CORALVILLE, Iowa, June 4, 2010 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Vivakor, Inc. (OTCBB:VIVK) today announced the Company has reduced its long and short term debt by an additional $510,000 by converting those debts to shares of common stock. This substantial debt reduction through conversion to stock finalizes the acquisition payments for Health America Inc. and the VIVASLICES MRI software technology, which the company purchased in August of 2008. VIVASLICES is a software technology which increases image resolution of previous generations of MRI units, thereby saving hospitals and clinics with older equipment millions of dollars in costs related to purchasing new MRI units with enhanced image resolution capacity.