BURBANK, Calif., April 5, 2006 (PRIMEZONE) -- Imaging3(tm), Inc., (OTCBB:IMGG) today provided additional details of its breakthrough medical imaging technology which produces real-time three dimensional images of nearly any part of the human body. The company's technology is a quantum leap beyond the current three-dimensional imaging applications on the market today, and it is ushering in a radical shift in imaging's role in medical care.
Building on advances coming out of the video gaming sector, Imaging3's Dominion(r) product is pushing the speed at which the medical community embraces three-d visualization. By providing real-time three-dimensional medical imaging, Imaging3's Dominion will re-define the way patients are treated.
Current 3D images are created by utilizing images generated by CT (computerized tomography) and MRI (magnetic resonance imaging) technologies. CT is an x-ray based technology which scans the body in "slices" -- like a loaf of bread -- and then uses expensive computer workstations and software programs to reassemble the individual "slices", creating three-dimensional images. MRI uses powerful magnetic fields to oscillate the body's cells and then read their respective frequency response. These frequency responses are then reassembled by software running on computer workstations which are in turn displayed in three-dimensional format on a computer screen for viewing by the medical team.
While accurate, both CT and MRI take many minutes -- up to 20 or 30 minutes -- to be usable by the patient's medical care providers. This is a distinct disadvantage in an emergency medical trauma situation.
Ushering in a strategic shift in the role of imaging -- from diagnosis to intervention
Imaging3's technology, based on low-dose fluoroscopy, is able to deliver detailed 3D imaging instantaneously to the medical team, thereby allowing it to be used to direct surgical and other medical procedures in real time. This ability to provide three-dimensional images in real time is the powerful differentiation between Imaging3's technology and other devices because it creates a fundamental shift in the role of imaging in the medical community. Imaging3's ability to provide three-dimensions in real time shifts the role of medical imaging from diagnosis to intervention.
This provides a physician the capability to more accurately guide catheters, stents, pain management injections, orthopedic implants, pace maker implants, electro-stimulators, cancer treatment, foreign body removal, spinal implants -- as well as any invasive device or procedure. By having access to more detailed information, in three dimensions, delivered in real time, the physician will be able to perform procedures with greater accuracy and speed.
As much as the technological advances in software, it is Dominion's form factor that is also driving this exciting shift in the role of medical imaging, and allowing it to leapfrog over the inherent disadvantages of CT and MRI. CT and MRI are extremely large in size and weight, immobile, expensive and require a fixed room with special shielding and mounting requirements. Their "bore holes" (the space in which the patient is placed to be imaged) are claustrophobically small and the "gantry" (the structure upon which the device operates) is too wide to provide direct access to the patient.
Imaging3's Dominion device is sized to be able to roll through a standard hospital room doorway, and it utilizes regular hospital wall power so that a separate room or facility is not required. Its slim, "flat panel detector" imaging head allows surgeons complete and unfettered access to the patient's entire body so that it can be used in a more proactive fashion during surgery.
"These advances in the technology, combined with the cost savings that they will generate, bode well for our company's growth," said Dean Janes, Imaging3's CEO. "We are able to provide more flexibility and state of the art imaging capabilities that advance the state of medical care into this new millennium. Our technology will change the face of medical imaging similar to that of CT and MRI when they first entered the medical community."
About Imaging3
Imaging3, Inc., founded in 1993, is a leading provider of advanced technology medical imaging devices. The Company has developed a breakthrough medical imaging device that produces 3D medical diagnostic images of virtually any part of the human body in real-time. Because these 3D images are instantly constructed in real-time, they can be used for any current or new medical procedures in which multiple frames of reference are required to perform medical procedures on or in the human body. Visit the company's website at www.imaging3.com
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