CHICAGO (December 1, 1996) - Imation Corp. (NYSE:IMN) has added the Imation™ Image Acquisition Manager Plus to its growing line of products and services designed to link medical imaging devices to one another or into an image management network. The Imation Image Acquisition Manager Plus is highlighted at this year's Radiological Society of North America conference here.

The Imation Image Acquisition Manager Plus converts images captured from legacy CT, MR and other modalities into DICOM protocol. This enables users to send DICOM images across a network to remote locations for viewing or printing to DICOM-compatible Imation laser imagers.

"Imation has vast experience in interfacing its world-leading laser imagers to these modalities," said Jim Rose, market development supervisor, Imation Medical Imaging. "We've applied that interface experience in developing the Image Acquisition Manager Plus."

With its 32 megabyte RAM and scaleability to higher memory, the Imation Image Acquisition Manager Plus delivers the high throughput necessary to eliminate productivity bottlenecks. It features a DICOM store option that offers an upgrade path to safeguard the radiology department's investment in current equipment while it prepares to migrate to a soft-copy viewing environment.

Imation Focuses on Network Solutions

Imation also announced a new concentrated focus on helping radiology departments find practical imaging network solutions, no matter where they are along their migration path toward Picture Archiving Communications Systems (PACS).

"Whether it's point-to-point links in a non-network setting, or implementing a full-scale PACS, we now offer more and better technical products and solutions," said Rose.

In addition to the new Image Acquisition Manager Plus, Imation began shipping its Imation™ DryView™ 8300 Laser Imager in November. This desktop system provides an ideal 8" x 10" solution for network or remote location hard-copy printing for ultrasound, nuclear medicine and C-arm applications.

Earlier in 1996, Imation introduced the 3M™ DICOM Print Server by Imation™ to link its wet and dry laser imagers to printer networks. The company also offers the 3M™ Image Acquisition Manager by Imation™, which converts ultrasound and C-arm images to DICOM protocol for sending across a network to print or store.

Alliances Strengthened

Imation has also strengthened its alliance with Cemax-Icon, Inc., a medical imaging software manufacturing company in Fremont, Cal. The company designs and manufactures medical image management solutions, as well as networking and image processing software.

Imation is integrating its laser imagers and interface devices with Cemax-Icon's software, image viewing and PACS products and expertise to bring network solutions to radiology departments.

"Imation is also a world's leader in data storage products and expertise. Combining that expertise with our understanding of medical imaging means we can offer radiology departments products and network solutions for digital archiving," Rose said.

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