'The Acuson SC2000 can acquire at such a rate that we can cover the whole heart, a 90-degree by 90-degree imaging angle, and an acceptable frame rate at 20 or greater. 'Currently the products on the market use a 'stitched' image because they are limited by how much information and the rate at which they can acquire it they stitch shorter images together to cover the entire cardiac structure,' she said. Louise Kruz, senior marketing manager for echocardiography solutions at Siemens, business unit ultrasound, told Cardiovascular Devices & Drugs that Siemens had to overcome some key technical challenges to make the Acuson SC2000 stand out from the competition. Siemens Healthcare< (Mountain View, California) unveiled its Acuson SC2000 volume imaging ultrasound system, which it says is the first system to acquire non-stitched, real-time full-volume 3-D images of the heart in one single heart cycle, during the 19th annual meeting of the American Society of Echocardiography (ASE Raleigh, North Carolina) in Toronto.Ĭalling it 'Echo in a Heartbeat,' Siemens said the new technology marks 'the greatest paradigm shift in ultrasound since the introduction of 2D imaging in the late 1970s.' Instantaneous, non-stitched full-volume imaging comes 55 years after echocardiography pioneers Inge Edler and Hellmuth Hertz acquired the world's first cardiac ultrasound recording using Siemens technology in 1953, the company said.

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