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 Integrating
premium ultrasound imaging with your own application
—wherever you need it!
Fast Integration
Terason’s versatile,
miniaturized system-on-chip architecture, coupled with a
Windows®-based software application, provides a premium
and cost-effective ultrasound solution that can be
embedded seamlessly into your product, anywhere you need
it.
Our unique
custom-designed chip consumes significantly less power
and has a much smaller footprint than a conventional
ultrasound system, resulting in simple integration into
your Windows compatible product. Terason’s flexible PC
architecture simplifies RF acquisition and data storage,
enabling exportation of proprietary raw data files to
MAT LAB — a signal processing package — that takes raw
data from our system and processes it for research and
development, and then displays it in a custom image
format. MAT LAB also provides users the ability to
utilize captured data while offline.
 Integrate
with flexibility
The self-contained,
system-on-the chip engine is not only small enough to
fit in your hand but also functions by itself without
additional hardware. As a result, the engine can be
placed anywhere within your product or application —
whether it is next to the patient bed or inside a
surgical biopsy system — wherever real-time ultrasound
imaging is required. The engine and probes can be
separated from the main computer, and the engine can
also accommodate multiple probe connections to allow
clinicians to quickly change probes with the press of a
button.
 Easy
to customize
User interface
customization is fast and easy. Our Software Development
Kit (SDK) provides the tools that an OEM developer or
researcher can use to build a unique user interface. The
live streamed imaging utilizes a shared-memory,
client-server architecture that provides high bandwidth
with low overhead. Terason successfully integrated the
ultrasound engine into a fully-functional off the shelf
laptop PC used in multiple clinical applications.
Unlimited integration possibilities
Imaging guidance for surgical and interventional
procedures
 Simple
to use, small footprint, real-time ultrasound imaging
guidance for interventionalists or surgeons in the exam
room is efficient and cost-effective. In the angiography
suite, integrated ultrasound is used for any procedure
requiring ultrasound visualization and guidance. The
probes and a small electronic box (engine) are hung from
the side of the exam room table, and a tableside
joystick is used to operate the ultrasound application,
negating the need for a conventional ultrasound system
and freeing up valuable real estate in the exam room.
The floor is clear of cables because the ultrasound
engine is connected to a computer, which is running the
ultrasound application, located in the control room.
Ultrasound images are displayed overhead in the exam
room as well as in the control room on multi-use
monitors. For documentation and billing purposes, images
are sent to the review station on the PACS with the push
of a button.
Integrating
ultrasound to enhance treatment effectiveness
 Real-time
ultrasound guidance can enhance radiation treatment to
counteract the dynamic nature of the human body which
may cause the tumor to shift slightly from the original
pre-planned target. It also plays a key role in
minimally invasive surgery. Terason’s small-footprint
ultrasound solution is utilized in ablation and
cryotherapy systems to provide real-time guidance to
more accurately monitor treatment. Now, all this can be
accomplished with one self-contained system.
Integrating
ultrasound with other imaging modalities
Real-time ultrasound
images fused with pre-acquired images from other
modalities such as CT, MRI, X-Ray, PET and Nuclear
Medicine, provide highly accurate, up-to-date
information during interventional
 and
surgical procedures. Terason ultrasound imaging is used
in this manner to provide real time guidance during
neurosurgery. Because the brain shifts slightly in
position during surgery, there is a need for the
real-time feedback that intra-operative ultrasound
imaging provides. In addition, Doppler capabilities
provide the surgeon with blood flow information for
surgical planning and monitoring. The result is improved
patient care. Terason’s small-footprint, Windows-based
solution is again ideal for this application. In this
example, the small imaging engine is attached to the OR
table and the ultrasound imaging control buttons are on
the navigation system’s touch screen.
Leading the way in integrated ultrasound solutions
With over 100 existing
and pending patents, Terason’s proprietary
system-on-a-chip is developed to provide the smallest
footprint with the lowest power consumption, resulting
in a miniaturized premium ultrasound solution that is
self-contained. Terason is the first company to receive
patents on portable ultrasound, software-based scan
conversion, software-based Doppler processing, PC-based
ultrasound architecture, and integrated 2D-array for
real-time 3D/4D ultrasound. Terason is entrusted by
thousands of clinicians and partners throughout the
world in ultrasound screening, diagnosis and
interventional guidance since its first product release
in 2001.
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