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Polarean Imaging plc (AIM: POLX), the medical‑imaging technology company, with a proprietary drug‑device combination product using hyperpolarised xenon-129 gas to enhance magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) in pulmonary medicine, announces that it has conditionally raised total gross proceeds of £2.0 million through the Open Offer announced on 15 March 2021, representing the full amount proposed under the Open Offer.

Accordingly, the Company has conditionally raised total gross proceeds of approximately £27.0 million (before expenses) in aggregate by way of the Placing, Subscription and Open Offer.

Applications have been made to the London Stock Exchange for the admission of 44,932,142 New Ordinary Shares to trading on AIM. This comprises: (i) 2,484,425 Firm Placing Shares; (ii) 12,515,571 Conditional EIS/VCT Placing Shares; (iii) 4,530,666 Subscription Shares; (iv) 22,135,991 Conditional General Placing Shares; and (v) 3,265,489 Open Offer Shares. The New Ordinary Shares will rank pari passu with the Existing Ordinary Shares.

Admission of the Firm Placing Shares occurred on 31 March 2021. Admission of the Conditional EIS/VCT Placing Shares is expected to occur on 7 April 2021 with admission of the Conditional General Placing Shares, Subscription Shares and Open Offer Shares expected to occur on 8 April 2021. Admission of all of the New Ordinary Shares other than the Firm Placing Shares is subject to Shareholders passing the Resolutions at the General Meeting to be held today.

Richard Hullihen, Chief Executive Officer of Polarean, commented: "Our thanks go to the shareholders that participated in this Open Offer, which has resulted in a total of £27 million gross proceeds being raised in this significantly over-subscribed fundraising. The net proceeds of the Fundraise will allow us to prepare for commercialisation and launch post approval of our proprietary drug-device combination in the United States, and we are very excited to pursue this next chapter in the Company’s journey."

Following admission of the Firm Placing Shares on 31 March 2021, the Company's issued total ordinary share capital comprises 166,117,636 Ordinary Shares, which may be used by Shareholders as the denominator for the calculations by which they will determine if they are required to notify their interest in, or a change to their interest in, the voting rights of the Company under the FCA's Disclosure Guidance and Transparency Rules.

Unless otherwise stated, the capitalised terms used in this announcement have the same meanings as in the announcement of the Transaction made by the Company on 15 March 2021.

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About Polarean (www.polarean.com)

The Company and its wholly owned subsidiary, Polarean, Inc. (together the "Group") are revenue generating, medical drug-device combination companies operating in the high resolution medical imaging market.

The Group develops equipment that enables existing MRI systems to achieve an improved level of pulmonary function imaging and specialises in the use of hyperpolarised Xenon gas (¹²⁹Xe) as an imaging agent to visualise ventilation and gas exchange regionally in the smallest airways of the lungs, the tissue barrier between the lung and the bloodstream and in the pulmonary vasculature. Xenon gas exhibits solubility and signal properties that enable it to be imaged within other tissues and organs.

In October 2020, the Group submitted a New Drug Application (“NDA”) to the FDA for hyperpolarised ¹²⁹Xe used to evaluate pulmonary function and to visualise the lung using MRI. In December 2020, the Group received confirmation of acceptance of its NDA by the FDA, with a target PDUFA action date of 5 October 2021.

The Group operates in an area of significant unmet medical need and the Group's technology provides a novel diagnostic approach, offering a non-invasive and radiation-free functional imaging platform which is more accurate and less harmful to the patient than current methods. The annual burden of pulmonary disease in the US is estimated to be over US$150 billion.

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