FONAR To Ring The Nasdaq Stock Market Closing Bell, As It Celebrates 50th Birthday of MRI - Seite 2

Dr. Damadian began FONAR, the world’s first dedicated MRI Company, in 1978, and the Company installed the world’s first commercial MRI in 1980. In 1981 FONAR became a NASDAQ-listed company. The Company, today, is at the Nasdaq Stock Market Closing Bell Ceremony delightedly celebrating the 50th anniversary of the birth of MRI.

* R. Damadian, “Tumor Detection by Nuclear Magnetic Resonance,” Science, Volume 171, pp.1151-1153. This paper was referenced by other Scientist-Authors in the field so frequently that it was recognized as a ‘Citation Classic’ by the Institute for Scientific Information, Philadelphia, PA, whose mission it is to monitor scientific citations.

** U.S. Patent #3,789,832, “Apparatus and Method for Detecting Cancer in Tissue,” (1974) that patented the relaxation differences and their use in medical scanning. It was acknowledged and enforced by the U.S. Supreme Court in 1997. There are currently more than 4,500 patents on MRI issued by the U.S. Patent Office.

About FONAR

FONAR, the Inventor of MR Scanning, located in Melville, NY, was incorporated in 1978, and is the first, oldest and most experienced MRI company in the industry. FONAR introduced the world’s first commercial MRI in 1980, and went public in 1981. FONAR’s signature product is the FONAR UPRIGHT Multi-Position MRI (also known as the STAND-UP MRI), the only whole-body MRI that performs Position Imaging (pMRI) and scans patients in numerous weight-bearing positions, i.e. standing, sitting, in flexion and extension, as well as the conventional lie-down position. The FONAR UPRIGHT MRI often detects patient problems that other MRI scanners cannot because they are lie-down, ”weightless-only” scanners. The patient-friendly UPRIGHT MRI has a near-zero patient claustrophobic rejection rate. As a FONAR customer states, “If the patient is claustrophobic in this scanner, they’ll be claustrophobic in my parking lot.” Approximately 85% of patients are scanned sitting while watching TV.

FONAR has new works-in-progress technology for visualizing and quantifying the cerebral hydraulics of the central nervous system, the flow of cerebrospinal fluid (CSF), which circulates throughout the brain and vertebral column at the rate of 32 quarts per day. This imaging and quantifying of the dynamics of this vital life-sustaining physiology of the body’s neurologic system has been made possible first by FONAR’s introduction of the MRI and now by this latest works-in-progress method for quantifying CSF in all the normal positions of the body, particularly in its upright flow against gravity. Patients with whiplash or other neck injuries are among those who will benefit from this new understanding.