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WOBURN, Mass., April 14 /PRNewswire/ -- VisEn Medical, Inc., a leader in fluorescence in vivo imaging, today announced the commercial launch of its FMT 2500 small animal imaging system. The FMT 2500 is based on VisEn's proprietary Fluorescence Molecular Tomography (FMT(TM)) technology platform, and combined with VisEn's portfolio of fluorescence in vivo imaging agents, enables researchers to rapidly and easily generate quantitative data on key disease biologies and therapeutic response profiles in animal research models. The FMT 2500 launch was announced at the 2008 annual meeting of the American Association for Cancer Research. VisEn has already placed several beta units with leading academic and pharmaceutical customers in the United States and in Europe, and expects to begin commercial deliveries this quarter.

"The key feature of the FMT 2500 is the FMT(TM) technology platform that enables researchers to generate Quantitative Tomographic data in vivo, unlike any other fluorescence imaging technology platform or system on the market," said Kirtland Poss, President and Chief Executive Officer of VisEn Medical. "Further, due to some breakthrough advances in the system design and FMT software algorithms, this new system generates unmatched data performance, without the need for any index matching fluid. With these performance advances and additional product design improvements, this new system brings the well-validated power of the FMT technology platform to the broader research markets."

The FMT technology platform enables Quantitative Tomographic in vivo data by using three key steps: data generation, data normalization, and fluorescence tomographic reconstruction. The system offers multiplexed imaging capabilities so users can measure, monitor and compare multiple in vivo biologic targets, pathways or processes simultaneously
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