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San Francisco Fights Cancer with New Mobile Scanning System; ``Mobile P.E.T. Systems Inc. Provides Redwood Regional Medical Group Positron Emission Tomography''.


Business Editors/Health & Medical Writers

SAN DIEGO--(BW HealthWire)--Sept. 21, 2000

Mobile P.E.T. Systems Inc. (OTCBB OTCBB

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:MBPT MBPT Many-Body Perturbation Theory ), begins providing service to the San Francisco Bay San Francisco Bay, 50 mi (80 km) long and from 3 to 13 mi (4.8–21 km) wide, W Calif.; entered through the Golden Gate, a strait between two peninsulas.  area's Redwood Regional Medical Group with the newest generation of medical imaging technology called Positron Emission Tomography positron emission tomography: see PET scan.
positron emission tomography (PET)

Imaging technique used in diagnosis and biomedical research.
 (PET) from GE and Siemens and integrated into state of the art mobile units.

Paul Crowe, president and chief executive officer of Mobile P.E.T. Systems Inc. stated, "We are pleased to be providing our services to this unique group of medical professionals in the San Francisco San Francisco (săn frănsĭs`kō), city (1990 pop. 723,959), coextensive with San Francisco co., W Calif., on the tip of a peninsula between the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay, which are connected by the strait known as the Golden  area. PET is a superior diagnostic tool capable of detecting disease before the patient has symptoms and is the new generation medical imaging protocol for today's healthcare environment. Cancer, functional disorders, and cardiovascular disease Cardiovascular disease
Disease that affects the heart and blood vessels.

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cardiovascular disease 
 can all be detected at the very earliest stages."

Redwood Regional Medical Group Inc. (RRMG) is a multi-specialty professional corporation consisting of a 40-physician fellowship trained in three medical specialties, including Radiology, Medical Oncology, and Radiation Oncology radiation oncology
n.
The branch of radiology that deals with the use of ionizing radiation to treat cancers.


radiation oncology 
. RRMG has offices in the four northern San Francisco Bay area “Bay Area” redirects here. For other uses, see Bay Area (disambiguation).

The San Francisco Bay Area, colloquially known as the Bay Area or The Bay
 counties of Sonoma, Napa, Mendocino and Lake. The medical staff consists of 20 radiologists, 13 medical oncologists and seven radiation oncologists and 300 employees. The primary goal of the group is to diagnose and treat oncology patients in the communities using the most advanced diagnostic imaging equipment, chemotherapy agents and radiotherapy equipment available. RRMG is contracted to provide diagnostic and intervention radiology, in six infusion rooms and four linear accelerators owned and managed by the group at two outpatient imaging centers, in the five hospitals.

Murray Wood, director, RRMG, said, "The mobile PET scanner PET scanner
n.
A device that produces cross-sectional x-rays of metabolic processes by means of positron emission tomography.



PET scanning n.
 which Mobile P.E.T. is providing us is the ideal piece of diagnostic imaging equipment for our oncology specialty group. It fits perfectly with our need to provide early diagnosis and treatment for cancer patients, to avoid traumatic and costly treatments and to monitor the treatment progress of chemotherapy and radiotherapy. Leasing the mobile PET scanner from Mobile P.E.T. Systems Inc. enables us to acquire this very important imaging modality which past experience shows is utilized 80% by oncologists without the outlay of capital which can be used to develop other opportunities for the practice."

About P.E.T.

Positron Emission Tomography (PET) is an early detection diagnostic imaging procedure for caner, heart disease and neurological disorders. The PET procedure typically will alter the patient treatment in over 40% of the cases providing patients and their physicians with better treatment options and improved outcomes. Because PET obviates unnecessary surgery or therapies by detecting anomalies at the very earliest stages, the third party insurer realizes value for money by utilizing the PET procedures as a primary diagnostic tool.

Mobile P.E.T. Systems Inc. is the leading medical service provider of "positron emission tomography" imaging services to hospitals and health care professionals, develops and operates mobile and fixed site P.E.T. centers in the United States and Europe.

For information: Leonard MacMillan, 619/226-6738, email: macmillan@mobilepet.com Internet: www.mobilepet.com, Trading symbol Trading symbol

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: "MBPT"

Certain statements contained in this press release may be "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of the Private Securities Legislation Reform Act of 1996, including, without limitation, anything relating or referring to financial results and plans for future business development activities, and are thus prospective.
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