Bill Kenny, Aplio™ Artida™ 3D Echocardiography System

Q: What has been the markets reaction around the world to Artida™?

-Extremely Positive, the thought leaders are excited.

-Trying to make 3D methods as easy as 2D methods.

-Input control panel and touch screen are programmable.

-4D transducer one of the lightest and compact in the market.

Q:What are new imaging technology on the Artida?

-Smart Focus

-Tissue Enchainment

-Transducers, range in frequency for adult echo 1.0-5.0MHz

Q:Tell us about the 3D wall tracking.

-Wall motion tracking based on 3D speckle tracking.

-Cubic analysis samples, utilizes 3D data sets.

Q: What other calculations come from the 3D data?

-Radial, longitudinal, and circumferential strain, torsion & twist

-Volumes, ejection fractions,segmented and global function from a 3D data set collected over a single cardiac cycle.