Intelligent technology

for your daily practice

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State-of-the-art imaging technology

from the ground up

Over the past few years diagnostic ultrasound has undergone major changes. With the

introduction of increasingly complex digital components, image quality and versatility

of new state-of-the-art ultrasound systems have improved significantly. Toshiba has

developed innovative technologies to enhance clinical accuracy, ergonomic efficiency

and advanced imaging to improve clinical productivity in daily practice.

Clinical performance
Uncompromised image quality
remains the fundamental prerequisite
for clinical performance because it
enables fast and accurate diagnosis.
The core of clinical accuracy and
versatility is a software-driven
system design, with intelligent
components for real-time parallel
data processing, which provides
sufficient horsepower to drive today’s
clinical applications at the highest
level of performance with enough
capacity for the implementation of
future developments.
Toshiba’s Intelligent Component
Architecture is a groundbreaking
hardware design concept. Much like
synapses are created on demand
in the human brain, Toshiba’s
system components can operate
autonomously and are able to
communicate directly with each
other. As a result, complex data
operations can be performed in
real time, resulting in unsurpassed
image quality, sensitivity and artifact
suppression. At the same time,
the main processor is available
for advanced back-end functions
without the need for an integrated
workstation.
Toshiba’s state-of-the-art XBT
transducer technology provides
extremely high bandwidth and
sensitivity, resulting in ultrasound
images that feature both outstanding
spatial resolution and penetration.
The new transducer series boosts
the performance of all modes and
offers advanced imaging functions.
The latest technologies developed
for real-time volume imaging are
now being applied to conventional
transducers which results in finer
and more uniform ultrasound beams
in all three dimensions to deliver
the most superb image quality and
clinical detail throughout the entire
image.
Ergonomics and
productivity
With the continual rise of repetitive
stress injuries, ergonomics and
productivity are extremely important
in today’s clinical practice. Aplio XG
features powerful assisting functions
as well as fully programmable
operation panels to streamline

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The iASSIST™ palm unit with Bluetooth™ wireless technology optimizes Ureterocele with duplicated kidney using ApliPure+ showing superior
workflow with remote control of the user interface. contrast resolution.

workflow and improve productivity
Fully programmable consoles
and touch command screens ensure
simplicity of operation and allow
selection and adjustments of basic
and advanced operation modes
with ease.
Toshiba’s iAssist™ palm unit
with BluetoothTM wireless technology
is a remote tool for reducing physical
stress for sonographers. User
programmable workflow protocols
provide full system operation
solely through a remote control by
mirroring the functionality of the
main panel. By giving sonographers
the ability to move away from the
system, it is possible to perform
exams with ease that would
otherwise be physically difficult or
highly strenuous.
Aplio XG’s 19-inch medical
grade flat screen monitor displays
ultrasound images with outstanding
clarity, high image contrast and
minimal viewing-angle dependency.
The articulating arm and convenient
handle allows for quick adjustments
for sonographer comfort.
One-touch image optimization,
which is becoming a standard
feature of high-end equipment,
helps to achieve greater workflow
consistency in less time. With a
single push of the Quick Scan
button the user can automatically
optimize image quality in both
conventional 2D imaging and
spectral Doppler imaging.
APLIPURE+
Toshiba has many advanced imaging
functions that are unsurpassed in
the industry. ApliPure™+ is Toshiba’s
real-time compounding technology
that simultaneously performs spatial
and frequency compounding in
transmit and receive to enhance both
image clarity and detail definition.
This is achieved while preserving
clinically significant markers such as
shadows behind echo-dense objects
and acoustic enhancements behind
cystic structures, both of which

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Advanced Dynamic Flow used in combination with twin view to image Incredible detail resolution of a dilated pancreatic duct using Differential
the liver allowing visualization of 2D image and 2D image with color Tissue Harmonic Imaging and ApliPure+.
simultaneously.

