For advanced performance, you can rely on day after day, look no further than Aplio™. The system delivers outstanding performance for superior clinical precision, diagnostic confidence and productivity.

Lighter and with a smaller footprint, Aplio is designed to increase mobility, to optimize viewing, and to provide you with an ergonomic workplace. Our comprehensive iStyle™+ productivity suite supplies you with a wealth of workflow enhancements and automation functions allowing you to focus on your patient and improving the efficiency and consistency of your exams.

Offering the widest range of powerful clinical tools for advanced visualization and quantification with raw data functionality, Aplio helps you to improve diagnostic confidence and throughput everyday and on every patient. Comprehensive on-board facilities allow you to review, manage and report your studies conveniently on the system or in a network environment.

At Canon, we believe that only the best image quality allows a diagnosis to happen quickly and with confidence. Each of our unique imaging technologies provides you with better image quality by reducing noise, strengthening signal and improving ­visualization. Aplio’s revolutionary High Density Beamformer uses the most advanced digital signal processing to control the ­ultrasonic beams more precisely and flexibly than any other system.

• Tissue Enhancement

Combined with Pulse Subtraction Tissue Harmonic Imaging technology, Aplio’s Tissue Enhancement function delivers ultrasonic images of stunning smoothness and clarity. While it suppresses noise effectively, Tissue Enhancement improves image uniformity and endocardial border delineation dramatically, especially in difficult-to-image patient.

• Transesophageal Imaging

Canon’s TEE transducers for adult and pediatric use are designed to provide outstanding robustness and reliability. Their flexible, yet stable shafts are easy to insert, and thanks to their high-performance ceramics, the probes deliver exceptional ­images in all modes including spectral and color Doppler as well as pulsed wave TDI. Depending on your preference, Aplio can be equipped with a motorized or manual transducer.

• Doppler Technology

Aplio’s wideband transducer and signal processing technology delivers outstanding sensitivity, penetration and spatial resolution for all Doppler modes, allowing you to depict small jets and complex flow patterns with ease. The system’s robust auto-trace function assists you to produce quantitative measurement results reliably and quickly.

• Tissue Doppler Imaging (TDI)

Tissue Doppler is a standard tool to assess the diastolic function of both the left and the right heart. Aplio provides you with high frame rate Tissue Doppler images and high quality Pulsed-Wave-TDI traces for a precise timing of cardiac events in both visual and quantitative formats.

Our unique iStyle+ productivity suite provides you with a full host of technologies that offer ergonomic relief by reducing keystrokes, improving workflow and raising the consistency of exams. A smaller, lighter form gives you greater maneuverability while the fully configurable console and intelligent workflow support functions enable faster exams and greater productivity.

From imaging to quantification, from reporting to archiving, Canon ­provides a full spectrum solution that helps you manage routine and ­advanced clinical studies more efficiently.

Thanks to the system’s embedded raw data functionality, you can review, analyze, report and archive your clinical data anytime with no loss of functionality. Aplio is designed to embrace open network standards to ­facilitate easy integration in the widest variety of network environments.

Additionally, to ensure the system’s continuous high performance, we ­offer a range of support services our customers have consistently rated best in the industry.

• Ergonomic User Interface

Aplio’s compact design with adjustable console and fully articulating monitor arm enables you to create an ergonomic work environment in virtually any clinical setting. The system’s premium quality LCD screen with the four-axis arm can move and swivel into perfect position for better viewing and to protect you from neck, shoulder and eye strain.

• Fully Programmable Console

You can customize Aplio’s console to suit your clinical needs and personal preferences simply by reassigning functions to the keys of your choice. This results in better reach, fewer keystrokes and a shorter learning curve. The mode-sensitive touch screen which is now also programmable, enables direct access to complex measurements, labels and advanced functions.

• Quick-Start Clinical Settings

Changing presets during an exam can disrupt your workflow; because system settings need to be optimized from scratch. The fully programmable Quick Start menu allows you to ­adjust only the relevant parameter set at a single touch of a button. All other settings remain untouched. This way you can easily adjust the system to any specific clinical target while ensuring a smooth, uninterrupted workflow.

