Orasi Medical and Elekta Jointly Release White Paper on Functional Brain Mapping using Elekta Neuromag Technology

MEG can accelerate drug development, reduce costs and improve CNS drug innovation

MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. – August 3, 2010 ¬– Elekta Neuromag and Orasi Medical® today released a white paper titled, “Functional Brain Mapping using Magnetoencephalography” detailing the opportunity for utilizing Elekta’s magnetoencephalography (MEG) technology to accelerate the development of drugs to treat neurological disorders.

The release of the paper comes at a critical time. With the average duration to bring a Central Nervous System (CNS) drug to market exceeding 12 years—and only seven percent of neurological drugs making it to market—pharmaceutical companies are looking for technologies to assess the effect of drugs earlier and more accurately in the development process. “There is a critical need for better tools to ascertain brain function in drug development, as well as novel biomarkers that identify neurological drug and disease signatures,” said Michael Gold, Vice President, GlaxoSmithKline.

This novel application of MEG can accelerate drug development, reduce costs and improve CNS drug innovation by measuring neurological drug effects and real-time brain function throughout key phases of the drug development process. “High resolution measurement of brain function will provide critical new insights into disease states and drug action,” said Jim Petite, neurophysiologist and author of the white paper. Specifically, the white paper describes MEG technology, its current clinical and research use, illustrates the comparison of MEG to electroencephalography (EEG) and importantly demonstrates how MEG can improve and accelerate the development of CNS drugs.

“We have heard firsthand from pharmaceutical thought leaders that there is no one modality that solves the current needs in CNS clinical drug development,” said Stephen Otto, Chairman of Elekta’s Neuromag Business. "The technical advantages and patient-friendly qualities of MEG make it a natural fit for the measurement of CNS drugs.”

To download the white paper, visit www.orasimedical.com/2010megwhitepaper.

About Elekta
Elekta is a human care company pioneering significant innovations and clinical solutions for treating cancer and brain disorders. The company develops sophisticated, state-of-the-art tools and treatment planning systems for radiation therapy and radiosurgery, as well as workflow enhancing software systems across the spectrum of cancer care. Stretching the boundaries of science and technology, providing intelligent and resource-efficient solutions that offer confidence to both healthcare providers and patients, Elekta aims to improve, prolong and even save patient lives, making the future possible today. Today, Elekta solutions in oncology and neurosurgery are used in over 5,000 hospitals globally, and every day more than 100,000 patients receive diagnosis, treatment or follow-up with the help of a solution from the Elekta Group.
Elekta employs around 2,500 employees globally. The corporate headquarter is located in Stockholm, Sweden, and the company is listed on the Nordic Exchange under the ticker EKTAb. For more information on Elekta Neuromag, visit www.elekta.com/neuromag

About Orasi Medical
Orasi Medical develops products to measure the effect of neurological treatments and track the progression of neurological disorders. Pharmaceutical companies use Orasi Index™, the company’s flagship product, to reduce costs and improve clinical development of neurological treatments. Orasi’s high-resolution measurement of brain function provides a robust, non-invasive and reproducible measure of pharmacodynamics and treatment effect and its software as a service model enables highly efficient web-based analysis and reporting of the results. For more information, please visit www.orasimedical.com.

For further information, please contact:
Sarah Haecker, Vice President Business Development, Orasi Medical, Inc
Tel: +1 763-951-8001, ext. 107; sarah.haecker@orasimedical.com
Time zone: CST: Central Daylight

Michelle Lee, Director, Global Public Relations and Brand Management, Elekta
Tel: +1 770-670-2447, michelle.lee@elekta.com
Time zone: EDT: Eastern Daylight