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Prostate Ultrasound 3D vs. 2D

Envisioneering Medical focuses resources and technology to develop equipment to aid physicians in detection, diagnosis and treatment. The TargetScan 3D imaging and targeted biopsy system offers the first real advance in prostate imaging and biopsy in over a decade. It eases discomfort of probing during examination, as once it is place, there is no need for repositioning. The system allows a physician to generate a true solid 3D image, manipulate it, and precisely plan and undertake a multi-sample biopsy of a targeted tissue mass in the prostate. Click to learn more about TargetScan 3D or ask your physician today.

Although conventional 2D ultrasound is a highly flexible imaging modality, allowing the user to manipulate the transducer and view the desired anatomical section, it also suffers from disadvantages that 3D US imaging attempts to address:

Conventional 2D ultrasound images represent thin planes of the patient. Since their location is controlled by manually manipulating the transducer's orientation, the user must mentally integrate many 2D images to form an impression of the 3D anatomy and pathology.

Planning or monitoring of therapeutic procedures requires placing the 2D ultrasound image plane at a particular desired location within an organ and being able to reproduce the same location at a later time. Since conventional 2D ultrasound is controlled manually, repetitively finding the same location is very difficult.

Manipulation of the 3D US image allows viewing of an arbitrarily orientated image plane within the patient, even planes not accessible by 2D US.

Some diagnostic procedures as well as therapy and surgery planning require accurate volume measurements. The use of 2D ultrasound for measurement of organ or lesion volume is variable and at times inaccurate.