BURLINGTON, MA – Terason, the market leading producer of high performance laptop ultrasound imaging systems, today announced it has signed a distribution agreement for the European market with Aloka Holding Europe AG, a leading manufacturer and distributor of ultrasound systems. The agreement names Aloka as Terason’s exclusive European distributor for the Terason t3000™ Ultrasound System.

“The same attributes that make Terason ultrasound systems popular with a wide range of clinical specialties in the U.S. and Asia – superior image quality, mobility, and connectivity – make our systems ideal for a broad range of European markets as well,” said Alice Chiang, Ph.D., Teratech President and CEO. “Aloka, with decades of successful experience in the European ultrasound market, is a natural distribution choice. This agreement is an important step to increase our momentum in the European market.”

“We are pleased to be associated with the exciting new technology that Terason has developed, and to have been selected to introduce Terason’s Windows®-based compact, convertible t3000 Ultrasound System to the European market,” said Dr. Stephan Suwald, President of Aloka Holding Europe AG. “We look forward to putting this innovative technology into the hands of clinicians throughout Europe.”

About Terason
Headquartered near Boston, Massachusetts, Terason, a division of Teratech Corporation (www.terason.com), is a diagnostic ultrasound technology company setting new standards for image quality, ease of use, size and cost.  Using breakthrough system integration technologies, Terason helps improve patient care by enabling compact equipment to generate diagnostic images previously possible only using large, expensive machines.  The leading manufacturer of high performance laptop ultrasound imaging systems, Terason was established in 1994 as a spin-off of Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Lincoln Laboratory.   Since Terason introduced its first product in 2001, thousands of ultrasound systems have been shipped throughout the world both to clinicians and to partners such as Siemens, BrainLab and Endocare. The company’s unique Teratech™ Architecture and Fusion™ Processor technologies enable exceptional image quality, system miniaturization and value.

About Aloka
Aloka Co., Ltd. (www.aloka.com), headquartered in Tokyo, is a leading manufacturer of medical devices, which introduced the 1st Diagnostic Ultrasound system in 1960. With more than 50 years of history in Medical Diagnostic Ultrasound, Aloka is one of the most experienced and innovative companies in the diagnostic ultrasound market. One of the important innovations introduced by Aloka in 1983 was the 'Color Doppler' technology. Today this technique has become an indispensable diagnostic tool in many ultrasound examinations in a widespread variety of applications.  Aloka Holding Europe AG was established in 1999. Aloka Holding Europe covers the whole European Market, having direct subsidiaries in Austria, Switzerland, Spain, Italy, France and Germany, and distributors for the remaining part of Europe.

Contacts:
Terason
Peter Colgan
VP, Marketing and Business Development
(781) 270-4143

Aloka
Hans-Guido Sturk
Product Line Manager, General Imaging
+41 41 747 21 39

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