TeraRecon Introduces the Personal Digital Light Box for AquariusNET at SCAR '02.

Business Editors/Health and Medical Writers

SAN MATEO, Calif.--(BW HealthWire)--May 2, 2002

TeraRecon Inc. (www.terarecon.com) today announced a revolutionary new display called the "Personal Digital Light Box" (PDLB) at the Society

for Computer Applications in Radiology (SCAR) exhibition in Cleveland, OH. Conceived by TeraRecon's CEO, radiologist Motoaki Saito, M.D., the PDLB consists of multiple ultra-thin 15-inch LCD panels, each with 3 million pixels, all driven by a single PC platform. The PDLB may be configured with 2, 4, or 8 panels, equating to 6 million, 12 million and 24 million pixels of color resolution respectively. PDLB technology offers crisp, bright, and high-resolution display for 2D and 3D CT or MR softcopy diagnostic review.

The Personal Digital Light Box is the latest innovative solution offered by TeraRecon as a display option for its AquariusNET 3D enterprise server. AquariusNET streams 2D and 3D to multiple networked thin clients PCs concurrently across the healthcare enterprise. The PDLB technology is the realization of a long awaited need by radiologists and clinicians for no-compromise viewing on their personal desktops.

"AquariusNET is a network processor for medical imaging which uses streaming technology to provide high-performance softcopy review with integrated 3D capability. As such, it represents a powerful step forward in terms of efficient distribution of the huge datasets produced by today's imaging modalities, combined with the advanced review tools necessary to efficiently perform diagnostic reading of these studies with potentially thousands of images," said Robert Taylor, Ph.D., TeraRecon's COO. "Due to its intelligent design, the system also provides for efficient delivery of interactive reports to clinicians with live, embedded images, enriching radiology's end product considerably. With the advent of the PDLB, AquariusNET can now efficiently and cost-effectively bring this advanced image processing capability to every radiologist's desk, or to any light-box site in today's healthcare enterprise. We see the PDLB as the first digital equivalent to the light box which really provides a similar experience in terms of form-factor and simultaneous display of multiple images. Combined with AquariusNET, it holds great promise for extending the reach of digital image management, and represents the most recent milestone in TeraRecon's mission to break down conventional barriers to productivity."