LEADING RADIOLOGIST BUYS 11TH AND 12TH FONAR UPRIGHT(TM) MRI
AND AGREES TO PURCHASE FOUR MORE
MELVILLE, NEW YORK, July 24, 2007 - FONAR Corporation
(NASDAQ-FONR), The Inventor of MR Scanning(TM), reported
today that Sana Khan, M. D., Ph.D., a leading radiologist
and Chairman of TrueMRI, headquartered in Anaheim,
California, has purchased two more FONAR UPRIGHT(TM) MRIs
and has agreed to purchase four more. The two purchases were
part of the group of seven sales in the announcement of July
10 that did not elaborate on the buyers themselves and the
reasons they gave for purchasing FONAR's UPRIGHT(TM) Multi-
Position(TM) MRI and the specific need it meets in their
particular clinical practice. For more information on
TrueMRI, visit: www.truemri.com
Dr. Khan said, "We founded TrueMRI with the mission to
leverage emerging medical technologies that break the
boundaries of traditional diagnostic imaging, and to capture
pathology with precision. That is why we selected the FONAR
UPRIGHT(TM) MRI as the centerpiece for our business. It
enables TrueMRI to deliver True Positives and True Negatives
of a patient's True Condition."
"Our first UPRIGHT(TM) MRI was installed in Southern
California in June 2002," continued Dr. Khan. "At that time,
it was our premise that position and weight-bearing impact a
patient and consequently the radiology reading. Now we have
seen thousands of cases where the differences are
undeniable."
Dr. Khan continued, "We have performed over 50,000
Positional MRIs and I believe we have more experience than
anyone else in the application and interpretation of
weight-bearing kinetic MRI. The freedom of the design and
application of the technology allows patients to be scanned,
not only in a weight-bearing position, but also in lateral
flexion, rotational and flexion/extension studies. Often
pathology is revealed that would otherwise be undiagnosed.
The only MRI machine in the world that does all that is the
FONAR UPRIGHT(TM) MRI."
"TrueMRI has created innovative applications and software
that allows us to provide our referring physicians with
anatomical measurements needed for clinical decisions in
their practice. TrueMRI can also perform AMA Impairment
Rating measurements on images obtained with the FONAR
UPRIGHT(TM) MRI . This is a great benefit in medico-legal
cases where the doctors need to perform very tedious and
time consuming measurements on flexion and extension images.
Previously, this could only be done with x-rays, but that
did not reveal the soft tissue anatomical relationship to
the bony structures, and it also involved radiation. This is
one of numerous innovations that the UPRIGHT(TM) MRI has
allowed us to do," stated Dr. Khan.
"Our passion is to provide evidence-based, objective
analysis of an injury by quantifying the patient's pathology
through our proprietary software revealing the `true state'
of a patient's anatomy," said Dr. Khan.
"Another important reason why we continue to purchase FONAR
MRIs is the support and service that we receive from FONAR.
The machine is an absolute work-horse and the applications,
services and the daily interactions that take place with
FONAR have allowed us to grow our business without any major
interruptions," exclaimed Dr. Khan.
About FONAR
The 2007 National Inventor of the Year Award was presented
to president and founder Raymond Damadian, M.D., by the
Intellectual Property Owners Education Foundation
(www.ipoef.org) for the INVENTION of the FONAR UPRIGHT(TM)
Multi-Position(TM) MRI (also known as the STAND- UP(TM)
MRI). It's the world's only whole-body MRI that scans
patients in numerous weight-bearing positions, i.e.,
standing, sitting, flexion, extension, and lateral bending,
as well as the conventional lie-down position. An abundance
of peer-reviewed literature reporting the essentiality of
Upright Imaging for accurately diagnosing the human body can
be found at: www.uprightmripublications.com and
www.fonar.com/research_index.htm
With one half million patients scanned, the patient-friendly
FONAR UPRIGHT(TM) Multi-Position(TM) MRI has a near zero
claustrophobic rejection rate by patients. Approximately 85%
of patients are scanned sitting while they watch a 42" flat
screen TV. Another MRI, the FONAR 360(TM), is a room-size
recumbent scanner that optimizes openness while facilitating
physician access to the patient.
