- Freedom from Rent.
- Freedom from Cable.
- Freedom from Platforms.
Freedom from Gel.
One Pad. Zero Gel. Zero Wipe-Down.
TodoPocus already freed your scanning from monthly fees, from cables and from a single operating system. The pad frees it from gel. Peel a sterile pad, press it on the skin and scan straight through it. Lift it off when you finish: no gel on the skin, the probe or the chair, and nothing to wipe away.
- Gel per scan
- 0 ml
- Stand-off
- 4 mm
- Per pad
- $2.80
One pad. Every linear scan.
Vascular access, nerve blocks, tendons, the thyroid, skin and nails, the face: wherever a linear probe works close to the surface, one sterile pad does all the coupling, without a drop of gel.
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Vascular access.
Find the vein on color Doppler, then place the line with the pad still on: the catheter needle can pass through the hydrogel. Sterile coupling from the first look to the last.
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Nerve blocks.
Set the pad inside the sterile drape and leave it on for the whole block. The probe sits on hydrogel while the block needle enters through the pad or at its edge.
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Tendons and small joints.
On the wrist, hand and ankle, tendons run just under the skin. The 4 mm pad lifts the probe face so they land in a clearer band of the image, and it follows the curve of the joint.
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Thyroid and neck.
The pad lies flush on the curve of the lower neck. Scan each lobe and the isthmus, lifting and re-placing the pad as you go, and finish with a clean collar.
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Skin and nail bed.
Epidermis, dermis and the nail unit sit in the first few millimeters. Through the pad they move down into a clearer band, sharp at every boundary, and the hydrogel drapes over a curved nail in full contact.
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Aesthetic face.
Chart the facial vessels before filler with the probe’s weight on hydrogel, not on the skin. It is the same coupling pad used with TodoPocus FaceAtlas AI.
Peel. Place. Scan. Lift.
Four moves from a sealed pad to clean skin, and not one of them needs a bottle.
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Peel.
Open the seal and peel a pad from its liner. Each one is sterile and goes to one patient.
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2
Place.
Press it onto the skin over the target. It holds on its own, so both hands stay free.
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3
Scan.
Bring the probe down onto the hydrogel and image in B-mode or color Doppler. The pad does all the coupling.
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4
Lift.
Peel it off in one piece, with nothing to wipe. Or press it down again on the next site.
4 mm between the probe and the skin.
Each pad is a clear hydrogel disc, Ø 35 mm across and 4 mm thick. On screen the pad fills the first 4 mm of depth, and the skin begins just below it.
- 1Transdutor
- 2Gel pad, hydrogel
- 3Epidermis
- 4Dermis
- 5Superficial vessels
- 6Subcutaneous fat
- Diameter
- Ø 35 mm
- Thickness
- 4 mm
- Speed of sound
- 1520–1620 m/s
- Acoustic impedance
- 1.5–1.7 × 106 Pa·s/m
- Attenuation
- ≤ 0.1 dB/(cm·MHz)
- Loss, 4 mm at 24 MHz
- ≤ 0.96 dB one way
Skin layers in a clearer band.
The pad holds the probe face 4 mm above the skin. Epidermis, dermis and superficial fat move down into a clearer band of the image, and every boundary between them reads sharp.1, 2
It carries sound like soft tissue.
At 35 °C the pad carries sound at 1520–1620 m/s, a range that brackets the 1540 m/s scanners build their image on, and its impedance of 1.5–1.7 × 106 Pa·s/m falls within the range of soft tissue. Attenuation holds at or below 0.1 dB/(cm·MHz), so 4 mm at 24 MHz costs no more than 0.96 dB one way.
Vessels stay round under color Doppler.
With the pad in between, the probe sits on hydrogel, not on skin, and the superficial vascular plexus stays open for color Doppler.1, 2 Corvino and colleagues found Doppler flow in 84% of focal skin lesions scanned through a gel stand-off pad; without the pad, 56%.3
Leave the pad in place for the injection: the needle goes through it into the skin below.
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EFSUMB Position Statement on Dermatologic Ultrasound. Alfageme F, Wortsman X, et al. Ultraschall Med 2021;42(1):39–47. Gel pads that separate the epidermis from the transducer, for an accurate read of the epidermis and no compression of the superficial vascular plexus. doi.org/10.1055/a-1161-8872
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Preliminary Experience in Transducer Preparation for Intraoral Imaging. Kripfgans OD, Chan H-L. J Ultrasound Med 2023;42(9). A solid gel pad set as a stand-off increases the distance between transducer and skin; pressing on soft tissue collapses the small superficial vessels and cuts Doppler velocity and power readings. doi.org/10.1002/jum.16224
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Utility of a gel stand-off pad in the detection of Doppler signal on focal nodular lesions of the skin. Corvino A, et al. J Ultrasound 2020;23(1):45–53. Peri- or intra-lesional flow: 84% with the pad, 56% without. doi.org/10.1007/s40477-019-00376-3
Sterile for every needle.
