Fischer Imaging Announces Initial Shipments of Cedara-based SenoView Plus Softcopy Workstations; Installations at Leading Hospitals Across North America.

DENVER & TORONTO -- Fischer Imaging Corporation (Pink Sheets:FIMG) today announced that it has begun initial shipments of a new, leading edge digital mammography workstation, the result of its collaboration with Cedara Software Corp. (Nasdaq:CDSW)(TSX:CDE). The softcopy workstation, named SenoView(TM) Plus, is integrated with Fischer's SenoScan(R) digital mammography system to provide radiologists with powerful new capabilities for diagnosing breast cancer.

Hospitals that have installed or are about to install the workstations include: Mt. Sinai Hospital, Marvelle Koffler Breast Centre, Toronto; City Hospital, Martinsburg, West Virginia; and Sansum Santa Barbara Medical Foundation Clinic, Santa Barbara, California.

The SenoView Plus workstation will allow radiologists to compare SenoScan digital mammography images and competitive FFDM images with multi-modality images, such as ultrasound and MRIs. The workstation's PACS-like design lends itself to reading studies from all modalities with speed. The net result is the ability to deliver optimal workflow and reading efficiency compared with traditional film screen mammography systems with the added versatility of a PACS review station.

Fischer and Cedara teams were able to rapidly integrate their respective systems as a result of the open architecture of the SenoScan imaging platform. By producing images in an industry-standard DICOM format SenoScan is open to leading current and future complementary technologies assuring customers maximum choice and flexibility.

"Our open architecture assures customers not only the freedom of choice they desire, but the opportunity to achieve the highest possible performance from their mammography operations," said Harris Ravine, Fischer Imaging president and CEO. "Cedara brings powerful, specialized multi-modality, digital workstation capabilities that will help Fischer achieve its goal of providing the best total solution. I am pleased by how rapidly our respective teams were able to complete and assure the product offering and get it into our customers' hands," said Ravine.

About Cedara Software

Headquartered in Toronto, Canada, Cedara Software Corp. is a leading independent provider of medical technologies for many of the world's leading medical device and healthcare information technology companies. Cedara software is deployed in thousands of hospitals and clinics worldwide. Cedara's advanced medical imaging technologies are used in all aspects of clinical workflow including the operator consoles of numerous medical imaging devices; Picture Archiving and Communications Systems (PACS); sophisticated clinical applications that further analyze and manipulate images; and even the use of imaging in minimally-invasive surgery. Cedara is unique in that it has expertise and technologies that span all the major digital imaging modalities including magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), computed tomography (CT), digital X-ray, ultrasound, mammography, cardiology, nuclear medicine, angiography, positron emission tomography (PET) and fluoroscopy. For more information, visit www.cedara.com.

About Fischer Imaging

Fischer Imaging Corporation designs, manufactures and markets medical imaging systems for the screening and diagnosis of disease. The company focuses on women's health, particularly the diagnosis and screening of breast cancer through the application of innovative digital imaging technologies. Fischer Imaging began producing general-purpose X-ray imaging systems in 1910 and is the oldest manufacturer of X-ray imaging devices in the United States. For more information, visit www.fischerimaging.com.