FONAR has the most accomplished history of any company in
MRI. The company's heritage helps to document the quality of
its products and distinguishes it from all other MRI
companies. A timeline of its achievements follows. It
includes the groundbreaking discovery of the principle that
makes MRI imaging possible, the patent for the first MRI,
and the sale of the world's first MRI.
1969 - Original Idea for MR Scanner (Grant Application to
Health Research Council of the City of New York)
1969 - Realizes Need for a Compelling Application to Justify
Building Human Scanner. Decides on Cancer Detection
1970 - Key Discovery Makes the MRI Possible Discovery of the
marked T1 and T2 signal differences among the normal tissues
and also between the normal tissue and cancer tissue.
Discovery enables soft-tissue detail previously absent from
medical imaging, and early cancer detection; used today to
detect cancers worldwide. "NMR developed into a laboratory
spectroscopic technique capable of examining the molecular
structure of compounds, until Damadian's ground-breaking
discovery in 1971." MRI From Picture to Proton, Cambridge
University Press, 2003)
March 1971 - First Article Published (Science)
Spring 1971 - First Ever Method Proposed (Downstate
Reporter)
March 1972 - First MR Patent Filed (3D Serial Voxel Scanning
Method). Patent Issued 1974. 1976 - The Struggle Begins.
Expert Declares, "Any further discussion of scanning the
human body by MR (NMR) is visionary nonsense."
1976 - Construction of First Human MR Scanner Commences
1977 - Construction Completed; First Human Scan Achieved:
Thoracic Image at T-8
1980 - FONAR Installs First Commercial MRI; Initiates MRI
Industry
1997 - Patent Upheld by High Court on U. S. Patents and the
U. S. Supreme Court. (1.1 Million Pages of Documentary
Evidence Scrutinized and Argued; No Prior Art)
2001 - Introduction of the FONAR UPRIGHT(TM) Multi-
Position(TM) MRI
2007 - National Inventor of the Year Award for the
UPRIGHT(TM) Multi-Position(TM) MRI.
More about the FONAR UPRIGHT(TM) Multi-Position(TM) MRI.
The FONAR UPRIGHT(TM) Multi-Position(TM) MRI is a dramatic
advance over all other MRI's, which can only scan the
patient in a recumbent- only, non-weight-bearing position.
The UPRIGHT(TM) allows the patient to be imaged upright,
with the weight of the body on the spine.
Most patients are scanned sitting, while they enjoy watching
TV. Patients can also be scanned in flexion, extension,
rotation, as well as lying down. This positional imaging
allows surgeons and radiologists to see patients in the
position of their symptoms. Studies and physician experience
show that diagnosis using the FONAR UPRIGHT(TM) changes
surgical protocols and provides better surgical outcomes in
approximately 20% of the cases.
The FONAR UPRIGHT(TM) Multi-Position(TM) MRI is also
unrivaled in patient comfort. It has a near zero
claustrophobic rejection rate by patients. It can scan obese
patients who cannot fit into a recumbent MRI, and it allows
imaging of children while they sit in their mother's lap.
Over a half million patients have been scanned by the FONAR
UPRIGHT(TM) MRI.
To date, 152 UPRIGHT(TM) MRIs have been sold. The
superiority of the technology is achieving wider recognition
every day.
Another New FONAR MRI: The FONAR 360(TM)
FONAR has invented another breakthrough MRI, the FONAR
360(TM). It's a room-size recumbent scanner that optimizes
openness while facilitating physician access to the patient
during surgery.
FONAR is headquartered on Long Island, New York, and has
approximately 400 employees.
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The Inventor of MR Scanning(TM), Full Range of Motion(TM),
STAND- UP(TM), UPRIGHT(TM), pMRI(TM), Multi-Position(TM),
True Flow(TM), and The Proof is in the Picture(TM) are
trademarks of FONAR Corporation.
Be sure to visit FONAR's Website for product and investor
information: www.fonar.com
