3DR Laboratories and Visage Imaging Sign Agreement for Advanced 3D Imaging and Visualization Solutions: Companies deliver thin client-enabled advanced visualization
solutions to implement efficient 3D imaging workflow
LOUISVILLE, Ky. & CARLSBAD, Calif. (Business Wire EON) October 4, 2007 --
3DR Laboratories, LLC., and Visage Imaging, Inc., a wholly owned
subsidiary of Mercury Computer Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: MRCY), signed an
agreement to provide advanced reading and post-processing services to
healthcare organizations and hospitals. 3DR Laboratories will integrate Visage Imaging’s
Visage™ CS Thin Client/Server and Visage PACS
Server into its product portfolio in order to provide internal and
remote advanced 2D and 3D capabilities and services to healthcare
enterprise customers. According to Robert L. Falk, MD, Founder and
Medical Director of 3DR Laboratories (bio at (http://www.3drinc.com/drFalk.html):
“In a time when hospitals are looking to save
money and improve care, Visage Imaging and 3DR Laboratories have created
a way to do both. Together, our combined technologies will free
hospitals and radiology centers to outsource 3D reconstructions of CT
and MRI scans while still allowing staff the ability to further
manipulate and distribute studies off of any PC platform. This approach
virtually eliminates the need for costly, onsite, ‘Fat’
workstations.” (More information available at http://www.3drinc.com/articles/fs07232007.pdf
and http://www.3drinc.com/articles/di052007.pdf.) Visage Imaging’s leading-edge visualization
solutions are capable of processing and managing the ever-increasing
amounts of 2D, 3D, and even 4D data, thus optimizing image quality and
the diagnostic workflow. The Visage CS Thin Client/Server and Visage
PACS solution features advanced tools for 2D, 3D and 4D image
interpretation, post-processing and distribution that are not bound to
specific workstations, but become available directly within the PACS
workflow anywhere in the hospital enterprise or via the Internet and WAN.
Thus medical imaging data can be accessed throughout the hospital
network and also from external clients via a secure connection. “3DR brings to the market a much-needed
service that allows healthcare enterprises that do not have the
infrastructure to roll out 3D internally to take advantage of
leading-edge technology and improve clinical care using remote
collaboration and services,” said Marcelo
Lima, President of Visage Imaging. “This
unique approach opens significant opportunities to capitalize on the
ever-increasing amount of data being processed.” 3DR Laboratories – INTELLIGENT Outsourcing
Solutions 3DR Laboratories (www.3drinc.com)
is a medical imaging service company providing advanced image processing
on an outsourced basis. This allows customer hospitals and imaging
centers to 1) better utilize technologist and physician time, 2)
increase patient throughput and revenue, 3) significantly reduce capital
expenditures, 4) increase referring physician loyalty to drive referrals
through leading edge services, and 5) improve imaging quality and
patient care. Now, utilizing the Mercury Visage product line, 3DR
Laboratories provides outsourced 3D post-processing solutions on a fully
functioning thin client platform workstation from any PC with an
Internet connection (more financial information at http://www.3drinc.com/impact.html). Visage Imaging, Inc. – Visioneering
Science for Life Visage Imaging, Inc. (www.visageimaging.com)designs
and engineers clinical products that present our customers with the
ability to overcome demanding market challenges and improve diagnostic
results with accuracy and expedience. As a wholly owned subsidiary of
Mercury Computer Systems, Inc., we incorporate Mercury’s
20 years of technical expertise and deep knowledge of the science behind
diagnostic applications into our practice. We leverage this experience
to push the boundaries of what is possible within our domain. Through collaborative learning, we have built a nimble, creative
organization: one that is first to market with innovative 3D clinical
applications, and offers best-in-class 3D products that are unique,
reliable, and help our customers accelerate their own market innovation
and clinical benefit. Forward-Looking Safe Harbor Statement This press release contains certain forward-looking statements, as that
term is defined in the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995,
including those relating to the Visage product line and 3D to the Core
solutions. You can identify these statements by our use of the words “may,”
“will,” “should,”
“plans,” “expects,”
“anticipates,” “continue,”
“estimate,” “project,”
“intend,” and
similar expressions. These forward-looking statements involve risks and
uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from
those projected or anticipated. Such risks and uncertainties include,
but are not limited to, general economic and business conditions,
including unforeseen weakness in the Mercury’s
markets, effects of continued geo-political unrest and regional
conflicts, competition, changes in technology and methods of marketing,
delays in completing engineering and manufacturing programs, changes in
customer order patterns, changes in product mix, continued success in
technological advances and delivering technological innovations,
continued funding of defense programs, the timing of such funding,
changes in the U.S. Government’s
interpretation of federal procurement rules and regulations, market
acceptance of the Mercury's products, shortages in components,
production delays due to performance quality issues with outsourced
components, inability to fully realize the expected benefits from
acquisitions or delays in realizing such benefits, challenges in
integrating acquired businesses and achieving anticipated synergies, and
difficulties in retaining key customers. These risks and uncertainties
also include such additional risk factors as are discussed in the
Mercury's recent filings with the U.S. Securities and Exchange
Commission, including its Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year
ended June 30, 2007. The Company cautions readers not to place undue
reliance upon any such forward-looking statements, which speak only as
of the date made. The Company undertakes no obligation to update any
forward-looking statement to reflect events or circumstances after the
date on which such statement is made. Visage and Visage Imaging are trademarks of Mercury Computer Systems,
Inc. Other product and company names mentioned may be trademarks and/or
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