Provision Center for proton therapy selects RayStation®


RaySearch Laboratories AB has received an order for its RayStation® treatment
planning system from Provision Center for Proton Therapy. This partnership with
Provision represents a milestone since it is the first proton center to select
RayStation® since RaySearch and IBA initiated a collaboration in the field of
proton therapy earlier this year.

Provision Center for Proton Therapy is one of only 14 proton therapy centers in
the United States. Opening in early 2014, the Center is part of Provision Health
Alliance’s comprehensive outpatient cancer treatment campus located in
Knoxville, Tennessee. The comprehensive campus at Dowell Springs is both patient
and physician-friendly and is the new model for future healthcare delivery.

"The Provision Center for Proton Therapy is excited to be the one of the first
proton therapy facilities in the United States to utilize RaySearch's advanced
treatment planning system,” said Mary Lou DuBois, President of Provision Center
for Proton Therapy. “RaySearch's innovative products, commitment to research and
development, and strong collaborative approach to deliver high quality patient
care perfectly aligns with our mission at Provision."

RayStation® will be implemented for clinical use at Provision Center for Proton
Therapy beginning in the first quarter of 2014. This will include uniform
scanning and passive scattering proton beam planning, IMRT for photons with
multi-criteria optimization, as well as cutting edge technologies such as full
deformable registration and adaptive re-planning. Pencil Beam Scanning (PBS)
dose calculation capabilities that will allow for Intensity Modulated Proton
Therapy (IMPT) will be introduced sometime in mid-2014.

Niek Schreuder, VP and Chief medical Physicist for Provision Center for Proton
Therapy says: “The RayStation system offers a much needed improvement of the
treatment planning environment for proton radiation therapy. Using the
RayStation system will help us to improve our efficiency in producing highly
optimized treatment plans for our patients and will offer advanced plan
evaluation tools to the clinical team. We are excited to start using the system
on our very first patients in January 2014.”

Marc Mlyn, President of RaySearch Americas says: “We are excited to partner with
Provision Center for Proton Therapy. Their state-of-the-art treatment center
represents an ideal environment in which we can work together to enable
efficient and ultra-modern patient care.”

Johan Löf, CEO of RaySearch adds: “In May we entered into a collaboration with
the leading proton therapy equipment supplier IBA to further refine our
treatment planning solution for proton treatments delivered with IBA systems.
That collaboration enables us to provide the best proton treatment planning
system on the market and I can’t think of a better clinical partner than
Provision to successfully implement these cutting edge technologies.”

About Provision Center for Proton Therapy
Opening in early 2014, the Provision Center for Proton Therapy will be the first
of its kind in Tennessee and only the second in the Southeastern United States.
Open to all credentialed physicians and health systems in the region, the
Provision Center for Proton Therapy will have three treatment rooms and will be
able to treat up to 1,000 cancer patients annually, and will bring in many
patients from outside the area. The center brings to Knoxville an advanced
cancer treatment capability that presently is available in only a handful of
cities. Upon opening, it will be one of only 14 proton therapy centers in the
nation.

For more information about Provision Center for Proton Therapy, visit
www.provisionproton.com.

About RayStation®
RayStation® integrates all RaySearch’s advanced treatment planning solutions
into a flexible treatment planning system. It combines unique features such as
multi-criteria optimization tools with full support for 4D adaptive radiation
therapy. It also includes functionality such as RaySearch’s market-leading
algorithms for IMRT and VMAT optimization and highly accurate dose engines for
photon, electron and proton therapy. The system is built on the latest software
architecture and has a graphical user interface offering state-of-the-art
usability.

About RaySearch
RaySearch Laboratories is a medical technology company that develops advanced
software solutions for improved radiation therapy of cancer. RaySearch’s
products are mainly sold through license agreements with leading partners such
as Philips, Nucletron, IBA, Varian, Accuray and Brainlab. To date, 15 products
have been launched through partners and RaySearch’s software is used at over
2,000 clinics in more than 30 countries. In addition, RaySearch offers the
proprietary treatment planning system RayStation® directly to clinics. RaySearch
was founded in 2000 as a spin-off from Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm and
the company is listed in the Small Cap segment on NASDAQ OMX Stockholm.

For more information about RaySearch, visit www.raysearchlabs.com


For further information, please contact:
Johan Löf, President and CEO, RaySearch Laboratories AB
Telephone: +46 (0)8-545 061 30
johan.lof@raysearchlabs.com

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