Every pad is sterile and sealed on its own. Open one per patient, leave it in place for color Doppler and for the injection, and let the needle pass through the hydrogel.
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One seal, one patient.
Each pad comes sterile in its own seal. Open a fresh one for every patient and every procedure; a box keeps for 5 years.
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On through Doppler and the injection.
Once placed, the pad holds its spot for the whole color Doppler survey and for the injection itself. It grips by itself, with no gel to top up.
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The needle goes through.
Choose the entry point by anatomy alone: the needle can pass through the hydrogel into the skin below, or enter at the pad’s edge.
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Lift, re-place, clean skin.
Peel the pad, move it to the next site and press it down again. When you lift it for good, the skin is ready for antisepsis with nothing to wipe off first.
What the guidance asks for.
Sterile, single-use gel for any scan that leads to a needle. Each TodoPocus pad is sterile and single-use, sealed on its own.
- CDCAlert, 2025
Scans that prepare for or guide a percutaneous procedure, peripheral IV lines included, call for single-use gel that carries a sterile label.4
- AIUMOfficial statement, 2025
When infection is a concern, sterile single-use packets come before nonsterile gel, and every procedure that passes a needle through tissue counts.5
- UKHSAGuidance, 2025
Vascular access and every other ultrasound-guided procedure that takes a device through the skin call for sterile single-use gel.6
- CDC MMWR2022
Gel that stays behind on the skin is hard to clear before the needle and gets in the way of adequate skin antisepsis.7
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Alert: Use Only Sterile Ultrasound Gel for Percutaneous Procedures. U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Healthcare-Associated Infections, May 13, 2025. cdc.gov/healthcare-associated-infections/bulletins/outbreak-ultrasound-gel.html
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Guidelines for Cleaning and Preparing External- and Internal-Use Ultrasound Transducers and Equipment Between Patients as Well as Safe Handling and Use of Ultrasound Coupling Gel. American Institute of Ultrasound in Medicine, 2025 revision. aium.org official statement
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Good infection prevention practice: using ultrasound gel. UK Health Security Agency, updated January 30, 2025. gov.uk guidance
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Outbreak of Burkholderia stabilis Infections Associated with Contaminated Nonsterile, Multiuse Ultrasound Gel — 10 States, May–September 2021. Hudson MJ, et al. MMWR 2022;71(48). doi.org/10.15585/mmwr.mm7148a3
Priced like a sterile packet. Built like a stand-off.
At $2.80 a TodoPocus pad sits inside the price range of a sterile 20 g gel packet, and it costs less than a quarter of the median Aquaflex pad.
| TodoPocus gel padØ35 × 4 mm, 50 pads | Aquaflex gel padØ9 cm × 2 cm, 6 pads | Sterile gel packet20 g, 48 packets | Bottled gel0.25 L, 12 uses of 20 g | |
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| What it is | Solid hydrogel disc | Gel stand-off pad | Single-use gel | Multi-use gel |
| Stand-off | 4 mm, fixed | 20 mm, fixed | Gel layer, set by hand | Gel layer, set by hand |
| Sterile | Sterile, single-sealed | Listed non-sterile | Sterile, single-use | Non-sterile, multi-use |
| After the scan | Lift off; nothing to wipe | Lift off | Wipe gel off the skin | Wipe gel off the skin |
| Price per use | $2.80, shipping and tax included | $12.17 median ($7.67–$49.25) | $2.32 median ($1.25–$3.33) | $0.22 median per 20 g |
Specifications.
Acoustic values at 35 °C. One-way loss through the 4 mm pad follows from its attenuation of 0.1 dB/(cm·MHz) or less.
