PRESS RELEASE

21 November 1999

Image Enhancement System, Inc. announces that 500 MRI sites have purchased the IES system.  Image Enhancement System specializes in computer hardware and software solutions to common problems in medical imaging centers, such as the need for enhancement of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) images, digital storage of medical data, and digital conversion of medical data to DICOM (Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine Standard) conformant formats.  

IES uses its own proprietary SCSI target technology to digitally connect to the host medical device.  This proprietary technology allows IES to implement DICOM conversion modules for any medical device that has a SCSI  (small computer system interface) peripheral device on the bus.  Since almost every medical imaging device currently in use throughout the world has a SCSI bus, the possibilities are unlimited.  An additional benefit of IES' proprietary technology is that no software needs to be loaded onto the host medical device.   Therefore, connection of the IES DICOM to a medical imaging device is extremely easy, and extremely reliable, as well as no potential software compatibility problems. DICOM/teleradiology is one of the most rapidly expanding technologies in the medical marketplace.   The company plans to capture 20% of the MRI DICOM market within the next four years.

 Image Enhancement System Inc., is the largest independent hardware/software upgrader of MRI systems.  IES currently has products for MRIs manufactured by Hitachi Medical Systems America, General Electric Medical Systems, Toshiba America MRI, and Shimadzu.  The goal of IES is to extend its technology in the medical imaging marketplace to computed Tomography (CT), nuclear medicine, digital x-ray and ultrasound.

 IES founder and president, Peter Rothschild, M.D. has over ten years experience with open MRI and has recently finished the first open MRI textbook.  This book, Open MRI, is scheduled to be released by Lippincott Williams and Wilkins in December 1999.