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National Post
26-06-2025
- Health
- National Post
FUJIFILM VisualSonics Launches the Vevo F2 LAZR-X20 Photoacoustic Imaging Platform for Preclinical Ultrasound
Article content The world's first ultra-high to low frequency ultrasound system is designed to enhance research efforts across multiple applications, including oncology, cardiovascular, neurobiology and molecular biology Article content TORONTO — FUJIFILM VisualSonics Inc., a world leader in ultra-high frequency ultrasound and photoacoustic imaging systems, today announced the availability of the multi-modal Vevo F2 LAZR-X20 Photoacoustic Imaging Platform. The system features high-powered, intelligent laser technology for advanced tissue characterization with high anatomical accuracy for preclinical animal models. Article content 'For more than two decades, FUJIFILM VisualSonics has been delivering ultra-high frequency ultrasound and photoacoustic imaging solutions to the scientific research community,' said Greg Nesbitt, vice president, global high frequency, FUJIFILM VisualSonics Inc. 'As a leader in the space, we saw an opportunity to expand the scope of questions that can be answered using photoacoustics. The Vevo LAZR-X20 underscores our commitment to constantly innovating and bringing more applications and capabilities to a broader set of research domains.' The advanced laser technology in the Vevo F2 LAZR-X20 provides enhanced imaging depth and high-resolution in real time, allowing researchers to visualize and measure various tissue types and contrast agents. Leveraging a unique wavelength range of 660-1320 nm, the system unlocks advanced tissue characterization capabilities that were beyond reach with our previous-generation technologies. Tissue chromophores like lipids and collagen, which exhibit unique absorption profiles within this range, can be detected non-invasively. This enables researchers to visualize tumor microenvironments and opens the potential for quantifying therapeutic efficiency. This paves the way for possible deeper insights and more impactful discoveries. Article content 'This cutting-edge product represents a significant advancement in our portfolio, seamlessly integrating photoacoustics with ultrasound imaging into a single platform,' said Andrew Needles, director, product innovation, FUJIFILM VisualSonics Inc. 'The new system provides excellent image quality and an expanded spectral range, providing researchers with comprehensive data for their imaging studies. We believe this breakthrough technology will not only enhance current research capabilities but also has the potential to unlock new applications, particularly in the fields of oncology and neurobiology.' Article content Learn more about the multi-modal Vevo F2 LAZR-X20 here. About Fujifilm FUJIFILM VisualSonics, Inc., is a global leader in real time, in vivo, ultra-high frequency ultrasound and photoacoustic imaging systems. With headquarters in Toronto, Canada and offices around the world, FUJIFILM VisualSonics is represented globally across an integrated sales network. FUJIFILM VisualSonics is recognized worldwide for providing cutting edge imaging technologies for the advancement of preclinical research, particularly in cardiovascular, oncology, neurobiology and developmental biology areas. With the expansion of the product portfolio to include a new preclinical product, FUJIFILM VisualSonics now broadens their range of imaging technologies across the preclinical market. FUJIFILM VisualSonics is a subsidiary of FUJIFILM Sonosite, Inc. and a part of FUJIFILM Holdings Corporation. For more information, please go to: Article content FUJIFILM Holdings Corporation, headquartered in Tokyo, leverages its depth of knowledge and proprietary core technologies to deliver innovative products and services across the globe through the four key business segments of healthcare, electronics, business innovation, and imaging with over 70,000 employees. Guided and united by our Group Purpose of 'giving our world more smiles,' we address social challenges and create a positive impact on society through our products, services, and business operations. Under its medium-term management plan, VISION2030, which ends in FY2030, we aspire to continue our evolution into a company that creates value and smiles for various stakeholders as a collection of global leading businesses and achieve a global revenue of 4 trillion yen (29 billion USD at an exchange rate of 140 JPY/USD). For more information, please visit: Article content Article content Article content Article content Contacts Article content Media Contact Article content Article content Marissa Confredo Article content Article content Article content
