The Aspire combines detector engineering with patient focused ergonomics to provide clinicians with faster, more confident diagnoses and patients with improved comfort. The product was first commercialized in Asia and Europe.
“Aspire Cristalle nicely represents our latest culmination of imaging innovation,” said Rob Fabrizio, director of marketing and product development, Digital X-ray and Women’s Health, for FujiFilm Medical Systems U.S.A.“The Aspire Cristalle will deliver brilliant images with gentle dose, while redefining the patient experience through a more comfortable exam.”
The Aspire Cristalle features new advancements, including:
- A comfort paddle, designed to make the most uncomfortable part of mammograms more comfortable. The paddle’s soft edges, flexible composition and four-way pivot contours to the individual shape of the breast to more comfortably apply compression for optimal tissue separation, the company claims. The system also features new patient grip handles and padding for added stability and comfort, as well as soft backlighting and graphic mural decals to help ease patient anxiety and improved access for wheelchair exams.
- Hexagonal Close Pattern (HCP), a detector pixel design, engineered to deliver higher acquisition efficiency, for finer detail, higher DQE, higher MTF and lower dose than conventional square pixel arrays. It also is engineered to produce brilliant images at low dose, the company notes.
- Enhanced image quality through Fujifilm’s image processing, iAEC automated exposure controls and ISC tuned contrast, which adapt to the specific characteristics for every breast type and image implants with ease.
Based in Stamford, Conn., FujiFilm Medical Systems U.S.A. provides diagnostic imaging products and medical informatics solutions ranging from digital X-ray systems and the Synapse brand of picture archiving and communication system, radiology information system, and cardiovascular products, to advanced women’s health imaging systems. The Endoscopy Division of FujiFilm Medical Systems supplies endoscopes to the medical market.
FujiFilm's parent company, FujiFilm Holdings Corporation of Tokyo, Japan, develops and markets products for a broad spectrum of industries including: healthcare, with medical systems, pharmaceuticals and cosmetics; graphic systems; highly functional materials, such as flat panel display materials; optical devices, such as broadcast and cinema lenses; digital imaging; and document products. In the year ended March 31, 2014, the company reported global revenues of $23.7 billion, at an exchange rate of 103 yen to the dollar.