Mindray introduced its Resona 7 Lightning Edition premium radiology ultrasound scanner at RSNA 2021 in Chicago.
Mindray's new Resona 7 Lightning Edition. Image courtesy of Mindray.The new edition features a variety of workflow enhancements, system design improvements, and new imaging capabilities, according to the vendor. For example, its second-generation Ultra-Wideband Non-Linear (UWN+) contrast-enhanced ultrasound imaging technology now supports high frame-rate imaging on expanded transducers. The technique can now improve visualization of vascular perfusion in the arterial phase by using plane-wave imaging on linear transducers, Mindray said.
The firm has also incorporated its high frame-rate (HiFR) Sound Touch Elastography method, which aims to provide smoother transition times and faster rates during live 2D shear-wave imaging. Also, the vendor's Glazing Flow 3D software is designed to optimize visualization of microvascular perfusion states and improve delineation of vessel borders.
The Lightning Edition release is available for free to all current Resona 7 customers who are still within their five-year warranty, Mindray said.
![Examples of ultrasound findings and techniques. (A) Images in a 39-year-old male patient with a mass in the left thigh. The mass is heterogeneous on the B-mode US image (compared with the patient in D) and showed increased microvascularity (superb microvascular imaging [SMI]) and shear-wave elastography (SWE) values. Undifferentiated pleomorphic sarcoma was diagnosed at biopsy (with pleomorphic rhabdomyosarcoma in surgical specimen). (B) Images in an 18-year-old male patient with a mass in the left leg. The mass is hypoechoic on the B-mode image, with no other findings suggestive of malignancy. The lesion is in contact with the cortex of the tibia, which is slightly irregular. CT revealed a doubtful anteromedial tibial erosion. The microvascular study demonstrated high vascularization, suggestive of malignancy. Periosteal Ewing sarcoma was diagnosed with both histologic and immunohistochemical confirmation. (C) Images in a 69-year-old female patient with a lump growing on the outside of the left leg. Multiple SWE examinations were performed (please note the high values obtained in the measurements, whereas the color map highlights the stiffness relative to adjacent tissues). SMI showed areas of increased vascularization to target for sampling. Undifferentiated spindle cell sarcoma was diagnosed at biopsy, with residual leiomyosarcoma in the surgical specimen after neoadjuvant therapy. (D) Images in a 56-year-old female patient with a mass in the right thigh. The mass is heterogeneous at both B-mode ultrasound (similar to patient A) and MRI (coronal T2-weighted spectral attenuated inversion recovery [SPAIR]; T1-weighted pre-contrast and postcontrast imaging), which even shows uptake after the administration of paramagnetic contrast material, which is traditionally suggestive of malignancy. Low values at SMI and elastography are suggestive of benignity. Spindle cell lipoma was diagnosed at biopsy, with atypical spindle cell lipomatous tumor in the surgical specimen.](https://img.auntminnie.com/mindful/smg/workspaces/default/uploads/2026/08/images-radiol250278fig2.APCFLSvX6p.jpg?auto=format%2Ccompress&dpr=2&fit=crop&h=167&q=70&w=250)
