Toshiba and SonoWorld Announce a New Education Service for Toshiba Customers.

CHICAGO -- Toshiba America Medical Systems Inc. (TAMS) and SonoWorld jointly announced today the implementation of CME SonoBucks(TM) for Toshiba ultrasound customers.

"The SonoWorld Web site (www.sonoworld.com) provides high-quality continuing medical education (CME) for physicians and sonographers," said Gordon Parhar, director, Ultrasound Business Unit, Toshiba America Medical Systems Inc. "We wanted to offer our customers the widest possible range of educational resources, and the SonoWorld Web site provides the anytime, anywhere educational resource we were seeking."

Toshiba customers will receive access to the CME resources on SonoWorld via SonoBucks vouchers. These vouchers represent pre-paid CME credits. Toshiba makes the SonoBucks vouchers available as an add-on to equipment and service sales, allowing the customer to make a one-stop purchase of both products and education.

"SonoBucks can be redeemed on the SonoWorld Web site and used in payment for either AMA Category 1 or SDMS credits. This makes the pre-paid credit vouchers useful for both physicians and sonographers," said Ed Ray, president of SonoWorld. "We are proud to be selected by Toshiba as an educational provider and look forward to releasing additional outstanding new educational resources over the coming year."

For more information about TAMS and its wide range of medical imaging products, please visit www.medical.toshiba.com.

For more information about SonoWorld please visit www.sonoworld.com.

About SonoWorld

SonoWorld (www.sonoworld.com) is an educational Web site that focuses exclusively on diagnostic ultrasound. The site features an on-line textbook with chapters available for AMA PRA Category 1 and SDMS CME credits, clinical cases, news and many other resources for the ultrasound community. SonoWorld also offers patent-pending "Focused Learning(TM)" and "Can't Fail(TM)" technology that assures that the learner will develop mastery of the key points in each learning resource. More importantly, the SonoWorld Focused Learning(TM) system makes on-line learning fun!

About Toshiba

With headquarters in Tustin, Calif., Toshiba America Medical Systems markets, sells, distributes and services diagnostic imaging systems, and coordinates clinical diagnostic imaging research for all modalities in the United States. Toshiba Medical Systems Corp., an independent group company of Toshiba Corp., is a global leading provider of diagnostic medical imaging systems and comprehensive medical solutions, such as CT, X-ray, Ultrasound, Nuclear Medicine, MRI and information systems. Toshiba Corp. is a leader in information and communications systems, electronic components, consumer products, and power systems. Toshiba has 161,000 employees worldwide and annual sales of more than $53 billion.