RSNA 2024: Siemens Healthineers Introduces Acuson Sequoia 3.5 Ultrasound Update

Siemens Healthineers has launched Acuson Sequoia 3.5, a major software and hardware update to the Acuson Sequoia ultrasound system that leverages artificial intelligence (AI)-powered features for improved workflow and efficiency to enhance clinical performance. Acuson Sequoia 3.5 features AI Abdomen with improved ergonomics and new solutions for breast and musculoskeletal (MSK) imaging.

Acuson Sequoia 3.5 includes exclusive technologies for breast imaging enabled by proprietary algorithms and the company’s highest-frequency linear transducer, the HLX transducer. The HLX transducer is lightweight and designed with an ergonomic grip and narrow shape, allowing for constant light pressure and tight access, reducing strain and pressure during scans.

The HLX transducer also addresses the MSK clinician’s need to visualize large, in-motion tissues and small, superficial structures for conditions such as tendon tears and inflammatory arthritis. 

AI Abdomen helps standardize exams across users with a real-time organ-identification feature and freeze-measurement of organs. The algorithm provides consistent measurements across users, enhancing diagnostic accuracy and reducing variability associated with manual measurements.  

“With our continued focus on practical AI, we are committed to developing solutions that improve the ultrasound user’s clinical experience and improve workflow to standardize diagnostic results for patients,” said Ajay Gannerkote, head of Ultrasound, Siemens Healthineers.

Additionally, Acuson Sequoia 3.5 includes liver quantification tools, Ultrasound Derived Fat Fraction (UDFF), and Auto Point Shear Wave Elastography (Auto pSWE). These tools, which are proprietary to the Sequoia ultrasound system, provide quantification of liver tissue stiffness and hepatic steatosis in a single acquisition.

Acuson Sequoia 3.5 is cleared by the Food and Drug Administration, CE marked in the European Union, and is available globally.

Siemens Healthineers’ technologies can be seen at RSNA 2024 in Chicago at Booth #2529.