Business Wire
26-06-2025
- Business
- Business Wire
FUJIFILM VisualSonics Launches the Vevo F2 LAZR-X20 Photoacoustic Imaging Platform for Preclinical Ultrasound
TORONTO--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- FUJIFILM VisualSonics Inc., a world leader in ultra-high frequency ultrasound and photoacoustic imaging systems, today announced the availability of the multi-modal Vevo F2 LAZR-X20 Photoacoustic Imaging Platform. The system features high-powered, intelligent laser technology for advanced tissue characterization with high anatomical accuracy for preclinical animal models. 'For more than two decades, FUJIFILM VisualSonics has been delivering ultra-high frequency ultrasound and photoacoustic imaging solutions to the scientific research community,' said Greg Nesbitt, vice president, global high frequency, FUJIFILM VisualSonics Inc. 'As a leader in the space, we saw an opportunity to expand the scope of questions that can be answered using photoacoustics. The Vevo LAZR-X20 underscores our commitment to constantly innovating and bringing more applications and capabilities to a broader set of research domains.' The advanced laser technology in the Vevo F2 LAZR-X20 provides enhanced imaging depth and high-resolution in real time, allowing researchers to visualize and measure various tissue types and contrast agents. Leveraging a unique wavelength range of 660-1320 nm, the system unlocks advanced tissue characterization capabilities that were beyond reach with our previous-generation technologies. Tissue chromophores like lipids and collagen, which exhibit unique absorption profiles within this range, can be detected non-invasively. This enables researchers to visualize tumor microenvironments and opens the potential for quantifying therapeutic efficiency. This paves the way for possible deeper insights and more impactful discoveries. 'This cutting-edge product represents a significant advancement in our portfolio, seamlessly integrating photoacoustics with ultrasound imaging into a single platform,' said Andrew Needles, director, product innovation, FUJIFILM VisualSonics Inc. 'The new system provides excellent image quality and an expanded spectral range, providing researchers with comprehensive data for their imaging studies. We believe this breakthrough technology will not only enhance current research capabilities but also has the potential to unlock new applications, particularly in the fields of oncology and neurobiology.' Learn more about the multi-modal Vevo F2 LAZR-X20 here. About Fujifilm FUJIFILM VisualSonics, Inc., is a global leader in real time, in vivo, ultra-high frequency ultrasound and photoacoustic imaging systems. With headquarters in Toronto, Canada and offices around the world, FUJIFILM VisualSonics is represented globally across an integrated sales network. FUJIFILM VisualSonics is recognized worldwide for providing cutting edge imaging technologies for the advancement of preclinical research, particularly in cardiovascular, oncology, neurobiology and developmental biology areas. With the expansion of the product portfolio to include a new preclinical product, FUJIFILM VisualSonics now broadens their range of imaging technologies across the preclinical market. FUJIFILM VisualSonics is a subsidiary of FUJIFILM Sonosite, Inc. and a part of FUJIFILM Holdings Corporation. For more information, please go to: FUJIFILM Holdings Corporation, headquartered in Tokyo, leverages its depth of knowledge and proprietary core technologies to deliver innovative products and services across the globe through the four key business segments of healthcare, electronics, business innovation, and imaging with over 70,000 employees. Guided and united by our Group Purpose of 'giving our world more smiles,' we address social challenges and create a positive impact on society through our products, services, and business operations. Under its medium-term management plan, VISION2030, which ends in FY2030, we aspire to continue our evolution into a company that creates value and smiles for various stakeholders as a collection of global leading businesses and achieve a global revenue of 4 trillion yen (29 billion USD at an exchange rate of 140 JPY/USD). For more information, please visit: For further details about our commitment to sustainability and Fujifilm's Sustainable Value Plan 2030, click here.
