DORSET BREAST SCREENING UNIT IMPROVES ITS SERVICE WITH TOSHIBA ULTRASOUND

The Dorset Breast Screening Unit recently purchased two Canon Aplio 500 ultrasound systems. The Unit selected the scanners for their superior image quality and also for the potential they offer to expand their services to include shearwave elastography and microbubble studies of the axilla. One of the new machines was a replacement, and the additional system was purchased as part of a service development.

Stella Campbell and Lisa Bisset, Consultant Radiographers both endorse the new equipment, saying, “We are delighted with the two Canon systems which have increased throughput and productivity in our clinics. The scanners, which are specifically used for breast work, are efficient and easy-to-use.”

The Aplio 500 offers advanced performance that can be relied on day-after-day. Cost-effective and versatile, it provides superior imaging with outstanding depth and clarity.

Canon’s shear wave technology is a highly accurate and reproducible tool that provides integrated measurement and reporting for seamless integration into clinical workflow. It provides a quantitative measure and dynamic visual display of tissue stiffness in a variety of clinical settings, with raw data functionality to assist in localising and assessing palpable masses with high accuracy, sensitivity and reproducibility in a wide range of clinical settings.   Different degrees of tissue elasticity can be quantified or colour-coded in parametric images, making suspicious tissue changes quantifiable and visible in the ultrasonic image.

In addition, the Aplio 500 supplied to Dorset Breast Screening came with Contrast-Enhanced Ultrasound (CEUS). Canon’s comprehensive contrast imaging package allows the user to assess perfusion dynamics in a wide range of clinical settings. Depending on the system configuration, up to 24 transducers support contrast-enhanced studies, including an ample variety of specialised probes such as high frequency, intra-operative, intra-cavity and 3D/4D transducers.

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Shown here (left to right, standing), Suzanne Holloway, Breast Imaging Manager; Gilly Adams, Dorset Breast Screening Unit Assistant; Lisa Bisset,  Consultant Radiographer, and Melanie Huish, Deputy Superintendent Radiographer

Seated on the left is Stella Campbell, Consultant Radiographer, and on the right, Dr. Nicola Robson, Consultant Radiologist

Canon Medial Systems has a carbon-zero project in place.  We have calculated the carbon footprint for each of our products to include manufacturing, shipping, delivery and average hospital energy used for the standard lifetime of the equipment as follows: Ultrasound equates to 1 stove and 3,415 litres of water