Ultrasound

Affiniti 50

It understands
your everyday
Philips Affiniti 50 ultrasound system
 Designed to set you ahead and help you stay
ahead, Philips Affiniti 50 ultrasound system
delivers innovation that responds to the needs
of a busy ultrasound practice.

Designed for balance

You always go above and beyond to provide the best
care to your patients. But you are expected to do so with
less time, fewer resources, and higher patient volume.

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To balance these many demands, you need diagnostic
information quickly – but not at the expense of accuracy.
You need advanced functionality – but not at the expense
of ease of use. You need a system that is ergonomic –
but built to last for the daily rigors of high patient volume.

Philips Affiniti 50 ultrasound system helps you achieve

this balance. Engineered for efficiency and reliability
and powered by Philips superb performance, it gets you
the diagnostic images you need, quickly. Its intuitive design
and walk-up usability help you provide elegant, efficient
care – every day.

The Affiniti 50 ultrasound

system was designed to work
hard, without high costs.
Total cost of ownership is kept
low through energy-efficient
technology, extensive reliability
testing, and a modular design
that enhances uptime and
rapid repair.

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Workflow meets wow
With Philips Affiniti 50, workflow meets wow. The system addresses the everyday need
to scan quickly and deliver results efficiently, while incorporating those innovations
that make Philips ultrasound the choice of those who demand quality images and
proven clinical applications.

Affiniti 50’s
precision
beamforming,
Tissue Specific
Presets (TSP),
and efficiency
and automation
tools deliver both
performance
and workflow
for confident
throughput.

Affiniti 50 precision beamforming features a wide dynamic

range to deliver superb spatial and contrast resolution,
outstanding tissue uniformity, fewer artifacts, and reduced
image clutter.

Tissue Specific Presets (TSP) automatically adjust over

7500 parameters to optimize the transducer for the specific
exam type, producing excellent image quality with little
or no need for image adjustment.

This outstanding image quality combines with advanced

clinical functionality, including elastography, contrast-
enhanced ultrasound* (CEUS), and Anatomical Intelligence
Ultrasound (AIUS).

Breast strain elastography

*In the U.S. contrast is only approved for cardiac use.

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 Fetal face

Exceptional 3D surface rendering performance provides A full array of transducers offers you excellent image
information to diagnose anomalies. quality on a variety of exam types

More definitive clinical information about tissue stiffness Automation tools save time
Affiniti 50 supports highly sensitive strain elastography, Philips Affiniti 50 system is equipped with automation
which requires no external compression and can be used features that reduce repetitive button pushes and steps,
to assess relative tissue stiffness across a variety of leading to enhanced workflow.
applications, including small parts, breast, and gynecology. • Real-time iSCAN (AutoSCAN)
Automatically and continuously optimizes gain and TGC
Dynamic organ and tumor assessment in real time • Auto Doppler for vascular imaging
With Affiniti 50, you can easily add contrast-enhanced Color-box positioning and sample volume placement
ultrasound (CEUS)* to nearly any exam. Affiniti 50 provides in just three steps, with an average of 67.9% fewer
immediate optimization of CEUS studies and exceptional button pushes
performance across multiple agents and applications, • SmartExam guided workflow
which allows for dynamic assessment of organ and tumor Increases consistency, reduces keystrokes, and decreases
perfusion in real time. exam time by 30%-50% by automatically planning and
processing application protocols
Automation that leads to everyday efficiency
Affiniti 50 incorporates Philips-exclusive Anatomical
Intelligence Ultrasound. It provides advanced functionality,
including global longitudinal strain (GLS) and validated 2D
ejection fraction (EF) in 10 seconds. *In the U.S. contrast is only approved for cardiac use.

Q-App quantification applications

Affiniti 50 offers a wide variety of sophisticated Q-Apps to quantify ultrasound image information.

General Imaging Q-Apps Cardiology Q-Apps

• Intima Media Thickness (IMT) • Intima Media Thickness (IMT)

• General Imaging 3D Quantification (GI 3DQ) • Region of Interest (ROI)
• Region of Interest (ROI) • Strain Quantification (SQ)
• MicroVascular Imaging (MVI) • Automated 2D Cardiac QuantificationA.I. (a2DQA.I.)
• Vascular Plaque Quantification (VPQ) • Automated Cardiac Motion QuantificationA.I. (aCMQA.I.)

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Performance

Liver Aorta

Volume imaging of fetal spine Biceps tendon

Fetal face Apical four-chamber

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you can see

Celiac trunk Carotid volume multiplanar reconstruction

Panoramic breast imaging Liver

Common carotid artery Testicle

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 Designed around your everyday workflow,
Affiniti 50 offers walk-up usability, ergonomics,
and mobility.

Comfort meets
competence
Philips leverages the experiences of its customers to design the Affiniti 50 to address
the challenges of daily scanning. We understand the reality of tight spaces, high patient
volume, technically difficult patients, and time constraints, and we’ve designed the
system with thoughtful details to help lighten your workload. With Philips Affiniti 50,
comfort meets competence in a system that is easy to learn and use.

