TeraRecon Showcases Advanced Decision Support and Visualization With AQi at HIMSS 2009

SAN MATEO, CA, Apr 07 (MARKET WIRE) --
TeraRecon, Inc. (www.terarecon.com), a leader in advanced visualization
and decision support solutions for medical imaging, today announced that
it will showcase the newly released Aquarius iNtuitionTM ("AQi") software
version 4.4 at the 2009 annual conference and exhibition of the
Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) at
McCormick Place in Chicago, Illinois on April 4-8, 2009.

HIMSS is focused on medical informatics and the application of information
technology (IT) to healthcare. Some of the most advanced IT being applied
to modern healthcare relates the visualization, management and processing
of data acquired from various scanning modalities such as computed
tomography (CT) and magnetic resonance (MR). Such data contain a wealth of
diagnostic information that can also be used for the staging of disease,
and planning or follow-up of therapy. However, modern modalities obtain
such voluminous amounts of data that interpretation of the raw data by a
physician alone may not obtain the maximum benefit of the imaging
examination. Hence, TeraRecon has developed solutions to visualize and
automatically analyze such data and provide rich decision-support tools
for interpreting physicians. TeraRecon is a leading provider of such
solutions, in the form of the Aquarius iNtuition suite of client-server
enterprise advanced visualization software.

Aquarius iNtuition features technology to automatically pre-process
volumetric scans from CT, MR and other modalities, immediately upon
acquisition. Scans can be automatically filtered to highlight the
locations of objects of a certain shape, which may help physicians to
more quickly identify lesions such as lung nodules or colon polyps. Once
such a finding has been identified, Aquarius iNtuition offers tools to
quantify the size of the finding, and to track its progression over time.
Similarly, Aquarius iNtuition will automatically analyze acquired scan
data to identify the type of scan, and the location of certain anatomical
features, such as the heart, the main chambers of the heart, and even the
coronary arteries providing blood supply to the heart muscle. Such
automated anatomy labeling enables Aquarius iNtuition to deliver clinical
workflow protocols that are driven by the systems' prior knowledge of the
anatomy. Aquarius iNtuition provides a comprehensive suite of such
analysis protocols and an application framework upon which research for
new techniques can be developed. As new automated algorithms are
developed, they can even be re-applied to historical imaging data to
extract even more latent information, to facilitate physicians'
pro-active preventive care strategies.

TeraRecon president and CEO Robert Taylor, Ph.D said, "The future of
medicine will surely involve extensive reliance on advanced decision
support technology to enable speedier, more accurate, and more
cost-effective patient management. The technology that TeraRecon has
developed and continues to develop makes it possible to manage a
presenting patient through prompt and accurate diagnosis, to therapy
planning and follow-up, with the benefit of our advanced image processing
technology, which can offer an ever-increasing level of base confidence
to an attending physician. We believe this will ultimately translate to
more effective patient care at a lower cost, which is a clear imperative
for providers of medicine today."

In addition to such automated visualization and decision support
technology, Aquarius iNtuition also features a system architecture
designed to scale from a small imaging operation to a large multi-site
enterprise. iNtuition technology is client-server in nature, meaning that
the clinical interface can be deployed to any enterprise PC and readily
integrated with other healthcare information systems. Yet, the power of
the Aquarius server enables capabilities that would previously only have
been available on a dedicated, expensive standalone workstation that does
not integrate well with medical informatics workflow at all.

Aquarius iNtuition offers advanced, sophisticated client software, the
"AQi Client," for use by expert interpreting physicians, and a simple,
browser-based client "AquariusWEB" which can be launched from a link in an
e-mail, or embedded in an Electronic Medical Record or report, without
requiring any ActiveX control or similar browser plug-in technology. As an
example, real-time, live 3D image review on an iPhone is made possible by
the AquariusWEB solution.

The iNtuition solution includes an Enterprise-class server-side
architecture with scalable components taking care of image routing,
storage, pre-processing and live 3D rendering, with support for redundancy
and interoperability with other healthcare information systems.

The solution is offered under the flexible iNtuition UNLIMITED purchasing
program, whereby an unlimited software license may be purchased to support
a given number of concurrent users, a given annual volume of studies, or a
given capacity of data at any one time. The solution may be acquired as a
capital purchase, or on a rental / subscription basis as an operational
expense. Unlimited hardware can be deployed by a customer at multiple
locations to manage virtually any enterprise structure, with unlimited
software instances available under the iNtuition UNLIMITED program,
providing the contracted limits of users, studies or data are observed at
any given time.

Dr Taylor continued: "iNtuition is an enterprise-class solution offered
under an enterprise-friendly purchasing program, iNtuition UNLIMITED. We
are convinced that within a short period of time, such advanced decision
support and visualization will become the standard of care and an integral
part of all enterprise health information management systems, with
concomitant improvements in the quality, cost and efficiency of care.
TeraRecon is committed to furthering this goal as rapidly as possible."

About TeraRecon, Inc. (www.terarecon.com)

TeraRecon Inc., a leader in advanced image processing and 3D visualization
techniques, provides advanced imaging systems for medical and other
visualization applications based on its unique and patented image
processing technologies. A four-time winner of Frost and Sullivan awards,
the company has developed a leading portfolio of products that advance the
performance, quality, functionality, and integration of image processing
and 3D visualization systems. Founded in 1997, TeraRecon has developed a
unique family of powerful processors that are used in its real-time,
enterprise-wide image processing solutions. TeraRecon is a privately held
company with headquarters in San Mateo, CA, European headquarters in
Frankfurt, Germany, and branch offices in Concord, MA; Tokyo, Japan and
Osaka, Japan.

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