Polarean Partners with VIDA to Streamline Adoption of Advanced MRI of the Lungs

Two best-in-class lung imaging companies combine expertise for the deployment of a new xenon 129 MRI platform.

Durham, NC and London, Sept. 08, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Polarean (AIM: POLX), a commercial-stage medical device leader in advanced magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of the lungs, announced today it has partnered with VIDA Diagnostics (VIDA), a clinical imaging intelligence company providing medical imaging software solutions which manage the complexities of digital biomarkers.  The companies are partnering to develop solutions that further enable the Polarean xenon 129 MRI platform to accelerate clinical and research use.

VIDA has empowered more than 1,000 clinical and research sites globally with its imaging management platform, a cloud-native AI-enabled solution that drives standardization and efficiencies in clinical trial imaging operations. The platform includes a unique orchestration engine used to integrate and optimize multimodality clinical algorithms and enable new high-quality imaging biomarkers to be more accessible to researchers, and clinical trials, as well as adopted into the clinical care workflows.

The collaboration between Polarean and VIDA intends to support the integration of xenon 129 MRI workflow into the clinical continuum of care, to establishing a clinical trial network for pharma-sponsored drug and device development using standardized xenon 129 MR image acquisition and data-sharing methods, and to create automated image processing workflows and algorithms.  These new products and services will be utilized to expand access to xenon 129 MRI as a lung imaging service and to investigate new indications and biomarkers in broader populations with unmet medical needs. Additionally, through this collaboration, each company will foster new research collaborations and amplify the opportunities it can bring to its lung imaging customers.

“Polarean continues to cultivate partnerships with entities that enhance our core capabilities.  We are excited to form this partnership with VIDA, a world-renowned organization in the field of lung imaging software platform solutions and biomarker development, to capitalize on their complementary expertise,” said Christopher von Jako, Ph.D., CEO of Polarean.  “Furthermore, this partnership perfectly aligns with our objective of extending the reach of XENOVIEW MRI, to provide tools to physicians that treat patients suffering from chronic lung disease.”