CHICAGO, Nov. 27 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Mercury Computer Systems, Inc.
(NASDAQ: MRCY) announced the establishment of the Mercury Clinical Advisory
Board, which will assist in directing the Company's product development
strategies in the Life Sciences group, and in breaking new ground in
technology innovations that will help drive the future of image understanding
in the medical realm. The announcement was made at the 91st Scientific
Assembly and Annual Meeting of the Radiological Society of North America
(RSNA).
An example of such innovation is the Mercury Visage(TM) product family,
which includes volume-rendering and reconstruction embedded software
components for accelerated 3D visualization of medical image data. It also
includes a fully customizable turnkey medical imaging workstation system, as
well as an innovative thin client/server architecture that provides all the
capabilities of the advanced Mercury software anywhere in the enterprise.
Each product within the family will be architected for 3D to the Core
functionality, to provide a fully integrated, seamless workflow solution
spanning the entire medical image management and 3D visualization process.
The first appointed member of the Mercury Clinical Advisory Board is Board
Chairman Keith Dreyer, M.D., Ph.D. Additional Board members will be announced
in the near future. Eliot Siegel, M.D., serves as R&D advisor to the Board.
"The Mercury Clinical Advisory Board will provide us guidance in the
evolution of the advanced clinical applications for the diagnostic imaging and
PACS markets, at both the workstation and enterprise server level," said
Marcelo Lima, Vice President of Commercial Imaging and Visualization at
Mercury. "We are honored to have Drs. Dreyer and Siegel to support our
efforts, and we look forward to extending the membership with individuals who
complement their combined expertise and insight."
Keith Dreyer, M.D., Ph.D. is the Vice-Chairman of Radiology - Informatics
at Massachusetts General Hospital and Assistant Professor of Radiology at the
Harvard Medical School. Dr. Dreyer has held several board, committee and
editorial positions for top-tier radiological societies including the ACR,
ARRS, RSNA and SCAR, and serves as medical advisor and consultant for more
than a dozen global healthcare corporations. He has authored numerous books,
papers, and lectures worldwide on PACS (picture archiving and communication
systems), distributed medical imaging, web image distribution, image-enabled
electronic medical records, medical informatics, natural language processing,
advanced visualization, and voice recognition and decision support.
Eliot Siegel, M.D. is Professor and Vice Chair (Information Systems),
Department of Diagnostic Radiology, University of Maryland School of Medicine.
He will work with the Visage CS Thin Client/Server and will contribute to
Mercury's R&D efforts in the area of medical imaging. Dr. Siegel is an
internationally known authority in the area of diagnostic imaging, PACS, and
imaging informatics, has lectured worldwide and is a widely sought advisor to
a multitude of global healthcare companies in the medical imaging and PACS
domains. He holds memberships, serves on organizing committees, and is on the
board of many professional organizations such as RSNA, SCAR, SPIE, Association
of University Radiologists, American Roentgen Ray Society, American College of
Radiology, and others.
About Mercury Computer Systems, Inc.
Mercury Computer Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: MRCY) is the leading provider of
high-performance embedded, real-time digital signal and image processing
solutions. Mercury's solutions play a critical role in a wide range of
applications, transforming sensor data to information for analysis and
interpretation. In military reconnaissance and surveillance platforms the
Company's systems process real-time radar, sonar, and signals intelligence
data. Mercury's systems are also used in state-of-the-art medical diagnostic
imaging devices including MRI, PET, and digital X-ray, and in semiconductor
imaging applications including photomask generation and wafer inspection.
Mercury provides advanced 3D image processing and visualization software and
optimized systems to diverse end markets including life sciences, geosciences,
and simulation. The Company also provides radio frequency (RF) products for
enhanced communications capabilities in military and commercial applications.
Based in Chelmsford, Massachusetts, Mercury serves customers in North
America, Europe and Asia through its direct sales force and a network of
subsidiaries and distributors. Visit Mercury on the web at http://www.mc.com.
Forward-Looking Safe Harbor Statement
This press release contains certain forward-looking statements, as that
term is defined in the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995,
including those relating to the Mercury Clinical Advisory Board and the Visage
product family. You can identify these statements by our use of the words
"may," "will," "should," "plans," "expects," "anticipates," "continue,"
"estimate," "project," "intend," and similar expressions. These forward-
looking statements involve risks and uncertainties that could cause actual
results to differ materially from those projected or anticipated. Such risks
and uncertainties include, but are not limited to, general economic and
business conditions, including unforeseen weakness in the Company's markets,
effects of continued geo-political unrest and regional conflicts, competition,
changes in technology, and methods of marketing, delays in completing
engineering and manufacturing programs, changes in customer order patterns,
changes in product mix, continued success in technological advances and
delivering technological innovations, continued funding of defense programs,
the timing of such funding, changes in the U.S. Government's interpretation of
federal procurement rules and regulations, market acceptance of the Company's
products, shortages in components, production delays due to performance
quality issues with outsourced components, and inability to fully realize the
expected benefits from acquisitions or delays in realizing such benefits,
challenges in integrating acquired businesses, and achieving anticipated
synergies, and difficulties in retaining key customers. These risks and
uncertainties also include such additional risk factors as are discussed in
the Company's recent filings with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission,
including its Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the fiscal quarter ended
September 30, 2005. The Company cautions readers not to place undue reliance
upon any such forward-looking statements, which speak only as of the date
made. The Company undertakes no obligation to update any forward-looking
statement to reflect events or circumstances after the date on which such
statement is made.
Contacts:
Kathy Donahue Wayne St. Amand
Public Relations Manager Vice President
Mercury Computer Systems, Inc. Greenough Communications
978-967-1126 / kdonahue@mc.com 617-275-6519 / wstamand@greenoughcom.com
Visage is a trademark of Mercury Computer Systems, Inc. Product and
company names mentioned may be trademarks and/or registered trademarks of
their respective holders.
SOURCE Mercury Computer Systems, Inc.
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CONTACT:
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Mercury Computer Systems, Inc., +1-978-967-1126, kdonahue@mc.com,
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