Fusion Bx 2.0 is designed to display the 2D live video received from commercially available ultrasound machines and use this 2D video to reconstruct a 3D ultrasound image volume. The system is designed to work with clinicians’ existing ultrasound machines, transrectal ultrasound (TRUS) probes, commercially available needles, needle guides/templates and needle gun combination. Additional software features include patient data management, multi-planar reconstruction, segmentation, image measurements and 3D image registration. Fusion Bx 2.0 offers the physician additional 3D information for assessing prostate abnormalities, planning and implementing biopsy procedures. The additional image processing features are generated with minimal changes to previous TRUS probe-based procedures, and the physician always has access to the live 2D ultrasound image during prostate assessment or biopsy procedure.
A freestanding, image processing device that is a component of a picture archiving and communication system (PACS) for radiology designed to be networked with a wide variety of diagnostic imaging systems [e.g., x-ray, nuclear medicine, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) or ultrasound (US), as well as a laboratory or hospital information system (HIS)]. It does not contain controls for the direct operation of a diagnostic imaging system and is designed to receive, archive, and transmit data both on-line and off-line. It is configured to provide limited or extensive capabilities to further process, manipulate and/or view patient images and information collected from diagnostic imaging systems.