Shear wave elastography

Simplify liver disease assessment

Available on the EPIQ and Affiniti platforms, shear wave elastography simplifies liver assessment, making obtaining liver stiffness measurements fast and easy. Philips ElastQ (2D-SWE) advances shear wave elastography, providing a technique that is not only non-invasive and easy to use, but also offers clinicians additional confidence in the reliability of measurements, even for the technically difficult patient (TDP), such as a patient with a high BMI.

Shearwave Technology

Liver assessment made easy

In this video, learn about Philips shear wave ultrasound elastography’s value in assessing liver status painlessly and non-invasively.

Features

Philips liver fat quantification ultrasound clinical image

May reduce need for liver biopsies

ElastQ is a non-invasive, reproducible and easily performed method of assessing liver tissue stiffness that may help reduce, or even avoid, the need for conventional liver biopsies. Research suggests that instead of a costly and painful biopsy procedure, an easy ultrasound exam could become routine for assessing liver disease status.¹

Quantitative assessment

With ElastQ shear wave elastography, clinicians can easily assess liver tissue stiffness using real-time feedback and make quantitative measurements with multiple sample points, even retrospectively on DICOM stored images.

Philips ElastQ confidence map clinical image

Confidence-enhancing maps

Unique confidence maps, used with stiffness maps, improve clinical confidence of shear wave measurements. Both maps can be displayed side-by-side, which reduces workflow steps and allows for simultaneous map correlation during acquisition and measurement phases.

Photo of clinician performing a liver ultrasound scan of a female patient.

Fast results

ElastQ is so fast that you can add it to your routine abdominal scans for critical data early in the diagnostic process, and without compromising your lab schedule. Simply perform a right intercostal scan of the liver, set the ROI between 1 and 2 cm below the liver capsule avoiding vessels, and at a total depth of <8 cm, and press “Update.” In less than a second, the measurement results are displayed on the image.