• Image Optimization

QuickScan allows you to achieve greater consistency in your exams by ensuring that superb image quality is the benchmark at all times. With a simple push of a button, you can automatically optimize image quality in 2D and spectral Doppler modes with acoustic precision while suppressing unnecessary noise and clutter in echo-weak regions.

• Managing Your Study Data

Aplio’s fully integrated patient and image management system allows you to review and manage your studies conveniently on­-board before sending them to PACS for reporting or archiving, including image and raw data as well as structured reports. And if a study is not performed in the exact order, Aplio’s shuffle feature allows you to place the images into the correct order before sending them to PACS for reading.

• Exporting Your Clinical Data

Aplio ships standard with a DVD writer and USB connection for study documentation and data export. The unit can be equipped with integrated medical printers or a DVD recorder for on-board study documentation. A digital video interface is available to connect your Aplio to external devices such as additional monitors.

• Reporting Options

Aplio provides comprehensive on-board facilities allowing you to semi-automatically generate reports including measurements, charts, clinical images, as well as text. Reports are customizable to meet your department’s standards and ­formats. If you prefer to do your reporting offline, we offer
a wide range of workstation and connectivity solutions.

Our external workstation solution gives you full access to your clinical data and diagnostic tool set wherever and whenever needed. With embedded raw data functionality and a host of clinical tools, you can review, analyze, report and archive your data quickly and easily.

Powered by the industry’s most advanced Realtime Application Platform, Aplio provides you with a complete range of exclusive, clinically proven technologies to increase your diagnostic confidence. By giving you valuable additional information in easy to understand visual, parametric and quantitative formats, these ­advanced technologies can help you avoid supplementary exams to get your diagnostic answer. Thus, you save expenses and enhance your productivity.

• Stress Echo

Aplio offers a comprehensive stress echo package for fast and accurate wall motion assessment. The package supports both standard and user-definable protocols for physical and pharmacological stress. Convenient suspend and shuffle functions allow you to skip views, change their order or even to insert additional investigations in between views. Regional wall motion scoring can be done on the system of offline to complete the exam.

• Flex-M

Due to a patient’s condition, it can be difficult or impossible at times to derive a diagnostic M-mode image at the correct angle. In these cases, Aplio’s Flex-M function allows you to ­acquire an anatomically correct M-mode from live or stored 2D images with the same quality and functionality as you are used to the conventional M-mode, including zoom function and quantitative measurements.

• Auto IMT

The intima-media thickness (IMT) of the carotid artery is an important parameter for assessing a patient’s risk of developing cardiovascular disease. Aplio provides you with an easy to use tool to determine the thickness of the intima-media layers of the near and far arterial walls automatically at an optimal angle of incidence and in two complementary planes.

• Wall Motion Tracking

Aplio’s Wall Motion Tracking package provides stunning ­visualization and quantitative analysis with unrivaled functionality, accuracy and resolution. Based on raw data the speckle tracking software reliably calculates parameters such as strain, strain rate or displacement, right at the patient’s bedside, in your lab or on the UltraExtend FX workstation.

• Accurate Quantification In Just 3 Clicks

Aplio’s WMT package is powerful, yet easy to use. After setting three reference points – two at the base, one at the apex – the software automatically traces the myocardial borders over the entire cardiac cycle of choice delivering a whole range of regional and global parameters including LV volume and ejection fraction in an instant. WMT is also an ideal tool for the characterization of dyssynchrony in patients with LBBB as well as for optimizing the outcome of CRT.

• Regional Myocardial Function

Canon’s Wall Motion Tracking package is applicable to both apical and longitudinal views, allowing you to analyze myocardial wall motion in each segment of the LV in both ­longitudinal and transmural directions. Furthermore, its ­sophisticated algorithm enables you to assess regional strain values individually from the sub-epicardial, mid- and sub-­endocardial layers, giving you more precise information on myocardial viability.

Speckles, the tiny white spots appearing in ultrasonic images, are interference patterns caused by randomly distributed scatterers. Because speckles follow tissue movement, their motion can be tracked over time by means of pattern recognition. Artida’s unique 3D speckle tracking technology is the first to follow tissue movement in 3D space to quantitatively assess all components of myocardial wall motion.