CHELMSFORD, Mass., Oct. 26, -- Mercury Computer Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: MRCY) announced that it received the 2005 Frost & Sullivan Award for Product Innovation for its VisageRT™ advanced 3D image and visualization software.

The Frost & Sullivan Award for Product Innovation is presented annually to the company that has demonstrated excellence in new products and technologies within its industry. The 2005 Award recognizes Mercury's development of the VisageRT software, which enables accelerated, embedded reconstruction, and visualization of medical image data generated by a variety of diagnostic and interventional imaging tools such as Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI), Computed Tomography (CT), and digital X-ray.

The new generation of multi-slice and multi-channel medical imaging modalities brings great advantages for physicians in performing heart scans as well as scans of large 3D volumes by drastically increasing the amount of image data that can be acquired within a heartbeat or while patients can hold their breath. However, this also leads to an explosion of the image data acquired for a single study. This challenging problem has been overcome with the development of the VisageRT product family.

VisageRT exploits commercial Graphics Processing Units (GPUs) to enable easy and highly accelerated reconstruction and visualization of very large data volumes, leading to faster acquisition times, or allowing the modality vendors to use more advanced reconstruction algorithms to improve image quality.

"Mercury is honored to receive the 2005 Frost & Sullivan Award for Product Innovation," said Marcelo Lima, vice president of Commercial Imaging and Visualization at Mercury. "It is a significant acknowledgement of the performance we designed into our VisageRT solution, and of the company's overall commitment to product innovation in medical imaging."

The award will be presented at the 2005 Best Practices Awards Banquet today in Phoenix, Arizona.

For more information on VisageRT products, visit Mercury at www.mc.com/VisageRT.

About Mercury Computer Systems, Inc.

Mercury Computer Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: MRCY) is the leading provider of high-performance embedded, real-time digital signal and image processing solutions. Mercury's solutions play a critical role in a wide range of applications, transforming sensor data to information for analysis and interpretation. In military reconnaissance and surveillance platforms, the company's systems process real-time radar, sonar, and signals intelligence data. Mercury's systems are also used in state-of-the-art medical diagnostic imaging devices including MRI, PET, and digital X-ray, and in semiconductor imaging applications including photomask generation and wafer inspection. Mercury provides advanced 3D image processing and visualization software and optimized systems to diverse end markets including life sciences, geosciences, and simulation. The company also provides Radio Frequency (RF) products for enhanced communications capabilities in military and commercial applications.

Based in Chelmsford, Massachusetts, Mercury serves customers in North America, Europe, and Asia through its direct sales force and a network of subsidiaries and distributors. Visit Mercury on the Web at www.mc.com.