are crucial in accurate diagnosis.
ApliPure+ is capable of working in
combination with all imaging modes,
without compromising the diagnostic
criteria and always maintaining
outstanding grayscale resolution.
Advanced Dynamic Flow
Toshiba ultrasound provides color
Doppler imaging at an unprecedented
level. Advanced Dynamic Flow ™
applies the same ultra-high
bandwidth normally used only in B-
mode to Doppler signal processing.
As a result, Advanced Dynamic Flow
offers superior spatial resolution at
high frame rates to accurately display
flow with directional information even
in tiny vessels. By integrating itself
pixel by pixel into the 2D image,
rather than conventional color which
overlays the 2D image, blooming and
bleeding are eliminated and you are
able to see the true vessel lumen and
evaluate true hemodynamic flow.
Differential Tissue
Harmonic Imaging
Differential Tissue Harmonic
Imaging (D-THI) is an advanced
Tissue Harmonic Imaging method
utilizing Toshiba’s unique XBT
transducer technology in conjunction
with our Intelligent Component
Architecture. D-THI uses greatly
enhanced effective bandwidth to
simultaneously provide unsurpassed
spatial resolution, contrast resolution
and increased penetration. D-THI
provides the benefit of penetration
for difficult to image patients without
sacrificing resolution to give superior
border and tissue definition.
Volume Imaging
Volume imaging applications are
dramatically changing the way
ultrasound is performed today
and holds great potential for
future advances for ultrasound
imaging. The greatest potential
lies in radiology, where spatial
and contrast resolution play a
major role for diagnostic image

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4D cavity image demonstrating anatomical detail of the portal vein in
the liver.
quality. Most advanced imaging
techniques originally developed for
conventional imaging are now being
offered with volume imaging. High-
resolution renderings and arbitrary
volume cuts in real time or offline
are now available for clinical use
allowing virtual reconstruction and
presentation formats similar to CT
and MRI.
Toshiba also offers Spatio-
Temporal Imaging Correlation
(STIC) and Cavity Imaging. STIC
reconstructs and displays black-
and-white volume images for
different cardiac phases based on
the heart rate obtained by analyzing
the motion of groups of tomographic
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Multiview of a foot lesion providing added ability to interrogate the lesion.
images. Cavity Imaging displays
fluid filled structures such as blood
vessels, mammary ducts, and cysts
(which are likely to be hidden in the
tissues in 4D mode) by inverting the
black-and-white of the image.
Toshiba’s complete volume
imaging package provides clinicians
with the tools they need to
streamline workflow. The added
benefits it provides, combined with
the demand for uncompromised
image quality and advanced
technologies, gives volume imaging
the potential to take ultrasound to
the next level.
Data management and
connectivity
Today, on-board patient information
management systems enable fast and
efficient storage of patient data, still
images, clips and structured reports
on the system’s hard disk or externally
connected devices. Furthermore,
DICOM connectivity allows seamless
communication in a variety of HIS/RIS
and PACS environments. For local
study documentation, most systems
feature optical disc drives and can be
connected to documentation devices
ranging from medical printers to high-
definition video streaming recorders.
Integrated DVI-D interfaces allow for
fully digital connection to external
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Panoramic view used in combination with a high frequency transducer to
evaluate a tethered cord.
devices, such as additional monitors.
To facilitate the use of clinical
data such as teaching files and
use in presentations, the integrated
Patient Browser software allows
convenient export of still images
and clips to PC-compatible formats
such as JPEG, TIFF, BMP and AVI.
To comply with HIPAA regulations,
patient-sensitive information can
automatically be removed from
still images and clips with the de-
identify option.
Toshiba ultrasound is dedicated
to developing medical equipment
that meets and exceeds industry
standards of interoperability and is
Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise
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Left ventricular opacification using pulse subtraction technology
demonstrating superb image quality.
(IHE) and Health Insurance ApliPure+, Advanced Dynamic Flow
Portability and Accountability Act and Differential Tissue Harmonic
(HIPAA) compliant. Imaging as well as volume imaging
increase productivity, workflow and
conclusion diagnostic confidence. Combining
Toshiba’s Aplio XG provides state- these technologies with easy-to-use
of-the-art imaging technology connectivity features makes the
from the ground up to meet the Aplio XG the ideal diagnostic imaging
increasing demands of daily solution for a wide variety of clinical
clinical use. Intelligent Component requirements.
Architecture provides unsurpassed
clinical performance while the
ergonomically designed system
gives maximum operator comfort
to reduce the alarming increase
in repetitive stress injuries related
to scanning. Advanced Toshiba
exclusive technologies such as
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Pulse subtraction technology combined with sensitive color flow Doppler Panoramic view of the liver with ascites demonstrating great detail
displaying mitral regurgitation. resolution.

Fluid collection within the liver, demonstrating outstanding spatial TwinView of the popliteal vein utilizing Advanced Dynamic Flow.
resolution.

TwinView of the liver demonstrating Neurofibromatosis. Advanced Dynamic Flow demonstrating vasculature of a thyroid mass.

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