Cardio Vascular

A new advance in portable echocardiography, extends the reach of medical professionals to help diagnose cardiovascular anatomy and LV function by adding more quantitative tools and pushing the boundaries with exceptional levels of image quality.

The Vivid q helps provide accuracy and enables diagnostic confidence - while allowing you to increase your productivity.

Performance features and clinical tools

  • The addition of the M4S-RS matrix array transducer produces enhanced 2D images for adult cardiac applications.
  • Coded Octave imaging takes GE’s image quality to the next level, enhancing your images for color flow and Doppler imaging.
  • Smart Depth automatically adapts imaging parameters to help newer users see better results, expert operators save time and increase standardization among users.
  • Smart Stress improves workflow, shortens optimization time and provides reproducibility for review, wall-segment scoring and reporting.


2D and 2D color flow of APLAX view

2D and 2D color flow of APLAX view
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Parametric imaging and quantification support clinical decisions

Vivid q builds on the many features and technologies of Vivid i with more performance, new quantitative analysis tools and a wider range of applications.


Auto EF

  • Provides the most commonly used parameter to describe the LV function, the Ejection Fraction (EF).
  • Assists in finding the endocardial border.
  • Reduces the dependency of "seeing" the border in each image by analyzing and tracking the myocardial tissue.
  • Automatically locates the end systolic and end diastolic frames.


Auto EF

Auto EF
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Automated Function Imaging (AFI)

  • Supports LV function analysis, visualizing the longitudinal wall shortening and lengthening and highlighting a segment's contraction.
  • Can potentially be used to differentiate disease from non disease segments.
  • Decreases LV function assessment variability, provides clinical decision support and streamlines workflow.


Automated Function Imaging (AFI) with bull’s eye

Automated Function Imaging (AFI) with bull’s eye
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Tissue Velocity Imaging (TVI) and Tissue Tracking (TT)

Show tissue velocity and displacement in the direction of the ultrasound beam with high temporal resolution, and also visualize short events.


Tissue Synchronization Imaging (TSI)

Translates comprehensive quantification into an easy-to understand image demonstrating mechanical synchronicity of different myocardial segments.


Tissue Synchronization Imaging (TSI)

Tissue Synchronization Imaging (TSI)
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Intracardiac Echo (ICE) imaging

Combining exceptional detail and quality of information with advanced interventional echocardiography ultrasound ICE imaging technology, Vivid q opens up a new window to the heart.

  • ICE catheters deliver excellent image quality and real-time visualization of cardiac structural anatomy, with therapy catheters for monitoring and guidance during interventional procedures.
  • ICE gives you a better understanding of structural orientation during trans-septal puncture procedures to help you avoid clinical complications


Shared Services

Vivid q's compact, laptop size and light weight make it easy to take exceptional ultrasound imaging performance wherever it's needed.

  • Conduct more vascular and abdominal exams with Vivid q's comprehensive set of linear and convex transducers.
  • Display blood flow with 2D-like spatial resolution and no color-flow-imaging artifacts with B-Flow and Blood Flow Imaging (BFI).
  • Measure the carotid artery's intima-media thickness quickly and accurately for early information on atherosclerosis risk with the IMT analysis package.
  • Use Wide Aperture to improve the signal-to-noise ratio and spatial resolution for better penetration in deeper structures.


Pulse wave Doppler of portal vein

Pulse wave Doppler of portal vein
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Pulse wave Doppler of right common carotid artery

Pulse wave Doppler of right common carotid artery
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OR/Anesthesia

  • Address perioperative needs with transthoracic examinations under challengIng conditions.
  • Enable monitoring with the help of adult or pediatric TEE.
  • Support saphenous vein harvesting and carotid evaluations.
  • Use the intra-operative probe to support specific diagnoses in the OR during and directly after open-heart surgery.
  • Share images remotely on any PC with the eVue option for efficient, convenient consultations.


Pediatric Echocardiography

  • Examine children of all ages, including newborns.
  • Choose from a wide range of sector, micro convex, linear and transesophageal transducers plus a specific ECG cable.