First RayStation® order in Scandinavia


RaySearch Laboratories AB has received an order for its RayStation® treatment
planning system from Oslo University Hospital in Oslo, Norway.

Oslo University Hospital is a highly specialized public hospital for citizens of
the South-Eastern Health Region of Norway including Oslo. The hospital also has
a nationwide responsibility for a number of national and multi-regional
assignments. It is a Comprehensive Cancer Center including an institute of
Cancer Research and a Cancer Registry, and has several national centers of
competence. The hospital is Scandinavia’s largest, carrying out more than 1.2
million patient treatments annually, and is responsible for approximately 50
percent of all medical and healthcare research conducted at Norwegian hospitals.
RayStation® will be used at the hospital’s unit for radiation therapy at the
Norwegian Radium Hospital which is one of the largest radiation therapy centers
in Northern Europe.

The hospital will primarily use RayStation® to perform adaptive radiation
therapy. This is an advanced form of radiation therapy where the delivered dose
is adjusted continuously during the course of treatment to account for changes
occurring in the patient’s anatomy. This has a significant potential to increase
the tumor control probability and at the same time reduce the risk for side
effects by sparing healthy tissue. The clinic will also use RayStation® to
perform treatment planning of IMRT treatments and rotational mARC treatments
that are carried out with Artiste linear accelerators from Siemens.

“We are really looking forward to start implementing adaptive radiation therapy
to further improve the precision in our radiation treatments. This requires very
sophisticated software tools and RayStation® really stands out as the best
treatment planning solution on the market for adaptive therapy. I see this as a
starting point of a deep collaboration with RaySearch for both clinical and
research applications”, says Dr. Karsten Eilertsen, Head of Radiotherapy
Physics.

“We have previously sold RayStation® to clinics all over the world but being a
Scandinavian company it is of course an important milestone for us to get our
first RayStation® customer in our home region. Oslo University Hospital is an
excellent clinic with extensive research programs in areas where we are highly
active so I am fully convinced that this will be a very fruitful partnership”,
says Johan Löf, CEO of RaySearch.

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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