Item 1.01               Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement

 

        On November 26, 2007, Vital Images, Inc. (the “Company”) and Toshiba Medical Systems Corporation (“Toshiba”) entered into Amendments No. 1 and 2 to the Marketing and Distribution Agreement between the Company and Toshiba (the “Amendments”).  The Amendments amend the Marketing and Distribution Agreement dated March 30, 2007 (the “Original Agreement”) between the Company and Toshiba.  Under the Original Agreement, Toshiba offers Vitrea® software, the Company’s advanced medical imaging software for diagnostic evaluation of computed tomography (CT), magnetic resonance (MR) and positron emission tomography (PET) image data, through its subsidiaries and distributors in more than 50 countries in North and South America, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, Australia and Asia.  The Amendments to the Original Agreement (as amended, the “Toshiba Agreement”) expanded the Territory (as such term is defined in the Toshiba Agreement) into which Toshiba may market and distribute the Company’s products to include Japan.  In addition, the Toshiba Agreement provides that the Company will provide advanced visualization and analysis solutions for Toshiba’s newly-launched AquilionONE™ dynamic volume CT scanner.

 

 

Section 9 — Financial Statements and Exhibits

 

Item 9.01               Financial Statements and Exhibits

 

(d)           Exhibits.

 

The following exhibit is being furnished with this Current Report on Form 8-K and is hereby incorporated by reference:

 

99.1         Press Release of Vital Images, Inc. dated November 26, 2007.

 

 


SIGNATURES

 

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized.

 

 

Vital Images, Inc.

 

 

Date: November 26, 2007.

 

 

 

 

By

/s/ Michael H. Carrel

 

Michael H. Carrel

 

Chief Financial Officer and Chief Operating Officer

 

(Principal Financial Officer)