Advancedimagingpro.com Launches - Showcasing Promising New Imaging Technologies; 2005 Imaging Solutions of the Year Award Winners Announced.

MELVILLE, N.Y. -- Advancedimagingpro.com, promising to be the world's top site for the latest in electronic imaging news, products and solutions, launched during Photonics West 2005 amid interest from scientists, engineers and other professionals interested in optics, photonics and instrumentation engineering. The website's comprehensive range of new products and services feature exclusive coverage of Advanced Imaging magazine's Imaging Solutions of the Year Awards.

Visitors to the site are currently met by a ferocious, digitally replicated T Rex dinosaur from the Carnegie Museum of Natural History developed by Metrology experts from MAGLEV, Inc., Leica Geosystems and MetricVision.

"The technology laser scans the object and creates a 3-D model that provides accuracy of up to 250 microns," says Advanced Imaging Editor-in-Chief Larry Adams. "The 3-D digital replica then allows the scientists to initiate several configurations, choose the most appealing and then design the required support for the actual structure."

MAGLEV and four other winners are the centerpiece in the launch of one of the Internet's most talked about sites.

"Advancedimagingpro.com attracted a great deal of interest at the show," says Advanced Imaging Publisher Dave Brambert. "Hours were spent by attendees at the Advanced Imaging trade show booth navigating through the site on specially designated computers. The strongest appeal was the ability for users to access new imaging technologies that are updated daily and available 24 hours a day at Advancedimagingpro.com."

Advancedimagingpro.com is a joint effort between business-to-business media leader Cygnus Business Media's Interactive and Publishing divisions. The company's publication Advanced Imaging (AI) magazine is already a leading technology magazine that successfully focuses on the field of imaging and its influence on the commercial, industrial, scientific, medical, security and military industries. Publisher Dave Brambert and Editor-in-Chief Larry Adams will participate in the production and editorial direction of the site working alongside Cygnus Interactive's Director of Content Jeff Copeland and Advancedimagingpro.com Site Manager Dallas Shelby.

"A successful website is managed by a staff that understands the online community's challenges and issues," says Cygnus Interactive Vice President Dave Iannone. "Working together allows us to garner the experience from industry experts like Dave and Larry and blending their knowledge with interactive specialists' tools and software."

Advanced Imaging magazine has gained a reputation for its insightful stories, often taking on the scientific establishment, challenging theories and findings. Its 2005 Imaging Solutions of the Year Awards are the industry's annual competition that asks developers, vendors, integrators, VARs, public relations firms and end-users to nominate companies whose solutions they feel merit special industry attention for their practical handling of digital imaging and image processing challenges.

Advancedimagingpro.com also adds online polls, a user forum and a Q & A section propagated by the online community which is expected to provide added insight into trends, challenges and issues of concern for this important scientific group. Throughout 2005, the site will also devote editorial resources to high-growth areas such as software, smart cameras, and the standards that drive the industry and set the stage for competitive differentiation.

Other Imaging Solutions of the Year winners include Mikron's Thermal Imaging Division for its uses of thermal imaging cameras, dedicated PCs and proprietary software in the design and installation of a turnkey critical vessel remote monitoring system; L-3/Thermal-Eye in using thermal cameras to find two missing children; the Burnham Institute for their confocal microscope and image analysis software which creates a 3-D map of activity between cells; and Sandia National Laboratories, which developed a Z-beamlet laser from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratories as well as various cameras, lenses and translation stages. In-depth case studies and analysis are all available online at Advancedimagingpro.com.

In addition to Advancedimagingpro.com, the winning solutions and the runners-up are covered in Advanced Imaging's January issue.

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