CTI Medical Diagnostic Systems.

FAIRFAX, Va.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 23, 1997--

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Since October 1995, TRW (NYSE:TRW) has collaborated with Computerized Thermal Imaging, Inc. (CTI), stock symbol OTCBB: COII, in pursuing business opportunities in the healthcare field in China, Thailand, and the United States. During that time, TRW's focus has been on developing advanced image processing techniques for identifying and classifying physiological anomalies in the body's soft tissues.

In addition to these developmental efforts, TRW installed a CTI(TM) system in Orchard Hospital, Bangkok, Thailand, in 1996 and has conducted information technology briefings to the Tri-Sun Medical Corporation-China. China's Ministry of Health formed Tri-Sun more than two years ago to facilitate the development of the country's Golden Health Program.

Now, under an expanded agreement, TRW and CTI are focusing their activities on the U.S. healthcare market to offer hospitals and clinics a state-of-the-art imaging modality as an adjunct to traditional methods of imaging and scanning soft tissue disorders, such as magnetic resonance imaging and computed tomography.

TRW's primary systems integration responsibilities on this new four-year contract, estimated at $27 million, involve installing and maintaining the CTI(TM) diagnostic equipment systems sold by CTI. Work will be performed in San Bernardino, Calif. and Ogden, Utah, the site of TRW's advanced medical imaging laboratory.

Operational and clinical training required to identify and diagnose soft tissue and physiological disorders will also be provided by TRW.

The CTI(TM) system employes a sophisticated infrared camera and computing system that allows for the rapid collection of numerous images and temperature data over a several-minute testing period, with a high degree of accuracy. By monitoring the body's temperature regulatory systems, healthcare practitioners can discover and observe physiological anomalies in human soft tissue. TRW's advanced imaging technologies, which involve complex algorithms and high level processing, enhance the speed, accuracy, and resolution of the data being captured by the system and also provide classification and three-dimensional visualization of the data.

TRW's advanced image processing algorithms can be applied to other imaging modalities as well, resulting in three-dimensional tools that help clinicians visualize a disorder more quickly.

With today's computer and digital technology, digitized temperature data taken during a patient's clinical examination can be collected, viewed, and compared over time. The CTI system collects multiple images instead of a single, static image. This functional testing yields valuable clinical information about the physiological conditions at the tissue disorder site during the testing period.

TRW is currently working with selected universities and medical schools in modeling and testing heat propagation, perfusion, and transmission through tissue to gain more specific information about the location and depth of the tumor or disorder.

TRW will also develop and operate a database registry for new classes of soft tissue disorders, as they are identified and processed by TRW's advanced medical imaging laboratory. The registry will enable clinicians to quickly look up reference cases for comparing similar categories of disorders, saving the healthcare provider time and cost in making diagnoses and establishing effective treatment protocols for the patient.

A Help Desk and depot operation (for equipment parts) are planned to be established later this year by TRW at its Ogden facility to assist clinicians in the operation and maintenance of the CTI system. The Help Desk will be equipped with the dual capabilities of an 800 phone number and a Web-based access feature.

Computerized Thermal Imaging, Inc., based in Lake Oswego, Ore., markets and sells its computerized thermal imaging systems to hospitals, health management organizations, and free-standing imaging centers worldwide.

TRW provides advanced technology products and services to the automotive and space and defense markets. Sales in 1996 were $9.8 billion.

For CTI information, call Andrew Graft, Jordan Richard Assoc. [phone].

CONTACT: TRW Inc.

Linda Javier, 310/812-4105

Al Frascella, 703/803-5353