 Hello friends, this is Dr. Sanjeev Mani here from indianradiologists.com and today we are going to do a product review of a wonderful machine from Konica Minolta, the MX-1. So the MX-1 is a really great product. The moment you see it, you're struck by it. Why? Because there's actually no keyboard here. This is one of the rare machines or in fact, the only machine that you can find that has no keyboard is just a keypad that's built into the screen. So what you see here is a complete touch screen. It works entirely on the touch screen and all we have is just three clear buttons here with a fourth F4 and a freeze button. So the three buttons are for focus depth and game and you can use the freeze mode right here even on the screen. But basically this is for people who are used to iPads and touch phones where you can do your entire operations clearly from the touch screen. So what we get from Konica is a machine with Japanese technology. They say it's nano fabricated so it's really light. Total weight is just about 4.5 kg so you can really carry it around within the hospital premises and it has been touted as a point of care ultrasound device. But of all these features, the best feature that we can understand from this machine after using it is that of muscular skeleton. So it has got a great MSK probe. The linear probe especially which is the 11-3 probe. The company also has a 14-3 probe but they actually say that you've got to use this 11 probe and it is really wonderful. We went through some images especially with MSK applications and the results are really fantastic and rival clean models which belong to the A category in about the 25 like category. But perhaps the greatest feature of this machine is the super needle visualization. Now what exactly is that is that when you are going ahead with your procedures especially when you're passing the needle in when you're doing an aspiration or a biopsy or even a needle injection for MSK applications to relieve patients of pain. The super needle technology allows us to visualize this needle. You can see a nice blue color running across the tip of the needle. So you know exactly always where you are with this machine and you can precisely inject your medication especially for MSK applications. The battery is almost for an hour and if you can attach an extra battery to it which you can on this machine we get another hour. So it's two hours of continuous work without electricity which is in itself is wonderful for a point of care ultrasound. So in summary what we have with us is a wonderful new product from Konica Minolta the MX1. It has a convex probe which is very good. We tried it out on the liver and the Doppler 2 came out pretty well as you can see from this photo in picture that we have taken. Besides this what it has is a unique MSK application. The linear probe punches much higher than what it should be in the class category of this machine rivaling almost better models with the MSK quality and applications. The downside of this machine is that it does not have a tedious probe nor does it have 2D applications right now but is believed to come up in the near future. It may also not appeal to the senior generation or older generation who like the traditional TGC settings and the ultrasound settings but for the younger radiologists for point of care ultrasound machines for anesthetists as well as for those who really have a lot of MSK applications which is a growing application today in ultrasound this is an ideal machine to have in a busy running radiology practice.