Cedara Baby Explorer™ | Download Product Sheet

Cedara Baby Explorer runs on standard PC hardware and acquires images from any ultrasound scanner.

3D Fetal Imaging Cedara’s Baby Explorer™ software is a cost effective, software-only solution that enables technologists and other healthcare professionals to quickly and easily generate 3D fetal views. With sophisticated volume rendering capabilities, Baby Explorer enables specialists to visualize advanced anatomical features of babies, which can be difficult to discern in standard 2D images. Ultrasound 3D neonatal studies are used to ensure the proper growth of the fetus and to investigate cleft palette and other gross abnormalities.

Capabilities contained in Baby Explorer provide an excellent means to update legacy ultrasound devices and equip them with modern, diagnostic functionality. For ultrasound manufacturers, many of these characteristics can also be directly integrated into console applications.

Key Features

• 3D tissue segmentation and clipping tools
• Works with any ultrasound system
• Animation and multimedia export
• Multiplanar Reformatting (MPR)
• Prints to standard printers
• Gradient shaded rendering
• Easy acquisition controls
• Opacity rendering
• HTML reporting

Data Management Patient folder data management (i.e., start, open and delete)

Acquisition

• Captures ultrasound images directly from conventional ultrasound systems
• Allows video setting adjustments
• Able to acquire 2D sweeps in either linear or fan motion
• Displays live mode
• Allows previews of the selected sweep
• Able to modify ROI after an acquisition is performed
• Allows the display of the current sweep in the 3D window

3D Image Review

• Four viewports to display the sweep: 3D surface rendered, axial, coronal, and sagittal
• 3D image manipulation tools (e.g., window, zoom, pan)
• Advanced smoothing algorithm to smooth the surface of the volume on large data sets
• Able to adjust the opacity to cut the noise levels and improve the quality of the rendered volume
• Able to create VOI from clippers to explore the volume
• Front Cut Clippers — allows exposure of the structures inside the volume
• Bubble Clippers — allows display of the volume contained in the circle clipper scalpel tool
• Able to adjust the geometry (i.e., change scan types, reverse slide order, change width of the volume)

HTML Reporting

• Able to add text comments to the study as an HTML file
• Able to include the 2D cine of the fetus as an AVI file and the 3D volume rendered image of the fetus as a JPEG image

Printing and Multimedia

• Prints to standard printers and exports to standard image formats (i.e., BMP and JPG)
• Able to export the animated 3D volume to AVI format
• Able to print and export multiplanar images

Minimum System Requirements

• Microsoft® Windows® XP, 2000, ME, 98
• Intel® Pentium® III 800Mhz
• 128 Megabytes RAM, 20-Gigabyte hard disk
• 32-bit color display video card and video capture card

Not currently available for sale in Europe.

Supported Video Cards