Covering the entire continuum of care from screening to diagnosis to therapy and follow-up, the new ACUSON S2000 ultrasound system will feature applications across general imaging, including obstetrics and gynecology (OB/GYN), as well as vascular and cardiac imaging.

The ACUSON S2000 is Siemens’ new platform for some of the most innovative ultrasound applications, including ARFI, which uses acoustic energy to displace tissue for a qualitative and quantitative assessment of deep tissue stiffness. Current research suggests that this type of assessment may be useful for differentiation in abnormalities such as liver tumors or the quantification of fibrosis progression.

The ACUSON S2000 system is also capable of integrating Siemens’ groundbreaking Silicon Ultrasound technology, which introduces the first entirely new class of ultrasound transducers in 40 years. Silicon Ultrasound technology uses the precise semiconductor processing techniques of the computer chip industry to create a family of probes that will enable volumetric 4D imaging in a wide range of applications. With Silicon Ultrasound, clinicians will get true isotropic 3D images enabling them to see the same fine level of detail in each direction that they choose to examine the imaging data. At RSNA, Siemens will present the power of this approach in breast imaging and other high-resolution applications