Medicsight Welcomes U.S. Initiative to Reimburse CT Colonography for Early Detection of Colorec... (thedetection and analysis of disease. Th...)

Medicsight Welcomes U.S. Initiative to Reimburse CT Colonography for Early Detection of Colorectal Cancer

Date:12/21/2007

the detection and analysis of disease. This allows clinical end users to perform either a 'second read', where CAD findings are displayed to the user after completion of an initial review of the CT scan data, or a 'concurrent read' where CAD findings are displayed during the user's initial review of the original CT scan images.

Since inception, Medicsight has developed close and lasting relationships with some of the world's foremost clinicians in product related areas. This provides the Company with a wealth of clinical expertise and dedicated clinical research to support ongoing product development. Medicsight also collaborates with a number of leading academic institutions and clinical research programmes worldwide to develop the Company's comprehensive database of population diverse verified patient CT scan data, thus allowing Medicsight's products to be validated to the highest possible standards.

About CTC and virtual colonoscopy

CTC (also known as virtual colonoscopy) is a medical imaging procedure that uses x-rays and computers to produce two- and three-dimensional images of the colon. The CTC exam is far less invasive than traditional methods used to detect colon and bowel diseases and patients do not require sedation. Recent scientific literature suggests that virtual colonoscopy, as a front-line screening method, is a cost-effective complement to the traditional optical colonoscopy that is still required to remove dangerous colon polyps when they are detected.

National US Computerised Tomography (CT) Colonography Trial

(ACRIN study 6664)

The preliminary results of the National US Computerised Tomography (CT) Colonography Trial (ACRIN study 6664), released on 28 September, demonstrated convincingly that CT colonography is at least as sensitive and specific as conventional optical colonoscopy in detecting adenomas of 1 cm diameter or larger. A few days later another major study was published in the prestigious New
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