Escalon Medical Corp. announced that it received U.S. Food and Drug Administration 510(k) clearance for its new tablet-based ultrasound imaging system, the Sonomed Escalon VuPad. The VuPad combines Sonomed Escalon's superior UBM and newly enhanced B-scan image quality with an ultra-high-resolution screen that has 25% larger viewing area than other portable ultrasound devices.

Proprietary Enhanced Focus Rendering enables capture of both crisp still images and high-resolution video clips that can be reviewed frame-by-frame. The VuPad is also remarkably easy to use, due to intuitively designed touch screen controls.