Echo Machine COMPARISONS

SETTINGS

PHILLIPS 5500

GE Vivid 7

ACUSON Sequoia512

FREQUENCY

Harnonics-range

 F1-send-1.3/receive-3.2-more P

F2-send-1.6/3.2-P/T

F3-send 1.3/2.6-T

F4-send 1.6/3.2-T.R

F5-send 1.6/3.2-R

Harmonics range is send 1.5/receive 3.0

Send 1.7/receive 3.5

Send 1.9/receive 3.8

Send 2.0/receive 4.0

Harmonics range is send   /receive 2.25

          /receive 2.75

         / receive 3.25

          /receive 3.75

          /receive 4.25  

IMAGE

DEPTH

24cm is the max. depth

30cm

30cm

Gray scale levels

14 steps-post proc.

A-N

18 levels-Dynamic range is 20 to 2

16 steps-post proc range is 0 to 7

Automatic tissue

Optimization available

No

Yes-called Tissue

Optimization-press down on 2D gain

Yes-called TEQ-press button under sliding gain levers

Lateral gain available

Yes

No

No

Edge enhancement available 

No

Yes-called contour or edge enhance

Yes-use edge toggle

Or dial to Valve preset

Probe

S3-Phased array

M3S/ M4S-matrix array

4VIC-s-vector wide view array

 Respiratory waveform available

 Yes, go under physio

Yes-go under physio

Yes-only with a nasal respirometer

Post-processing

Available for additional measurements

Yes—under loop and disk retrieve-can do 2D, Doppler, and colorize. Can not add color, m-mode or change sweep speed

Yes-go under review and you can do 2D, M-MODE, TVI ,  Doppler-can change sweep speed and color baseline,  can add B color maps---but can not add color

Yes-go under review and you can do 2D, Doppler. Can not add color, m-mode, colorize and can not change sweep speed

 Extra

features

 LIMA-on stress machine

3D-on TEE machine

 TVI

TSI

4D-on new machine

 VVI-on flat panel machine