Siemens ACUSON Sequoia Ultrasound System (Crown Edition)

The ACUSON Sequoia Crown Edition is a fully featured Ultra-Premium ultrasound system that delivers clinical excellence across ultrasound specialties. It includes innovative imaging, exclusive technologies and specialty transducers designed to improve diagnostic accuracy in nearly every clinical use case. It provides advanced technologies and applications that intelligently respond to patient- and user-specific needs.

Addressing variability

The system was designed to reduce the unwarranted variability that has limited ultrasound’s potential, at three levels:

• Patient Variability: A patient population that is increasingly harder to scan.
• System Variability: Differences in technology can inhibit the ability to generate accurate and reproducible measurements.
• User Variability: Significant intra- and inter-observer variability can pose a challenge to the standardization of care.

Intelligent Imaging powered by BioAcoustic technology

The ACUSON Sequoia is powered by BioAcoustic imaging technology, maximizing the sensitivity and depth of scans, while reducing variability across patients, systems and users. The system is built on three pillars:

• Intelligent Imaging: Improved diagnostic confidence with deeper and clearer images using BioAcoustic imaging.
• Expanded Insights: Personalized advanced applications that expand clinical information and improve patient outcomes.
• User-Driven Design: User-designed experiences that improve workflow usability.

The next generation hardware offers the ability to store up to 6x more energy and 2x deeper penetration. InTune transducer technology, with the InTune Pulser and InFocus Imaging Technology, transmits and receives signals with 10x higher acoustic fidelity and 3x more sensitivity.

Intelligent Imaging

The system’s powerful architecture eliminates the need for conventional focal zones, creating a fully focused image with faster frame rates.

• InFocus: Uses synthesized, retrospectively focused transmit beams throughout the field of view that focus at all depths. Amplitude corrections can be made across transmit events to significantly sharpen the image and improve spatial resolution.
• Next generation transducers: Designed for optimal acoustics in each clinical use case, with optimized acoustic matching between transducer and patient. Compact-pinless connectors improve the signal-to-noise ratio with one-handed plug and play connection.
• DAX – Deep Abdominal Transducer: With up to 73% color Doppler improvement.
• 9C2: Improves intercostal scanning in kids with a 15% smaller lens, equipped with CEUS, Auto pSWE and UDFF.
• 15L4: Exceptional near field resolution with 25% deeper penetration.

Additional imaging technologies: InFocus Imaging, AutoCalcs (measurements of complex lesions with machine learning), AutoFlash Color Suppression Technology, Slow Flow Color Doppler, Auto Doppler and Auto Spectral, Speed of Sound Adjustment, Single Crystal Technology (11M3 micro-convex transducer), Modality Compare, Volume Imaging (3D/4D), as well as Cardiac Imaging with the 8V3 pediatric cardiac transducer.

Expanded Insights

The ACUSON Sequoia was built from the ground up with dedicated hardware for exceptional performance in applications such as contrast enhanced ultrasound (CEUS) and elastography, setting a new benchmark in the quantification of liver fat with Ultrasound Derived Fat Fraction (UDFF).

• Next Generation 2D-SWE: Greater sensitivity in the detection and visualization of malignant breast lesions with Next-Gen Breast Elastography, to characterize lesions as benign or malignant.
• Auto pSWE: Rapidly reduce liver elastography acquisition time up to 75%, acquiring up to 15 valid pSWE measurements in less than 5 seconds.
• UDFF (Ultrasound Derived Fat Fraction): Noninvasive assessment of hepatic steatosis, classifying with a simple and clear cutoff value of > 5%.
• CEUS Imaging: In contrast imaging, the system has twice the sensitivity of previous systems for improved diagnostic confidence.
• Velocity Vector Imaging (syngo VVI): Assess myocardial motion and mechanics with global longitudinal strain (GLS), global circumferential strain (GCS) and global radial strain (GRS), using semi-automated syngo VVI.
• Fusion Imaging: Combine imaging modalities, such as CT and ultrasound fusion, for improved diagnostic confidence.

User-Driven Design

Siemens Healthineers hosted 170 workshops with 365 ultrasound users worldwide to create a system designed by users, for users. The ACUSON Sequoia was evaluated by an independent user experience design company, earning a system usability score (SUS) of 86% and a user preference score of 82%, higher than the conventional ultrasound systems participating in the study.

• 1-touch registration: Machine learning technology automatically selects the correct transducer and exam type for a patient scan.
• Gesture detecting transducers: Tap anywhere on the transducer to quickly activate and start scanning through its unique sensor technology.
• UltraArt real-time quad-display: Exclusive UltraArt universal image technology allows selecting the image preference from a real-time touch screen display.
• Virtual Workstation: Establish a connection to a remote computer or server to access remote applications directly from the ultrasound system.

Ergonomics and design

• 24″ Barco monitor: Dual-layer LCD technology with wide viewing angle.
• Smaller intuitive touch display: A 13.3″ touch access with quick keys selected by the user, improving ergonomics and workflow.
• Integrated gel warmer: An integrated gel warmer which can be placed on either side of the system.
• Larger storage areas: 1 integrated storage bin and storage shelf option.
• Central locking and steer pedals: A central locking mechanism eliminates the need to lock each wheel individually, enhancing maneuverability.
• Floating control panel: The control panel can swivel 180 degrees for a seamless workflow to fit every room.

Connectivity and support solutions

• Remote connectivity solution for Ultrasound: A secure, easy-to-use, cloud-based remote service solution, powered by AWS (Amazon Web Services), that keeps your software up to date with remote technical and application support.
• teamplay Fleet: A digital health platform solution to streamline fleet management and optimize asset performance, 24/7.
• PEPconnect: Digital education with learning activities and credit earning at any time and on any device.
• Evolve: An anti-obsolescence program (Designed for Growth) that keeps systems updated with the latest software upgrades and feature enhancements. It is an add-on option to qualified Service contracts.

Keeping you protected from cyber threat

The Windows 10 operating system and a state-of-the-art cybersecurity program protect the privacy of your data and strengthen your systems’ resiliency from external cyberattacks.

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