Press articles
European Hospital (WFUMB)
True values versus relative measurements.
ShearWave Elastography in prostate cancer diagnostics.
Professor Correas
August 2011
Detecting prostate cancer with transrectal ultrasound using strain elastography is quite tricky: it works by applying pressure to the transducer to measure relative stiffness of tissue, Professor Correas points out and states that ‘more than 80 percent of prostate cancer develops in the peripheral zone which is against the rectal wall. If we apply pressure to this zone the deformation of the gland is not spatially homogeneous.
European Hospital
ShearWave Elastography enters new applications and medical fields
March 02, 2011
In 2005, when they founded the French ultrasound company SuperSonic Imagine, Jacques Souquet PhD and Claude Cohen-Bacrie had to convince radiologists that they not only offered a new product but also a completely new ultrasound technology that could measure entirely new parameters.
To read the full article "European Hospital"
DOTmed Business News
The Next Level for Ultrasound Diagnostics - Shear Wave Elastography
November 2010
By David Cosgrove, MD
Significant additional information to the ultrasound diagnostic proces is being added through a new multiwave ultrasound technology. This technology is being used to provide not only informative morphological B-mode images but also true tissue elasticity information, through a complementary imaging tool known as shear wave elastography.
To read the full article "DOTmed Business"
Hospital Imaging & Radiology Europe
Preliminary results of multicentre ShearWAve Elastography study
Hospital Imaging & Radiology Europe Vol 5 No 3 - Autumn 2010
ShearWave Elastography, added to the BI-RADS score, significantly improves breast lesion diagnosis and increases the percentage of correctly classified lesions
Article from "Hospital Imaging & Radiology Europe"
(registration required)
European Hospital
Promising preliminary breast trial results
May 03, 2010
During a symposium at ECR 2010 SuperSonic Imagine presented the preliminary results of the largest breast trial ever undertaken by an ultrasound company involving 956 breast cases.
Some of them were presented to approximately 350 visitors by Prof. Ingrid Schreer, Kiel, Germany.
To read the full article, "European Hospital"
PR Newswire
SuperSonic Imagine Unveils Results of Largest Breast Ultrasound Clinical Trial Ever Undertaken
AIX-EN-PROVENCE, France
April 23, 2010
SuperSonic Imagine, the innovative medical imaging company based in Aix-en-Provence, France has unveiled some of the results of the largest clinical breast study ever undertaken in ultrasound imaging. The worldwide multicenter study, involving top clinicians in the breast radiology community, is assessing the clinical benefits of ShearWave™ Elastography in the ultrasonic evaluation of breast lesions.
To read the full article, "PR Newswire"
DiagnosticImaging.com
ShearWave elastography improves breast lesion Dx
Better noninvasive classification of suspicious findings could reduce the need for biopsies
By Greg Freiherr
May 2, 2010
Reducing the number of breast biopsies by better classifying suspicious lesions noninvasively could improve healthcare and cut healthcare costs, laudable goals in the current era of healthcare—and economic—reform. Shearwave ultrasound elastography, cleared by the FDA in August 2009 as part of SuperSonic Imagine's Aixplorer, may do the trick.
To read the full article, "DiagnosticImaging.com"
Journal of Diagnostic Medical Sonography
Elastography: Imaging of Tomorrow?
Dae M. Pickerell, RT(R), RDMS, RVT
May/June 2010, Volume 26, No. 3
Elastography is a method of imaging that produces a type of image, called an elastogram. An area of research for almost 30 years, this diagnostic, noninvasive technique is used to evaluate the stiffness of soft tissues. It is done in correlation with a conventional sonogram. Elastography transmits information about internal tissue structures that has not been previously attainable. Discussion includes three types of elastography imaging: strain imaging, color elasticity, and shear-wave imaging. This imaging is based on the fundamentals of strain imaging and the basis that malignant tumors are harder than benign tumors. Stiffer tissues such as masses distort less than softer tissues, and the variation can be visualized on the elastic properties seen on the elastogram. Currently, elastography is being used in many applications, yet there is still reluctance by some in the medical community to fully accept elasticity imaging. Quantification and reproducibility of images will ensure the fate of this addition to the field of sonography.
To access the full article "Journal of Diagnostic Medical Sonography"
cancernetwork.com
Elastography jockeys to replace some biopsies
By Greh Freiherr
December 8, 2009
Ultrasound elastography may be the link bridging the gap between suspicion and definitive proof, a noninvasive means to distinguish between benign and malignant tissue. The technology for doing so appeared some years ago at the annual meeting of the Radiological Society of North America as an experimental curiosity. It’s been evolving since then until it appears now to have reached a clinical tipping point.
To read the full article "cancernetwork.com" or download the pdf
Imaging Economics
The Last Word
Focusing Technological Innovation
By Claude Cohen-Bacrie
March 24, 2010
Validating new technologies demands rigorous clinical investigations, with solid statistics that demonstrate product benefits.
In an era of health care reform, medical equipment is being scrutinized more and more. This critical eye on over-utilization, particularly for imaging modalities, should prompt companies to develop medical technologies that demonstrate clear and significant clinical benefits with both patient care and cost-effectiveness improvement. This requires a commitment to rigorous clinical investigations, with solid statistics to reveal product benefits in a simple, straightforward, and convincing way.
To read full article, "Imagingeconomics.com"
RAD Magazine
The emergence of shear wave elastography in ultrasound
By Jeremy Bercoff, phD (SuperSonic Imagine, France)
February 22, 2010
Today, a new diagnostic imaging modality has emerged, called shear wave elastography, that uses ultrasound to quantitatively assess tissue differences in stiffness. It provides an imaging representation of what was historically assessed qualitatively by palpation.
To read the full article "RAD Magazine"
AuntMinnie.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"
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
Assessing tissue stiffness may boost breast imaging specificity
Technological advances that have reduced operator dependence bring the possibility that elastography can eliminate lesion biopsies
By Ellen B. Mendelson, M.D., FACR, JIAN-FENG Chen, Ph.D., and Patricia Karstaedt, M.D.
December 4, 2009
For many years, ultrasound has had a defined and very limited role in breast evaluations, being used for neither diagnosis nor detection. The reasons were bundled together in the phrase “operator dependence.” Factors contributing to the operator dependence included small, 5-cm² field-of-view; acoustic speckle and a coarse, noisy image; poor, inconsistent scanning technique; inexperience with ultrasound depiction of breast anatomy and pathology; no standard for lesion analysis and reporting until publication of BI-RADS for ultrasound; and diagnostic use limited to cyst versus solid mass.
To read the full article "Diagnostic Imaging"
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"
European Hospital
Measuring tissue stiffness without compression
ShearWave elastography delivers reproducible results
November 18, 2009
French expert Dr Jacques Souquet PhD, President of SuperSonic Imagine, describes the value and potential of ShearWave elastography, the latest development in ultrasound that enables radiologists to acquire user independent information about tissue stiffness by measuring both, ultrasound and shear waves.
To read the full article "European Hospital"
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
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
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