Fujifilm delivers a new standard in women's health with the ASPIRE Cristalle, a mammography system built smarter to address the complex needs of modern breast imaging. By integrating Digital Breast Tomosynthesis (DBT), the ASPIRE Cristalle goes beyond traditional screening to offer a holistic solution that balances diagnostic precision with a compassionate approach to patient care. This system represents a commitment to imaging innovation, ensuring that healthcare providers are equipped with the tools necessary to detect abnormalities earlier while providing a supportive environment for every patient.

The ASPIRE Cristalle is defined by three key areas of insight:

Insight into Image Quality: At the heart of the system is advanced Digital Breast Tomosynthesis (DBT), which captures multiple images from different angles to reconstruct a 3D view of the breast. This innovation significantly reduces tissue overlap, revealing details that might otherwise be hidden and providing radiologists with the clarity needed for confident diagnoses, even in dense breast tissue.
Insight into a Better Patient Experience: Understanding that anxiety and physical discomfort are common barriers to screening, the ASPIRE Cristalle is designed to make the exam as gentle as possible. The system features flexible compression technology that adapts to the natural curvature of the breast, dispersing pressure evenly to minimize pain and improve patient comfort during the procedure.
Insight into Operational Excellence: Efficiency is critical in a busy clinical setting. The ASPIRE Cristalle is engineered to streamline workflow for technologists, featuring automated positioning and simplified controls that reduce exam times. This operational efficiency ensures that clinics can maintain high patient throughput without sacrificing the quality of care or the accuracy of the results.

Mammograms Don't Work if Women won't get Them:

Patented Comfort Paddle: The centerpiece of the system is its intelligent paddle design. Unlike rigid conventional paddles, this unique mechanism features a flexible, slotted 4-way tilt that adapts to the natural curvature of the breast. This flexibility allows pressure to be distributed more evenly, significantly reducing the pinching and discomfort that often deter women from scheduling screenings.
Reduced Patient Anxiety: By providing a noticeably gentler experience, the ASPIRE Cristalle helps alleviate the anxiety associated with mammograms. A more comfortable exam means patients are more likely to return for regular screenings, ensuring that early detection remains a viable option for everyone.
Intelligent Automatic Exposure Control (iAEC): Patient comfort is matched by superior imaging capabilities. The iAEC image processing technology automatically analyzes breast density and implant status to determine the optimal X-ray parameters. This results in high-definition images optimized for every individual breast type.
Low Dose Efficiency: The system achieves its high-quality imaging while maintaining low radiation doses. The combination of even compression and smart exposure control ensures that clinicians receive the clarity they need for diagnosis while minimizing patient exposure.
Versatile Screening Capabilities: Designed to handle a wide range of screening needs, the ASPIRE Cristalle is effective for all breast types, including those with implants. The adaptive compression ensures that image quality remains consistent regardless of the patient's anatomy.

Departments Use Technology:

Streamlined Workflow: Experience smart shortcuts that significantly reduce clicks. Technologists can set exposure and confirm acquired images on a single screen, accelerating the exam process without compromising accuracy.
Simultaneous Adjustments: Save time during image review by adjusting density and contrast for both left and right views simultaneously, ensuring consistent image quality with fewer manual inputs.
Enhanced Patient Comfort: The system minimizes physical discomfort through automated compression and release features, creating a more gentle and reassuring experience for patients during sensitive procedures.
Instant Connectivity: Output individual images immediately to PACS, viewers, or printers even while the exam is in progress. This prevents data bottlenecks and ensures radiologists have access to images as soon as they are ready.
Optimized System Longevity: Improve system availability and extend the equipment's lifespan with programmable automatic startup, sleep, and shutdown modes, ensuring the ASPIRE Cristalle is ready to perform when needed while conserving energy during downtime.

The Hexagonal Close Pattern (HCP) design include:

20% Increase in Detector Sensitivity: The efficient packing of hexagonal pixels creates a larger active area for signal absorption, significantly boosting the detector's sensitivity compared to standard square pixel arrays.
Improved Information Capture: By optimizing how electrical signals are collected and processed, the system delivers sharper, more detailed images that reveal subtle tissue structures often missed by conventional technology.
Lower Patient Dose: The heightened sensitivity of the detector allows for high-quality imaging with reduced radiation exposure, prioritizing patient safety without compromising diagnostic image quality.

You may be ready for tomosynthesis, but you it infrastructure might not be:

Holistic Data Management: Utilizing the power of Synapse 5 PACS and Synapse VNA, the system creates a unified storage environment that prevents the data silos that often plague complex healthcare networks.
Universal Compatibility: Clinicians gain secure, easy-to-manage access to the complete patient imaging record throughout the healthcare enterprise, regardless of the technology-generating source or file format.
Operational Efficiency: The integration ensures that the introduction of DBT enhances rather than hinders your facility's speed, keeping daily operations running smoothly without technical bottlenecks.
Future-Proof Infrastructure: This solution creates a scalable foundation that supports high-volume imaging today while preparing your network for future technological advancements.

