"We'll continue our focus in these areas and related educational programs as we strive to help more clinicians advance their ability to detect and diagnose patients earlier and more precisely than every before."

According to GE, its compact ultrasound sales grew 45% in the first half of 2006 compared to the same period last year, while sales of systems with Volume Ultrasound capability grew 20%.

GE Unveils New Compact Series

Earlier this year, GE introduced its new Compact Series of ultrasound products -- four evolutionary new ultrasound systems designed to address healthcare providers' growing demand for sophisticated, real-time imaging at the point of care. GE's Compact Series places the power and imaging capabilities of a high-performance, 400-pound system into a laptop-size design.

GE's Compact Series includes the Vivid i and Voluson i, as well as the LOGIQ i, which is FDA-cleared and slated for commercial release in Fall 2006. Each "i" product is designed to bring specialized, console-quality imaging performance and portability to traditional applications. Vivid i is designed for Cardiovascular applications, while Voluson i offers the world's first 4D imaging capabilities in a compact designed for Obstetrics & Gynecology. LOGIQ i will serve the general imaging needs of Radiology.
GE's Compact Series "e" products focus on expanding ultrasound's reach to new clinical areas. The new LOGIQ e is uniquely designed with the speed and diagnostic image quality to support real-time clinical decisions in Emergency and Surgical settings. GE's new Vivid e provides
a dedicated cardiac ultrasound imaging solution for the Physician Office in a practical, easy to use design.

With the introduction of its Compact Series, GE expects to double its compact ultrasound business -- delivering more than 5,000 compact Vivid(r), LOGIQ(r) and Voluson(r) ultrasound systems worldwide in 2006.

Multi-center Study Demonstrates Volume Ultrasound Productivity GE's unique Volume Ultrasound technologies, which have been rapidly adopted and applied in daily clinical practice around the globe, allows clinicians to acquire and analyze volumetric data - both online and offline after the patient has gone home. In a recent multi-center study conducted by GE involving more than 600 patient exams, Volume Ultrasound demonstrated an average productivity gain of 29% and up to 55% improvement in productivity for the volume technique over traditional 2D scanning.
Volume Ultrasound provides clinicians the ability sweep across an area of a patient's anatomy and quickly acquire a complete raw data set. Using raw data, clinicians can perform a virtual re-scan by

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