About Ultrasound

Medical sonography (ultrasonography) is an ultrasound-based diagnostic medical imaging technique used to visualize muscles, tendons, and many internal organs, to capture their size, structure and any pathological lesions with real time tomographic images. Ultrasound has been used by radiologists and sonographers to image the human body for at least 50 years and has become one of the most widely used diagnostic tools in modern medicine. The technology is relatively inexpensive and portable, especially when compared with other techniques, such as magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and computed tomography (CT). Ultrasound is also used to visualize fetuses during routine and emergency prenatal care. Such diagnostic applications used during pregnancy are referred to as obstetric sonography.

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Oldelft Ultrasound

In the 1980s Oldelft started its medical Ultrasound activities with the development of various Ultrasound transducers in the very early days of medical ultrasound.
Oldelft introduced the first TEE (TransEsophageal Echocardiography) transducers in 1988. Since then the company delivered over 8000 TEE transducers.

In 1998 Oldelft Ultrasound was split off as a separate Business Unit within Delft Instruments.

In 2004 Delft Instruments was delisted and the ownership moved over to Alpinvest (private equity fund of Dutch pension funds ABP and PGGM), Advent International (private equity fund) and management.

In 2008 Oldelft has become an independent company, where Alpinvest is still the major shareholder. Other shareholders are Oldelft management and personnel and former Delft Instrument managers.

Oldelft has a cooperation with the Erasmus MC university for more than 25 years in the development of complex ultrasound transducers for cardiology.

Oldelft is also involved in projects with the Universities of Delft, Utrecht and Twente in the field of Women Breast Imaging, Matrix (3D) TEE transducer Imaging and Atrium  Ablation guiding 3D Imaging.