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Mirada Medical’s New Case Viewer Program Saves Clinicians Preparation Time and Dramatically Enhances Presentations

Chicago, IL, November 30, 2009 - Mirada Medical (Oxford, UK) is distributing free copies of their new Casebook case viewer program this week to clinicians at the annual Radiological Society of North America meeting being held this week in Chicago. Casebook has been developed by Mirada as a plug-in to Microsoft® PowerPoint®, which is regarded as the de facto standard presentation software worldwide. Casebook will also be available to download free from the Mirada-Medical website www.mirada-casebook.com by the end of 2009.

Mirada’s Casebook is the world’s first easy to use, fully interactive, completely free and professionally developed medical image and fusion image viewer. Casebook makes presenting clinical cases a breeze and saves clinicians time in preparing their cases for teaching and symposiums. Casebook features include interactive windowing, zoom, transparency and slice navigation, triangulated MPR views, bookmarks and any modality combination fused views. Mirada has taken its extensive imaging know-how and built it into a simple, fast and intuitive case viewer for the world’s most widely used presentation application. And, then they made it available free!

“Preparing cases for presentation has typically been a laborious task for clinicians”, stated
Hugh Bettesworth, CEO of Mirada-Medical. “Our new Casebook product takes the hassle out
of preparation in that clinicians can now load complete image sets and present them with bookmarks or dynamically using tools they are familiar with. It makes the presentation of cases the exact same process that clinicians went through when they reported the case.”

“I’ve had the opportunity to use this product recently and have found it to be very useful for presenting cases at tumor board, doing resident case review conferences, as well as using it for a richer experience in my lectures” stated Dr. Todd Blodgett, radiologist from the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center.

Casebook is strictly a presentation tool and not a medical devise. As such, it is not intended, by design, marketing or function to be used for diagnostic purposes.

Mirada Medical licenses multi-modal deformable image registration technology to Varian Medical Systems

Oxford 12th November 2009 - Mirada Medical (Oxford, UK) has contracted with Varian Medical Systems (Palo Alto, CA) for the supply of multi-modality image registration technologies. Under the agreement, Mirada will provide an embedded registration engine that Varian can build into its product offerings. The agreement also allows for future collaborative product development between the two companies.

Mirada has been a leader in medical image registration technology since 2001, and continues to expend considerable research and development in this area. Image registration forms the basis of numerous applications in radiology and radiation therapy such as disease response analysis, comparison of pathology before and after treatment, adaptive radiation therapy, subtraction imaging, as based segmentation and patient motion correction. Multi-modal deformable image registration allows clinicians to superimpose different types of images onto the CT image used in radiotherapy treatment planning, to improve the precision with which the tumor extent can be delineated.

"Multi-modal image registration is an important enabler for future advances in treatment planning and adaptive therapy,” said Corey Zankowski, senior director of product management at Varian. “Mirada has a history of providing reliable image registration technology for radiology applications. I am confident that Mirada's proven image registration technology will help Varian accelerate the development of powerful new clinical capabilities for our customers."

Mirada’s Chief Executive, Hugh Bettesworth said, “Mirada’s commitment is to make the most advanced technologies available to the widest possible clinical user base. If Varian’s customers can access our registration engine directly from their Eclipse workstations, then we will have successfully delivered access to the most advanced technologies in a time saving and convenient way.”

Mirada Medical provides enterprise solution for Willis Knighton hospitals

Shreveport, LA, November 9, 2009 - Willis Knighton Health System, with hospitals in Shreveport and Bossier City, LA has selected Mirada Medical (Oxford, UK) to provide an enterprise wide workflow solution to support more efficient use of PET/CT imaging of cancer patients and image fusion in radiation treatment.

The Mirada technology has been installed, and combines both the latest PACS integrated applications and remote reading locations throughout the Willis Knighton system. “We needed a solution which combined the highest quality clinical reading capabilities with enterprise wide access,” explained Willis Knighton Administrative Director, Joyce Hooper. “Our reading clinicians find the Mirada software powerful and intuitive, and the ability to integrate advanced applications directly onto our Sectra PACS will generate significant cost savings compared with traditional workstation based solutions”.

Increased use of PET/CT imaging for cancer follows recent changes in reimbursement policy in the USA, which recognize the advantages this type of imaging has for diagnosing and assessing many forms of cancer.  

Mirada to show at RSNA 2009

Mirada Medical will attend the Radiological Society of North America annual event in Chicago, IL. The company will showcase its latest products which reduce costs whilst optimising the most accurate and consistent reporting and quantitative knowledge share in the multi-modal diagnosis and treatement of cancer.

Mirada will also demonstrate their latest image registration technologies which may be accessed both from Mirada's dedicated fusion applications, or, new for 2009, as an IHE compliant "black box" software library.

Mirada will be located on booth #7100 at the front of the north hall.   

Kadir Joins Mirada Medical

Mirada Medical (Oxford, UK) announces the appointment of Dr Timor Kadir as Chief Science and Technology Officer. Kadir brings with him a decade of experience in the research and development of clinical applications which combine information from multiple sources and imaging modalities.

Mirada’s Chief Executive, Hugh Bettesworth said, “I am delighted to welcome Dr Kadir. Mirada believes that innovation and experience must be combined to solve the most important clinical problems. Dr Kadir has a proven track record in leading the technological development of today’s foremost imaging software solutions.”

Kadir obtained his PhD from Oxford University’s renowned medical vision lab under the supervision of Mirada’s founder and current director Professor Sir Michael Brady. Kadir’s  most recent work was in the development of leading edge PET/CT oncology applications for distribution with the latest high definition PET/CT scanners.

Mirada installed in 18 UK hospitals

Mirada Medical have partnered with Alliance Medical Ltd to provide PET/CT reading software to eighteen sites across the North of England. Supplied as part of the NHS PET scanning program, the solution allows readers as far apart as Newcastle, Liverpool and Stoke-on-Trent to share a single diagnostic workflow and, when necessary, case information as well. This results in the highest quality of clinical analysis being combined with productivty improvements and cost savings.