Date:2/9/2010

designed to facilitate endovascular procedures, enhance the diagnosis of vascular and structural heart disease and guide optimal therapies. The company's intravascular ultrasound (IVUS) product line includes ultrasound consoles that can be integrated directly into virtually any modern cath lab. Volcano IVUS offers unique features, including both single-use digital and rotational IVUS imaging catheters, and advanced functionality options, such as VH® IVUS tissue characterization and ChromaFlo®. Volcano also provides functional measurement (FM) consoles and single-use pressure and flow guide wires and is developing a line of ultra-high resolution Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) systems and catheters. Currently, more than 4,700 Volcano IVUS and FM systems are installed worldwide, and more than half of Volcano's revenues are derived from outside the United States. Volcano's wholly-owned subsidiary, Axsun Technologies, develops and manufactures optical monitors, lasers and optical engines used in telecommunications, medical imaging, spectroscopy and other industrial applications. For more information, visit the company's website at www.volcanocorp.com.

About Lumen Biomedical

Since being founded in July 2003, Lumen Biomedical's primary goal has been to create unique interventional devices that outperform existing technologies and can be used in virtually any anatomical area. With this goal in mind, the company has dedicated its efforts to developing and commercializing products for embolic protection and thrombus removal throughout the body. The company believes that the FiberNet® Embolic Protection System, which received FDA clearance in '/>"/>

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