Bodyscan Imaging LLC Announces Alliance With Harbor-UCLA Medical Center.

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IRVINE, Calif.--(BW HealthWire)--July 11, 2001

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BodyScan Imaging LLC, owner and operator of diagnostic imaging centers utilizing the Imatron Electron Beam Tomography (EBT) scanner for the early and non-invasive detection of coronary artery disease, colon cancer, lung disease, spine/joint scanning, osteoporosis screening and other frequently occurring medical conditions, announced that it has partnered with Harbor-UCLA Medical Center in Torrance, California to provide image evaluation and interpretation for its BodyScan Imaging centers located in Kansas City and Scottsdale.

Imatron's EBT scanner is intended to function as a non-invasive diagnostic x-ray system to produce two- and three-dimensional images of human anatomical cavities, using cross-sectional images reconstructed from x-ray transmission data from the same axial plane taken at different angles. The Imatron EBT scanner permits radiologic visualization of such cavities or vessels during or after injection of or filling with a contrast medium or inflation with gases such as air or carbon dioxide. In addition, the Imatron EBT scanner is specifically intended and cleared to perform as a diagnostic x-ray system permitting unique radiologic visualizations of the heart, arteries, lung and colon.

Recognizing the need for safe, low cost, non-invasive testing, particularly for heart, lung disease, and cancer, the Management of BodyScan Imaging LLC is committed to establishing state-of-the-art imaging centers throughout the nation that offer diagnostic excellence, optimum efficiency, and maximum comfort.

Matthew Budoff, MD, Assistant Professor of Medicine, UCLA School of Medicine, stated, "We are very enthusiastic about the alliance between Harbor-UCLA and BodyScan Imaging. This relationship will take diagnostic imaging to a new level, allowing for quality assurance and demonstrating to the patients that the highest level of expertise will be applied to the interpretation of these images. We will apply the same careful analysis of the images as we do for all of our National Institutes of Health (NIH) studies. This partnership will allow for patients in an outpatient, free-standing clinic to have scientists with extensive experience evaluating and interpreting their images."

Anthony Sciuto, Chief Operating Officer and General Manager, stated, "We are pleased and enthusiastic about BodyScan Imaging's alliance with Dr. Matthew Budoff and Harbor-UCLA. We look forward to working with the medical professionals at Harbor-UCLA to provide our patients with the highest level and quality of image analysis. Our goal is to establish a strong partnership in an effort to bring BodyScan Imaging patients the combined benefits of the Imatron Ultrafast EBT scanner and the interpretation expertise offered by Harbor-UCLA that will be applied to the images acquired from both our present centers in Kansas City and Scottsdale and our future centers in Las Vegas, Tampa and Philadelphia."

For additional information about BodyScan Imaging LLC, visit the company's web site at www.bodyscanimaging.com.

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Twenty years ago, the world's public health officials overcame the scourge of smallpox. Today, health organizations, governments, and the pharmaceutical industry battle measles-mumps- rubella, river blindness, asthma, and a host of other diseases for which prevention and therapy are possible. Future decades hold real promise for further advances against heart disease, HIV/AIDS and cancer.

We all share the same objective: Together, we seek to bring the best of medicine to the widest possible number of people. Our progress in medicine, education, and health infrastructure over the past half-century has been remarkable. But our very progress underscores the challenge yet ahead. Millions around the world still suffer from preventable disease. BodyScan Imaging LLC strives to build partnerships to enhance patient care, improve health infrastructure and to provide evidence and research to encourage appropriate allocation of resources to health care. Above all, we strive to act ethically, with the needs of patients always in mind. This is BodyScan's vision of our role in the industry in world health and human development. We have the willingness to share our expertise and to participate in sustainable solutions, and we look forward to working with you as partners -- not only to add years to life, but life to years.

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