Description

The Siui Apogee 1000 Lite is the perfect solution for the small animal practice, private clinic, mobile vet, or for moving between satellite branches. Slim and lightweight, it houses the very latest technology and is now also available to buy as the upgrade option of our NEW Ultrasound Starter Kit!

• 15″ LCD tilting monitor
• Detachable battery – up to 2 hours of mobile scanning time
• Splash proof

 The above scan was performed on a very small animal (guinea pig) – one of the greatest challenges for any ultrasound scanner. Of course, the linear probe – designed for superficial work – performs spectacularly, but even the microconvex performs very well despite the pregnancy being right into the near field (only 1cm in depth).

Large convex probe:

Linear probe:

This thyroid scan below may not look very interesting, but actually, it tells you a lot. Look how the colour coding is confined so precisely to the vessels. Siui have got their filters and 2D/colour coding sensitivity absolutely spot on with this model:

Remember that any given pixel can be coded in greyscale as tissue, or coded in colour if flow is detected. To make matters more complicated, tissue can also move (the pulsatile nature of arteries, or the contraction of the myocardium, for example), so the scanner has to also filter out high amplitude movements and be sure not to code these as blood flow. This is why so many systems struggle with colour flow, erroneously coding the pixels of surrounding tissue as colour. Again, the Apogee 1000 Lite gets it absolutely right.

Pulsed Wave Doppler: