Melville, NY, 5 July 2007:
FONAR Corporation (NASDAQ-FONR), The
Inventor of MR Scanning™ reported today that
London Upright MRI has purchased its second FONAR UPRIGHT™
Multi-Position™ MRI. The unit is expected to be
placed in the United Kingdom, where there are already two UPRIGHT
Multi-Position MRI scanners.
This sale adds to the eight Fonar UPRIGHT™
Multi-Position™ MRI scanners currently installed
in Europe.
London Upright MRI Centre was founded by Dr.
Edward Shelton. Dr. Shelton said, “We have been
operating the London Upright MRI Centre for nearly a year and find it to be
a very successful venture. We are currently the only UPRIGHT™
Multi-Position™ MRI in London and have decided to
take advantage of this opportunity by beginning the process of placing a
second into the United Kingdom.”
Mr. St.John Brown, Managing Director of the
London Upright MRI Centre, said, “Our Upright MRI
has two unique advantages. The first one is the ability to image patients in
a weight-bearing position. For spine patients and their physicians, being
scanned in the UPRIGHT™ MRI is essential.
Professor Francis W. Smith from the Center for Spinal Research at the
University of Aberdeen, Scotland says that ‘in
just over 30% of the patients we find things that are not evident in the
recumbent position, and these are findings that the surgeon must know about
before commencing surgery.’ Our findings agree
with Dr. Smith’s. We find that a patient’s
problem is often missed on a single-position recumbent MRI before coming to
us.”
“The
second significant advantage of the Upright MRI scanner,”
Mr. St.John Brown continued, “is its extreme
openness for claustrophobic and anxious patients. One patient, Ms. Sally
Jones, a past World Champion at Womens’ Real
Tennis said, ‘As I suffer from mild
claustrophobia, the very thought of sliding into the narrow, enclosed
aperture of an MRI scanner, brings on palpitations and panic.’
After completion of her Upright MRI scan, she enthusiastically explained
‘for once no sweat, no panic.’
For more about the Sally Jones case, as reported in the Daily Mail, visit:
www.uprightmri.co.uk/mail.html
Dr. Shelton continued, “London
Upright MRI Centre is blessed to have such a magnificent scanner. Its no
surprise to me that just last month, the FONAR UPRIGHT™
Multi-Position™ MRI was chosen for the
‘National Inventor of the Year Award.’
About The London Upright MRI Centre
The London Upright MRI Centre is at Julia
House, 44 Newman Street, in London, England W1T 1QD, close to Harley Street,
the most famous medical address in England. The Web site is:
www.uprightmri.co.uk/
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™
Multi-Position™ MRI (also known as the STAND-UP™
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