You won’t notice

it’s there unless it’s
gone, but users have
reported that easy clip,
our innovative cable
management solution,
keeps cables tangle-free
and reduces damage
while decreasing cable
strain to enhance
comfort while scanning.

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With image replication and TGCs on its tablet touchscreen, Affiniti 50’s friendly design and library-quiet operation
Affiniti 50 was designed to reduce reach and button pushes. enhance patient comfort.

Walk-up usability
The intuitive, intelligently designed user interface and
system architecture have been validated by studies that
show that users with ultrasound experience require minimal
training on system use to be able to complete an exam.1

Reduced reach and button pushes

To enhance exam efficiency, Affiniti 50 places relevant,
easy-to-learn controls right at your fingertips, streamlining
workflow. Affiniti 50 is designed to make a full day of
scanning comfortable. Because 80% of ultrasound clinicians
experience work-related pain, and more than 20% suffer
a career-ending injury,2 we’ve designed our intuitive,
tablet-like touchscreen interface to reduce reach and
button pushes.
To reduce the time required for mobile scans, the system
The touchscreen is one of the largest in its class, so users
can be put to sleep in two seconds, and then moved to
can easily make selections and control scanning while
a new location, where it starts up in just seconds.
focusing on their patients.

The control panel and generously sized 54.6 cm (21.5 in)

monitor add to the system’s ergonomics, enhancing
scanning comfort whether standing or sitting. At just
83.5 kg (184 lb), Affiniti 50 is one of the lightest in its
class and is 16% lighter than its predecessor.† With a
small footprint, the system can be easily moved,
and fits into small spaces.

Ready when you need it

To reduce the time required for mobile scans, the system
can be put to sleep in two seconds, and then moved to a
new location, where it starts up in just seconds. When an
exam is finished, a full suite of DICOM capabilities make it
easy to share information. Structured reporting facilitates
patient workflow and information by giving you the ability
to transfer measurements, images, and reports over Multimodality query retrieve
network share, and wireless capability plus easy With multimodality query retrieve, you can review DICOM
connection to printers helps you document exams. CT, NM, MR, mammography, and ultrasound images without
using an external reading station.

1
2014 internal workflow study comparing Affiniti to HD15.
2
Society of Diagnostic Medical Sonography, Industry Standards for the Prevention of Musculoskeletal Disorders in Sonography, May 2003.
† HD15

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 Built to withstand the rigors of daily use, Affiniti 50
offers low operating costs and is backed by
Philips support and value-added services.
The Affiniti 50 system boasts a low total cost
of ownership, making it a smart investment.

A smart investment
Enhance uptime Responsive relationships
• A modular design for enhanced reliability and rapid repair The value of a Philips ultrasound system extends far beyond
• Philips remote services* monitoring, which corrects issues technology. With every Affiniti 50 system, you get access
using a standard Internet connection, reducing the need to our award-winning service organization, our competitive
for service calls financing, and educational programs that help you get the
• Access to our award-winning service organization most out of your system.

Service Request
button for
immediate access
to Philips support.

Exceptional serviceability
The system features a superb modular design for rapid repair.

*Not all services available in all geographies; contact your Philips representative for more information. May require service contract.

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Smart service options* help reduce disruption to your everyday workflow.
We also offer technology to keep your data secure, and education and
utilization reports that help you get the most out of your system.

Remote desktop Proactive monitoring

Spend less time on the phone with a Philips “Virtual Visit” Proactive monitoring allows for the detection and repair
with remote system* interaction for fast technical and of anomalies before they become problems, and helps
clinical troubleshooting and guided scanning options. us to better predict potential failures and proactively act
on them. Increase system availability, optimize workflow,
iSSL technology and promote patient satisfaction by scheduling downtime
This industry-standard protocol meets global privacy as opposed to reacting to an unexpected problem.
standards and provides a safe and secure connection
to the Philips remote services network using your existing Intelligent software architecture
Internet access point. Software is easily optimized, maintained, and restored
by the service user without risk to patient data, giving you
Online support request peace of mind and confidence that your data is secure.
Enter a support request directly from your Affiniti 50 Patient data is stored on a separate partition and physical
system for a fast, convenient communication mechanism location to provide protection and ease of removal,
that reduces workflow interruption and keeps you at the providing you total control of your data.
system and focused on your patient.
Clinical education solutions
Utilization reports Our comprehensive, clinically relevant courses, programs,
Data intelligence tools can help you make informed and learning paths are designed to help you improve
decisions to improve workflow, deliver quality patient operational efficiency and enhance patient care.
care, and decrease the total cost of ownership. This is the
only ultrasound utilization tool that provides individual
transducer usage and the ability to sort by exam type.

Affiniti 50 consumes nearly

40% less power

than its predecessor.†
It consumes less energy than
a toaster, which can help you
save on energy and cooling costs.

* Not all services available in all geographies; contact your Philips representative for more information. May require service contract.
† HD15

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