Diagnosoft(R) Secures $4 Million in Financing and Appoints a New Preside...( MORRISVILLE N.C. and PALO ALTO Ca...),Health

MORRISVILLE, N.C. and PALO ALTO, Calif., Jan. 29 /PRNewswire/ -- Diagnosoft, Inc., an innovator in magnetic resonance (MR) image analysis software that assists in diagnosis, staging and therapeutic monitoring of cardiovascular disease, has announced the closing of $4 million in Series B financing led by Technology Development Fund (TDF) of Cairo, Egypt. The company intends to use the new capital to support further market expansion of Diagnosoft(R) HARP(TM), Diagnosoft(R) PLUS, and Diagnosoft(R) SENC. The capital infusion will also serve to further the development of other innovative MR image analysis technologies designed to increase physician productivity and accuracy, improve patient outcomes, and enhance research and drug development advances.

"When cardiologists and radiologists can make a decision about the condition of a patient's heart based on quantitative data obtained from cardiac MRI analysis, rather than just 'eyeballing' images," said Diagnosoft Co-Founder Dr. Matthias Stuber, "they can come to a faster conclusion that's substantiated, not subjective. When diagnosis and treatment is supported by the numerical data our software provides, it's stronger from a legal standpoint as well."

According to Dr. Jerry Prince, Diagnosoft co-founder and colleague of Dr. Stuber at Johns Hopkins University, "There are many techniques for analyzing the left ventricle of the heart -- ECHO, nuclear medicine, CT, and so -- but we are focused on the emerging technology of MRI for the cardiac market. We are kind of a one-stop shop for innovative analysis of the four magnetic resonance imaging techniques -- CINE, perfusion, delayed enhancement or viability, and function or strain. Diagnosoft is the only company directly looking at function, to see if the heart muscle is contracting properly; consequently, we are the only ones who can put all four imaging techniques together, and present it to the
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