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Biotech / Medical : Swissray Intl. Inc. (SRMI) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Judy Helkowski who wrote (401)	4/16/1998 12:37:00 PM
From: SIer formerly known as Joe B.	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 763

Digital imaging is a broad term. This is excerpted from a SRMI release: Swissray plans to market the AddOn-Buckyr in the United States as part of its AddOn-Multi-System, a complete multifunctional digital X-ray system which performs most general X-ray applications. FDA approval for the complete system is pending. As all other components of the AddOn-Multi-System have already received FDA approval, we expect that market approval for the entire system should be forthcoming shortly" said Michael Baker, Chief Executive Officer of Swissray Information Systems, who is supervising the FDA approval process for the Company. Digital imaging technology, such as computed tomography, nuclear medicine, magnetic resonance imaging, ultrasound, digital subtraction angiography and certain fluroscopy systems, has been in use for a number of years for specific diagnostic applications. But an estimated 70% of all diagnostic examinations are still performed using conventional radiography with traditional screen-film systems. So 30% of diagnostic exams use digital imaging. This still leaves SRMI a huge market. All I'm getting at is when you hear digital imaging you can't just assume it's SRMI.

To: Judy Helkowski who wrote (401)	4/16/1998 4:42:00 PM
From: George Yorg	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 763

Hi Judy, We have been fairly quiet on this message board for the past few weeks. Swissray is not a word of mouth just yet. That broker to whom you spoke was referring to Sterling Imaging. Strangely enough about two months ago a writer for the Philadelphia Inquirer wrote a syndicated column on the future of digital xray in which he touted Sterling as being the foremost in the business and would beftirst out with the product. He went to great lengths to mention all the other firms around the world who were working on digital xray but failed to mention Swissray at all. His article was published a month after the RSNA show to which he had also referred to so I infer that the omission was not inadvertent. Sterling is quite close now to having full approval. If you go to the Yahoo message boards re SRMI, you can find out quite a bit about the competition from Sterling. Regards, George Yorg