After Capturing the U.S. Market, Frost & Sullivan Recognizes Naviscan's Pioneering Organ-Specific PET Scanner's Potential in Europe

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After Capturing the U.S. Market, Frost &

Sullivan Recognizes Naviscan's Pioneering

Organ-Specific PET Scanner's Potential in

Europe

PR Newswire

MOUNTAIN VIEW, California, June 6, 2012

- In addition to high resolution and sensitivity, Naviscan's product provides

incomparable workflow integration and economic benefits

MOUNTAIN VIEW, California

,

June 6, 2012

/PRNewswire/ -- Based on its recent

analysis of the organ-specific molecular imaging market, Frost & Sullivan

recognizes Naviscan Inc. (Naviscan) with the 2012 European Frost & Sullivan

Award for Product Quality Leadership for its organ-specific PET scanner. With

its main application in Positron Emission Mammography (PEM), the product

offers multiple benefits to the customer over competing products.

Naviscan's PET scanner offers numerous advantages in a wide variety of clinical

applications, such as detection, staging, monitoring response to neo-adjuvant

chemotherapy and re-staging of breast cancer, detection of peripheral tumors,

and screening for recurrent melanoma. Applications that are showing promise

in ongoing clinical trials include osteoarthritis and rheumatoid arthritis. With its

ability to position the detectors in close proximity to the organ imaged—

achieving higher resolution than a whole-body (WB) PET scanner—the product

is simply superior in quality.

Naviscan's intelligent design, including advanced photonics, biopsy guidance

software and cutting-edge visualization software, MIMViewer™ PEM

workstation, which was developed by MIMvista Software™, helps deliver high-

quality 3D tomographic images with excellent spatial resolution. While the

existing conventional screening methods for breast cancer produce results of

80 to 91 percent sensitivity, PEM offers 93 percent sensitivity and 93 percent

specificity. The visualization software is characteristic of its user-friendly

interface with options for creating customized images with attention to regions

of interest that can be saved as DICOM files to any PACS system.

"The proven accuracy, high sensitivity and specificity of the scanner in the

detection of lesions, particularly for breast cancer, helps the physicians make

confident and informed diagnosis," said Frost & Sullivan Research Analyst

Kaavya Karunanithi. "This helps in eliminating the number of false positives that

lead to unnecessary biopsies."

Further, the compact nature of the product offers additional economic benefits

by reducing maintenance and installation charges when compared to WB PET

or MRI scanners. Naviscan's design team has made the PET scanner very

portable to enable remote diagnostics.

"The company's major focus on quality in the past five years has enabled its

PET scanner to achieve high market penetration in the

USA

by capitalizing on

numerous peer-reviewed publications from multicenter prospective clinical

trials that showcase the high sensitivity, specificity and accuracy that the

product delivers," notes Karunanithi. "It is with this reputation that the product