NUMBER OF SHARES IN ELEKTA AS OF AUGUST 31, 2007

NUMBER OF SHARES IN ELEKTA AS OF AUGUST 31, 2007

PRESS RELEASE			
Stockholm, Sweden, August 31, 2007

According to new legislation, all publicly listed companies must - if the number
of shares has changed during the month - publish the total number of shares in
the company on the last trading day of the month.

During August, 24,519 new B shares were issued in Elekta through the exercise of
warrants distributed within the framework of the established option program. 

The total number of shares in Elekta as of August 31, 2007 amounts to 93,853,018
divided between 3,562,500 A shares and 90,290,518 B shares.

Elekta's current holding of shares (treasury stock) amounts to 1,630,871 B
shares, which the Board of Directors in Elekta AB intend to propose to the AGM
to cancel. 

One A share entitles the holder to ten votes and one B shares to one vote.

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For further information, please contact:

Okee Williams, Corporate Communications, Elekta AB
Tel: +46 706 00 53 64 (mobile), e-mail: okee.williams@elekta.com


About Elekta

Elekta is an international medical-technology Group, providing meaningful
clinical solutions, comprehensive information systems and services for improved
cancer care and management of brain disorders. All of Elekta's solutions employ
non-invasive or minimally invasive techniques and are therefore clinically
effective, gentle on the patient and cost-effective. 

Clinical solutions include among others Leksell Gamma Knife® for non-invasive
treatment of brain disorders and Elekta Synergy® for image guided radiation
therapy (IGRT). Following the acquisition of IMPAC Medical Systems Inc. in April
2005, the Elekta Group is the world's largest supplier of oncology software. 

Elekta's systems and solutions are used at over 4,000 hospitals around the world
to treat cancer and manage clinical operations as well as to diagnose and treat
brain disorders, including tumors, vascular malformations and functional
disorders. 

With approx. 2,000 employees, Elekta's corporate headquarter is located in
Stockholm, Sweden and the company is listed on the Nordic Exchange under the
ticker EKTAb. For more information about Elekta, please visit www.elekta.com.