Pad
- Material
- Clear hydrogel
- Diameter
- 35 mm
- Thickness
- 4 mm
- Sterility
- Sterile, single-sealed
- Latex
- Latex-free
- Biocompatibility
- ISO 10993 tested
- Coupling gel
- None needed
Acoustics at 35 °C
- Speed of sound
- 1520–1620 m/s
- Acoustic impedance
- 1.5–1.7 × 106 Pa·s/m
- Attenuation
- ≤ 0.1 dB/(cm·MHz)
- One-way loss, 4 mm at 7.5 MHz
- ≤ 0.3 dB
- One-way loss, 4 mm at 15 MHz
- ≤ 0.6 dB
- One-way loss, 4 mm at 24 MHz
- ≤ 0.96 dB
Box
- Pads per box
- 50
- Preço
- $140 ($2.80 per pad)
- Shipping and tax
- Incluído
- Shelf life
- 5 anos
- Fits
- Linear probes, any brand
- Devoluções
- Unopened boxes, 30 days
Fits every linear probe.
TodoPocus, Butterfly, Clarius or any other brand: the pad couples every linear probe, and one rule tells you how much of the face it covers.
A probe face up to 35 mm wide sits wholly on the pad. On a wider probe, the middle 35 mm of the face sits on the pad.
| Transdutor | Face width | On the pad |
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| TodoPocus L24, L24 Pro | 18 mm | The whole face |
| TodoPocus L14, L14 Pro, L20, L20 Pro | 25 mm | The whole face |
| TodoPocus L10SH, L10H-Guide, D3 linear head | 40 mm | The middle 35 mm |
| TodoPocus L10W | 80 mm | The middle 35 mm |
| Clarius L20 HD3 | 25 mmfield of view | The whole face |
| Clarius L7 HD3 | 38 mmfield of view | The middle 35 mm |
| Clarius L15 HD3 | 50 mmfield of view | The middle 35 mm |
| Butterfly iQ3 | 52 mmprobe width | The middle 35 mm |
| Any linear probe | Any width | The whole face up to 35 mm; the middle 35 mm beyond |
Questions at the bedside.
Scanning with the pad
Can the pad replace ultrasound gel completely?
Yes. The hydrogel forms the whole acoustic path between probe and skin. Press a pad on, set the probe on it and scan, with no gel on the skin, the pad or the probe.
Which exams is it for?
Any linear scan close to the surface: vascular access, nerve blocks, tendons and small joints, thyroid and neck, skin and nail bed, and aesthetic work on the face.
Which probes does it fit?
Every linear probe, whether it comes from TodoPocus, Butterfly, Clarius or any other brand. A probe face up to 35 mm wide sits wholly on the pad; on a wider probe, the middle 35 mm of the face sits on the pad.
Can the pad stay on during the injection?
Yes. Leave it in place for the color Doppler survey and for the injection; the needle can pass through the hydrogel into the skin below.
Does it work with color Doppler?
Yes. The probe’s weight goes onto the hydrogel instead of the skin, so the small vessels under the pad keep their shape for color Doppler. EFSUMB’s position statement on dermatologic ultrasound recommends gel pads for this reason: they keep the superficial vascular plexus uncompressed.
Can I lift the pad and put it back?
Yes. The pad grips the skin by itself, so no one has to hold it. Peel it off, move it to the next site and press it down again.
Does it follow curved areas?
Yes. The hydrogel follows the curve of the neck, the back of the wrist, a toenail or the cheek and stays in full contact.
What is left to clean after the scan?
Only the probe, with its usual wipe. Peel the pad away and the skin underneath is already clean, so antisepsis can start at once.
Box, specs and delivery
Is it sterile?
Yes. Every pad is sterile and sealed on its own, one pad per patient.
What is it made of?
Clear hydrogel. The pad is latex-free and ISO 10993 biocompatibility tested.
Why 4 mm?
Four millimeters of hydrogel raise the probe face, which moves the epidermis, the dermis and the fat beneath them into a clearer band of the image. The pad adds at most 0.96 dB of one-way loss at 24 MHz.
What are its acoustic properties?
At 35 °C: speed of sound 1520–1620 m/s, acoustic impedance 1.5–1.7 × 10⁶ Pa·s/m and attenuation of 0.1 dB/(cm·MHz) or less.
Is it the same pad used with TodoPocus FaceAtlas AI?
Yes. FaceAtlas AI facial scans use this same pad, and it works the same way on every other linear scan.
How does it compare with an Aquaflex pad?
The TodoPocus pad is Ø35 × 4 mm, sterile and single-sealed, at $2.80 per pad. Aquaflex pads measure Ø9 cm × 2 cm, and across 12 US retail listings read on 2026-11-13 they cost a median $12.17 per pad.
What does a box cost, and how long does it keep?
$140 for 50 pads, which is $2.80 per pad, with shipping and tax included and No Hidden Fees. Each box has a 5-year shelf life.
How fast does it ship, and can I return it?
Orders ship within 24 hours with free delivery to supported destinations. Unopened boxes can be returned within 30 days.