Vital Images, Toshiba renew partnership

Advanced visualization software vendor Vital Images Inc. and Toshiba Medical Systems Corp. have renewed their U.S. and international marketing and distribution agreement for two years, through 2006.
   
As under the previous agreement, Toshiba will offer Vital Images' Vitrea 2 software through its subsidiaries and distributors in more than 50 nations in North and South America, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, Australia and Asia, except Japan.
   
Since 2000, Toshiba has been providing Vitrea software as the advanced visualization and analysis software of choice to customers purchasing Toshiba's Aquilion and other CT scanners.

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