Ultrasound System’s Dynamic Architecture Allows for Continual Platform Adaptations

A new system offer excellent ultrasound imaging based on a dynamic and open architecture that allows continual platform evolvement to meet the changing needs of clinicians.

Zonare Medical Systems (Mountain View, CA, USA), a developer of next-generation ultrasound technology, announced the introduction of its new ZS3 premium ultrasound system. The ZS3 expands the company’s family of Zone Sonography technology (ZST) systems. The platform provides expanded penetration for greater diagnostic capabilities.


“The ZS3 offers superb high frequency imaging in the abdomen with enormous penetration,” said Jörg Bönhof, MD, Stiftung Deutsch Klinik für Diagnostik (Wiesbaden, Germany). “This makes structures visible which I have never seen before. For example, I can now visualize normal amounts of fluid around organs such as the liver, spleen, and bowel even with the most challenging of patients.”

The ZS3 uses Zonare’s Living Technology, which delivers ultrasound-imaging excellence based on a dynamic and open architecture that allows continual platform evolvement to meet the changing needs of clinicians. Zone Sonography technology is a novel approach to echo data acquisition and image formation. Employing a small number of large “zones,” ZST acquires ultrasound data up to 10 times faster than standard systems and implements data acquisition and management in software instead of hardware.

“We have previously set expectations high with ZST,” said Glen McLaughlin, founder and CTO for Zonare. “However, we believe the performance of the ZS3 will be even higher. This addition to our growing suite of ultrasound systems will provide a significant additional option for fulfilling imaging needs.”

The initial system will have a wide range of transducer options with more under development as the technology continues to evolve. Most transducers also are compatible with the z.one ultra and z.one ultra sp systems as part of the Zonare range of ZST products. “Our goal is to expand our family of robust ultrasound choices while providing an unsurpassed and highly reliable platform,” said Timothy Marcotte, president and CEO of Zonare. “The ZS3 is one of the only premium ultrasound systems on the market today which offers such an extended warranty. We believe our ZST architecture can provide significant value while enabling excellence in performance and generating a pathway to a new diagnostic standard.”

Zonare Medical Systems’ innovative, software-based, next-generation technology provides the platform for the company’s Living Technology, which is designed to meet its customers’ evolving imaging needs.

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