Improve your image

ClearVue 550 ultrasound system

 Smart and intuitive
One look at the Philips ClearVue 550 ultrasound system and you’ll see the smooth, graceful lines and
elegant design that show this is a new Philips quality imaging system. The versatile ClearVue 550 with
Active Array technology offers image quality designed to enhance diagnostic confidence, features
that are sophisticated enough to be simple, and advances in workflow, ease of use, and reliability.

Improve your image(s)

Your patients expect the best from you.
ClearVue 550 helps you deliver. Count on
stunning images with the speed and precision
gained from years of Philips ultrasound
experience worldwide. Proprietary Active
Array technology integrates key imaging
technologies into the transducer for superb
images in a lightweight system. Create quality
2D, color, and Doppler images with the press
of the iSCAN button. Tap the power of Philips
exclusive SonoCT and XRES technologies to
enhance image quality.

Sophisticated, yet simple

ClearVue 550 is intuitive to learn because
it puts the controls you use most often
precisely where you expect them to be.
The sleek control panel is designed to help
speed image acquisition and management,
while customized SmartExam protocols
streamline workflow and enhance productivity.

Smart design
ClearVue 550’s elegant design hints at
the reduced complexity of the system.
The modular design means enhanced
serviceability and reliability inside a
lightweight cart for increased portability
and maneuverability.

ClearVue 550 features a 19-inch fold-down LCD monitor

with full motion, articulating arm, and on-cart storage.

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ClearVue makes it simple
ClearVue 550 offers advanced Philips automation, procedure guidance, and flexibility with the image quality you demand, with features
such as iSCAN one-button automation and SmartExam protocols. Philips provides advances in workflow and customizable report
templates that are easy to work with, including easy query for data entry fields.

The one-button automation of iSCAN rapidly optimizes exam parameters so that users can focus more on their patients
and less on system adjustments.

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Valuable performance
The system looks sleek from the outside, but it’s what’s on the inside that you’ll value most. Powered by Philips
proprietary Active Array technology, the ClearVue 550 is destined to alter your perception of ultrasound by
delivering diagnostic images with quality, speed, and precision. We have integrated proven technologies such as
XRES and SonoCT from our most advanced ultrasound systems into the ClearVue 550 so you get the excellent
image quality you expect from the leader in premium quality ultrasound.

Transducer presets help leverage transducer strengths, and four transducer Designed around you, the intuitive user interface provides direct access to
connectors allow users to quickly switch transducers when needed. the controls you use most often, speeding exams and enhancing workflow.

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Demonstrating value far beyond its price
What it is Why it matters
Core features
Active Array technology Integrates key imaging technologies into the transducer for superb
image quality in a high-performing, lightweight, reliable system
Broadband beamforming and advanced Acquires and processes the entire tissue signature for premium class tissue
signal processing differentiation across multiple patient types
Advanced Doppler and color Doppler capabilities (CW, Perform advanced clinical studies with confidence
PW, CFI, CPA, HPRF PW, TDI, Triplex)
Configurable reports and analysis Perform customized in-depth clinical analysis and reporting for enhanced
communication of results
OB workflow enhancements (Quick-launch OB calcs, May reduce exam time and enhance workflow
quad view/AFI, flush analysis at end exam, 40+ week OB
tables, follicle measurement display side-by-side report,
date of conception, report printer selection, PDF report
on USB)

Options
XRES adaptive image processing and SonoCT XRES reduces speckle noise artifacts for better margin definition and image
image compounding clarity, while SonoCT reduces artifacts, improves contrast resolution, and allows
irregular borders to be more readily visualized

Advanced system automation (2D, color and PW Quick one-button system performance optimization streamlines your workflow,
Doppler iSCAN options, 2D OPT, High Q, Intelligent may enhance patient throughput, and increases exam consistency
Doppler, Adaptive Doppler, Adaptive color Doppler)

Tissue Harmonic Imaging with pulse inversion technology Reduces many artifacts while preserving tissue definition and resolution

Anatomical M-mode option Easily generate M-mode trace from a user-defined line; ideal for patients with
abnormal cardiac shapes or malpositioned cardiac structures

Panoramic and Freehand 3D imaging Perform extended field of view imaging and freehand 3D surface rendering for
enhanced exam documentation and communication

SmartExam protocols Exam system-guided protocols enhance performance, increase consistency, and
reduce exam time

DICOM networking option Provides Ethernet connection to DICOM networks for PACS viewing and
archiving capabilities
Obtains patient information from hospital-generated barcodes to accelerate
Barcode scanner
efficiency and decrease errors in data

The lightweight system has a small footprint for

increased portability and easy maneuverability,
making it a perfect fit even in small spaces.

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 Making the most
of your system
Designed for serviceability and reliability, the ClearVue 550 provides advances that help you optimize
your system every day. Advanced serviceability features and value-added services are designed to
help keep you running at peak performance. We are committed to you and your success.

Advanced serviceability features A green product

and value-added services* Sustainability at Philips is all about improving
Head to toe, Philips advanced service features and the health and well-being of individuals and the

versatility is yours value-added services boost communities they live in. The ClearVue 550 is
productivity and promote uptime. energy efficient. With low power consumption,
Where available, Remote Desktop it helps save on energy costs. And its low
Use the ClearVue 550 to enhance your enables “virtual visits,” enhancing heat dissipation is ideal in smaller rooms
ultrasound capabilities across a range technical and clinical support which may help reduce cooling costs.
of applications. and offering new options for training.
Proactive monitoring promotes uptime
• Abdominal • Vascular
through continuous monitoring that
• Small parts – Cerebrovascular
alerts Philips personnel to potential
and superficial – Peripheral
problems so they can be corrected
• Pediatric vascular
before system operation is affected.
– Head • Transcranial
You can also connect your system to
– Hips Doppler
the Philips Remote Service Network
• Musculoskeletal • Cardiac
and enter a support request directly
• Urology and – Adult
from your ClearVue 550 system,
prostate – Pediatric
or generate a utilization report that
• Obstetrical
provides data on key parameters to
• Gynecological
help you manage how the system is
and fertility
used. On-cart software maintenance
tools help optimize, maintain, and
repair system software with ease
and protect custom annotations,
calculations, presets and patient data.

* Not all services are available in all geographies and require

service contract coverage.

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 Trust in the Philips ultrasound legacy
At Philips, we’ve built our innovative portfolio of ultrasound products
by striving for change that improves and simplifies the lives of patients and
healthcare providers worldwide. The new ClearVue 550, with leading-edge
technology and an intuitive design, is no exception. Quality healthcare is now
more accessible and affordable from a brand you can trust.

Innovative financing and

security solutions
Philips Medical Capital delivers flexible
financial solutions to help you place
a new ClearVue 550 in your facility
or practice. Our financial experts
understand your unique financial needs
and provide flexible solutions that
optimize asset utilization, reduce costs,
and increase financial flexibility.

The ClearVue 550’s modular design makes it simple to service and highly reliable,
helping to further lower the cost of ownership.

Philips SmartPath assures you easy access to solutions and innovations

for the full life of your ultrasound system, so you can boost your clinical
and operational potential and achieve your organizational goals.
Optimize your system’s Enhance your equipment Transform your investment
performance both now with regular technology at the end of your system’s life
and in the future with regular upgrades, and take by transitioning seamlessly
and ongoing updates, including advantage of the newest to a next-generation solution
functionality improvements features and capabilities. or refurbished option.
Optimize and remote technical support. Enhance Transform

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