Grant of Share Options to Directors and Employees (1446Y)

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RNS Number : 1446Y

Medicsight Plc

17 December 2010

 
 Press Release   17 December 2010

Medicsight PLC

("Medicsight" or "the Company")

Grant of Share Options to Directors and Employees

Medicsight (AIM:MDST), industry leader in the development of Computer-Aided Detection (CAD) and image analysis software which assists in the early detection and diagnosis of disease, today announces approval of a new share option scheme ("scheme M") and the grant of options to subscribe for ordinary shares of 5 pence each in the Company. Under scheme M, one sixth of the options granted become exercisable at a price of 5 pence per share at six monthly intervals post grant date between 16 December 2010 and 16 December 2013.

Tim Paterson-Brown, Allan Rowley and Troy Robinson, Executive Directors, have on 13 December been granted 2,125,000, 1,000,000 and 1,200,000 scheme M options respectively. Following the grant of these share options, the Executive Directors' interests share options are set out below:

 
                                           Number of share 
                         Existing share    options granted         Total share 
                          options held:    under scheme M:            options: 
-------------------  ------------------  -----------------  ------------------ 
 Tim Paterson-Brown             875,000          2,125,000           3,000,000 
 Allan Rowley                 2,000,000          1,000,000           3,000,000 
 Troy Robinson                  300,000          1,200,000           1,500,000

A total of 5,380,000 options have been granted.

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For further information:

 
 Medicsight plc 
 Allan Rowley, CEO          Tel: +44 (0)20 7605 
                             7950 
                            www.medicsight.com 
 Daniel Stewart & Co 
 Emma Earl / Oliver Rigby   Tel: +44 (0) 207 776 
                             6550 
                            www.danielstewart.co.uk

Media enquiries:

 
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                                      www.abchurch-group.com 
 Heather Salmond                      Tel: +44 (0) 207 398 
                                       7704 
 heather.salmond@abchurch-group.com 
 Simone Elviss                        Tel: +44 (0) 207 398 
                                       7728 
 simone.elviss@abchurch-group.com 
 Quincy Allan                         Tel: +44 (0) 207 398 
                                       7710 
 quincy.allan@abchurch-group.com

Notes to editors

Medicsight PLC is a UK-headquartered, research driven, leading developer of computer-aided detection (CAD) and image analysis software for the medical imaging market. The CAD software automatically highlights suspicious areas on computerised tomography (CT) scans of the colon and lung, helping radiologists to identify, measure and analyse potential disease and early indicators of disease. Medicsight's CAD software has been validated using one of the world's largest and most population diverse databases of verified patient CT scan data. Medicsight's ColonCAD(TM) and LungCAD(TM) software products are seamlessly integrated with the advanced 3D visualisation workstations of several industry-leading imaging equipment partners.

About Computer-Aided Detection

With increasingly sophisticated radiological imaging hardware such as Multi-Detector CT scanners, radiologists are facing a growing challenge in the amount of detailed patient image data that they must review for each patient examination. Some CT scan examinations generate as many as 2000 images per patient. Review of this data by the radiologist is not only time-consuming but also prone to error due to reader fatigue. CAD software can help the reviewing radiologist by analysing the image data and automatically highlighting suspicious regions of interest for closer inspection. Without CAD software some potential abnormalities or areas of disease may be overlooked. This can be critical for diagnosis and the management of patient outcomes as early detection of disease greatly increases the probability of successful treatment and a positive therapeutic outcome. In addition to supporting individual radiologists CAD also has the potential to help standardise CT interpretation across both individuals and institutions thereby supporting population based screening programmes.

About Medicsight's CAD software

Medicsight's ColonCAD(TM) and LungCAD(TM) software use an advanced CAD algorithm to analyse CT scans of the colon and lung and automatically highlight suspicious areas that may be indicators of disease. CAD may highlight areas easily overlooked by the reviewing radiologist, such as small lesions or regions that are hidden from view behind folds in the colon or normal structures and surrounding tissue in the lung.

Both CAD products seamlessly integrate with the advanced 3D visualisation platforms of industry-leading imaging equipment partners. The integrated systems provide sophisticated image viewing capabilities, including 3D reconstructed image data, with the added advantage of demonstrating automatic CAD findings to assist clinical end users in the detection and analysis of disease. This allows clinical end users to perform either a 'second read', where CAD findings are displayed to the user after completion of an initial review of the CT scan data, or a 'concurrent read' where CAD findings are displayed during the user's initial review of the original CT scan images.

Since inception, Medicsight has developed close and lasting relationships with some of the world's foremost clinicians in product related areas. This provides the Company with a wealth of clinical expertise and dedicated clinical research to support ongoing product development. Medicsight also collaborates with a number of leading academic institutions and clinical research programmes worldwide to develop the Company's comprehensive database of population diverse verified patient CT scan data, thus allowing Medicsight's products to be validated to the highest possible standards.

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