elastography: A region of tissue is subjected to a compression force (called stress) and the degree to which it distorts (known as strain) is assessed. While in principle any imaging technique could be used, ultrasound has the advantages of good resolution in both space and time and of being safe and thus repeatable, so it has emerged as the dominant technique, while MR also has a role.

 

To read the full article, Imaging Technology News website

 

Diagnostic Imaging

Elastography promises big changes in women's care

By  Greg Freiherr

February, 1, 2009

(Volume 31 N°2)

Ultrasound advances show at latest RSNA meeting characterize breast cancer through tissue stiffnes.

 

To read the full article, Diagnostic Imaging website

International Herald Tribune

Start-ups, and their culture, no longer a rarity in Europe

By John Tagliabue 

Tuesday, February 20, 2007

Business Section Page 13

 

AIX-EN-PROVENCE, France: Jacques Souquet had gone through several start-ups in Seattle, but he still was not entirely prepared for starting up a high-tech company in his native France. (...)

 

To read the full article, The International Herald Tribune website

The New York Times

Working in France, in Style of Silicon Valley

By John TAGLIABUE 

Friday, February 23,2007

Section: Business Day, Page C1

 

Aix-en-Provence, France - Jacques Souquet had gone through several start-ups in Seattle, but he still was not entirely prepared for beginning a high-tech company in his native France.

Failure is still a no-no here, creating a challenge for any start-up. Not to mention the idea that difficulty here seems a contradiction in terms for, after all, the word "entrepreneur" is French. (...)

 

To read the full article, The New York Time website