Forty years of real-time ultrasound

In the laboratories of the former Siemens Reiniger plant in Germany (now Siemens Medical Solutions), the world’s first real-time ultrasound device, the Vidoson, was developed by Siemens’ engineer Richard Soldner.

Real-time ultrasound examinations remain as useful and beneficial today as they were four decades ago. Today’s ultrasound technologies benefit in particular from high performance electronic components that allow for a high degree of differentiation between healthy and diseased tissue, thus enabling clinicians to reach more accurate and precise diagnoses.

At the recent Medica exhibition in Germany, Siemens presented a new generation of fully digital ultrasound systems.