Patient-Centric Design:

The ASPIRE Cristalle features the patented Comfort Paddle, a breakthrough in compression technology designed to significantly improve the patient experience during mammograms. Unlike conventional stiff paddles that can cause pinching and uneven force, the Comfort Paddle adapts to the individual, providing a more humane approach to breast imaging.

Adaptive Contouring: The unique slotted paddle edge allows the plate to flex and conform to the natural contour of the breast, reducing the harshness often associated with compression.
Even Pressure Distribution: By bending from the center of the breast toward the thinner edges, the paddle distributes pressure more evenly across the tissue, alleviating localized pain points.
Gradual Compression: The tilting paddle mechanism allows for a gradual application of force, ensuring that the breast is secured gently without sudden or excessive pressure.
Versatile Sizing: To accommodate a diverse range of body types, the Comfort Paddle is available in two sizes: 18x24cm and 24x30cm.
System Compatibility: This advanced paddle comes standard on the ASPIRE Cristalle and is available as an option on the ASPIRE HD Plus.

Technology:

The ASPIRE Cristalle system elevates the standard of breast imaging by integrating advanced Contrast-Enhanced Digital Mammography (CEDM). This technology moves beyond the limitations of conventional imaging by utilizing a dual-energy technique following the administration of an iodinated contrast agent. By capturing both morphological details and physiological data related to angiogenesis, the system illuminates abnormalities that may be obscured in standard mammograms, particularly within dense breast tissue. This innovative approach offers a comprehensive view of breast health, allowing clinicians to identify potential malignancies with greater precision and confidence.

Revealing the Unseen with Contrast-Enhanced Digital Mammography:

MRI-Level Insight with Mammography Efficiency
Obtain critical physiological information comparable to breast MRI without the associated time constraints, high costs, or complex protocols. The ASPIRE Cristalle streamlines the diagnostic process, delivering advanced results within a familiar and efficient workflow.
Superior Diagnostic Accuracy
Enhance your diagnostic capabilities with a system proven to deliver superior sensitivity and specificity compared to digital mammography alone. By combining density assessment with functional imaging, clinicians can detect cancers earlier and reduce false positives.
Visualization of Angiogenesis
Target the blood supply associated with tumor growth. The dual-energy subtraction technique isolates contrast accumulation, clearly effectively identifying neovascularization and morphological anomalies even in difficult-to-image patients.

Comfort Comp:

Significantly Reduced Discomfort: The automatic reduction of compression force prior to exposure alleviates the intense pressure patients feel, making the exam more tolerable and less painful.
High-Definition Imaging: By leveraging tissue hysteresis, the system maintains optimal breast thickness and positioning even as pressure decreases, ensuring radiologists receive the high-quality images needed for confident screenings.
Minimized Compression Time: The system is designed to keep the breast under maximum pressure for the shortest possible time, utilizing immediate decompression to relieve the patient the moment the image is captured.
Improved Screening Adherence: By mitigating the pain associated with exams, the ASPIRE Cristalle helps reduce patient anxiety, encouraging more women to return for their essential annual screenings.
Seamless Workflow Integration: The automated adjustments occur within the standard exam workflow, meaning technologists can provide a higher standard of care without adding time or complexity to the procedure.

Digital Breast Tomosynthesis (DBT):

Intelligent Pressure Reduction: Comfort Comp automatically lowers compression force right before exposure, shortening the time the breast is under maximum pressure.
Enhanced Patient Comfort: By minimizing the duration and intensity of compression, the system alleviates pain and reduces the anxiety often associated with mammography screenings.
Uncompromised Image Quality: Despite the reduction in pressure, the system maintains image clarity and diagnostic accuracy, ensuring radiologists have the high-quality views they need.
Digital Breast Tomosynthesis (DBT): The system is equipped with advanced DBT capabilities, providing three-dimensional imaging that allows for more precise detection of abnormalities compared to standard 2D mammography.
Optimized Workflow: Automatic decompression activates immediately after the scan, streamlining the process for technicians and reducing the total time the patient remains positioned.

Hexagonal Pattern ( HCP ) Technology:

Exceptional Detail at Low Dose: Achieve brilliant image quality without compromising patient safety. The system maintains high Detective Quantum Efficiency (DQE) and Modulation Transfer Function (MTF), producing exceptionally sharp images even at lower radiation doses.
Rapid Acquisition: Improve patient comfort and clinic throughput with a system designed for speed. The ASPIRE Cristalle reduces acquisition time to just 15 seconds, making the process faster and less stressful for the patient.
Ultra-Fine Resolution: Visualize the smallest structures with clarity. The 50-micron image display ensures that minute details are rendered with precision, facilitating early and accurate detection.

iAEC plus ISC:

Intelligent AEC (iAEC) plus: Going beyond simple thickness measurements, the iAEC system analyzes the actual breast composition to calculate the precise dose and exposure technique required for each examination. This leads to significantly more accurate exposure parameters than standard AEC systems.
Streamlined Workflow for Implants: The system enhances efficiency during examinations of implanted breasts. By automatically calculating the optimal exposure, it reduces the need for manual adjustments and speeds up the imaging process.
Image-based Spectrum Conversion (ISC): This technology maximizes image contrast while leveraging the dose-saving advantages of a tungsten target. It ensures consistent, high-quality visualization across all exposure settings and breast types.

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