Winnipeg Free Press
14-06-2025
- Politics
- Winnipeg Free Press
The end of a raucous legislature session
Opinion On June 2 at the end of the spring session of the Manitoba legislature, the two main parties issued duelling press releases, each claiming they were listening and responding to the needs and concerns of Manitobans. The NDP government boasted it had delivered 'a strong, ambitious legislative agenda' of 39 bills that would improve health care, remove interprovincial trade barriers, make groceries more affordable, enhance public safety, and act on many other matters. The Progressive Conservative (PC) opposition countered with the claim that several of the more important bills were based on ideas stolen from them. This credit claiming by the parties has become an annual ritual. Over the past five decades, the proceedings of the legislature have increasingly come to resemble a permanent election campaign in which the parties spend more time seeking to score political points against their opponent than using questions of the premier and ministers and debating bills for the constructive purpose of improving public policy. The just-finished session featured too much shouting and name calling across the aisle and several unfortunate episodes of disorderly conduct. It was not, however, the most raucous session that has happened in the modern era of Manitoba politics, which I date from the breakthrough victory of the NDP in 1969. For observers of my generation, it is impossible to forget the French language crisis of 1983-1984 during which then-PC leader Sterling Lyon and his MLAs ferociously fought a NDP government bill entrenching language rights by using prolonged bell-ringing which paralyzed the legislature and brought angry, screaming crowds into building. I recognize that partisan competition provides the motivation and energy which drives the institution. The clash between opposing philosophies and policy perspectives helps to define what actions are in the public interest. Criticism from the opposition is the main way that the government is made to answer and to be held accountable through the media to the electorate. It would be impossible, and wrong, to seek to drive disagreement, emotion and passion entirely out of the proceedings of the legislature. The legislature actually has two modes of operation: most often it is adversarial between the parties, occasionally it demonstrates the capacity for cross-party collaboration. Because media coverage focuses mainly on the partisan clashes in Question Period, many members of the public sees the legislative process as only games-playing by the parties. In my view partisanship has become excessive, unduly negative and personal in content. There is throughout the legislative process too much rude heckling, personal attacks, bullying, inflammatory rhetoric, defensiveness and feigned indignation. Women MLAs are targeted disproportionately. Two episodes in the past session illustrate the problem. On April 22, PC MLA Greg Nesbitt questioned the NDP government about a contract for mental health therapy, suggesting, without providing any evidence, that it may have been for the personal benefit of NDP Finance Minister Adrien Sala. Either this was a cheap ' gotcha' question or Nesbitt had failed to do his homework to learn that the contract was actually for mental health support to landfill searchers. It strained credulity for the PC interim leader Wayne Ewasko to claim that his MLA was simply seeking information. In the shouting match which ensued, the Speaker, Tom Lindsay lost his cool and threatened to toss Nesbitt from the chamber, a threat he apologized for the next day. He also expressed frustration with the lack of decorum and the refusal of MLAs to immediately obey his calls for the heckling to cease. There is only so much the Speaker can do under the rules to maintain civility and to curtail belligerent language. The deeper problem is the culture of the institution which is shaped by many factors, most importantly by the words and actions of the party leaders. This brings me to the second episode which happened in the committee of supply on May 21 when the spending estimates of the executive council (which includes the premier's office) were under review. Proceedings of the meeting can be found on a YouTube stream. Both Premier Wab Kinew and Opposition Leader Obby Khan were in attendance and the meeting turned ugly almost immediately with the two MLAs showing intense dislike and disrespect for one another. A backbench NDP MLA serving as committee chair was hard pressed to maintain order. During Khan's opening statement on economic indicators, he was constantly heckled by Kinew, who at one point described the opposition leader as 'a joke.' Khan responded by bringing up Kinew's encounters with the law as a young adult and described him as a 'toxic, bullying leader' (echoing allegations from a former NDP MLA banished from that caucus). Kinew fought back by accusing Khan of being part of the ethics scandal involving violations of the caretaker convention during the final days of the former Heather Stefanson government. Fostering a more respectful and constructive culture starts with the leaders who must model more responsible behaviour and encourage their MLAs to restrain their outbursts and personal attacks when emotions rise in the chamber and in the committees. Paul G. Thomas is professor emeritus of Political Studies at the University of Manitoba.
