Siemens Acuson 3000

HIRF is equipped with a high-performance Siemens/Acuson S3000 ultrasound scanner.

 The ultrasound can be used for a wide variety of studies including long structures such as tendons, nerves and blood vessels, the assessment of musculoskeletal structures, the excursion of a tendon or the contraction of a muscle, blood flow velocity and direction, small part structures such as thyroid, breast and testes as well as organ perfusion.

This system has advanced capabilities including:

• B-mode, colour and pulsed wave Doppler, power Doppler, harmonic imaging
• Spatial compounding in B mode, colour and power Doppler
• Capability of multimodal review – for example to compare the ultrasound image to that of MRI/CT/PET on the same screen.
• Panoramic imaging of 240cm in length
• Offline transfer and data processing
• Elastography capabilities to assess tissue stiffness. This system is capable of real time voxel placement and shear wave velocity estimation, as well as the generation of corresponding colour coded tissue stiffness map.