Fidex Begins Clinical Testing

8/28/09, Pleasanton, California

Animage, LLC, a veterinary diagnostic imaging technology company, has begun clinical trial of its premier product, Fidex, a multiple-modality diagnostic imaging system designed specifically for use in small animal veterinary practice and clinical research laboratories.

A Fidex system has been installed in Dr Barry Kipperman’s VetCare Emergency and Specialty Care Center in Dublin, California. Site delivery and installation took only about three hours. Dr Kipperman and his staff are undergoing familiarization and training on Fidex, as well as learning how to use manipulate and use the images Fidex creates. At the same time, Dr Kipperman and his staff are providing Animage with valuable information on how to optimize Fidex for veterinary practice.

Fidex is the first system of its kind in veterinary diagnostic imaging. Fidex has in one machine radiography (CR or DR), computed tomography (CT), and fluoroscopy. This creates unprecedented economies of both space and financial resources for veterinarians who want to add to their clinics’ diagnostic imaging capabilities, but might have been inhibited from doing so by the availability of space or financial resources that adding one or two additional machines would require. Even as just a CT scanner, Fidex offers a brand new system that is smaller, requires much less power and room modification, is less complex, is easier to operate and maintain, and costs less to operate and maintain than a refurbished, used human CT scanner. Fidex is comparable in price to refurbished, used human CT scanners.

Animage is now preparing a Fidex system for installation at the UC Davis School of Veterinary Medicine sometime i n September, where it will undergo further clinical trial.

Animage plans to make Fidex available to the marketplace around the end of October, 2009.

Animage, LLC of Pleasanton, California was founded in 2008 by parent company Exxim Computing Corporation in order to create unique diagnostic imaging products dedicated to the veterinary practice industry. Exxim is a diagnostic imaging technology company that creates CT imaging software products for customers worldwide, including Siemens, Imaging Sciences, and many others.

VetCare Emergency and Specialty Care Center, of Dublin, California, was founded in 1997 by Dr Barry Kipperman, DVM. VetCare is a 24-hour-a-day veterinary hospital providing internal medicine, surgery, and emergency services. Dr Kipperman earned his Doctor of Veterinary Medicine degree in 1987 from the University of Missouri. He was board certified in internal medicine in 1994. Dr. Kipperman is an expert in veterinary ethics and animal advocacy, and is an author of numerous articles on these topics. Dr Kipperman is also a guest lecturer on veterinary medical ethics at the UC Davis School of Veterinary Medicine.