FONAR Sells 61st Stand-Up MRI To Northern New Jersey Imaging Center And 10th Multi-Unit Purchaser
MELVILLE, N.Y.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--12/18/2003--FONAR Corporation (NASDAQ-FONR), The MRI Specialist(TM), announced today the sale of its 61st Stand-Up(TM) MRI to Dynamic Medical Imaging, LLC. The scanner, which will be installed in northern New Jersey, is the second Stand-Up(TM) MRI purchased by Dynamic. The sale of the first unit, which will be installed in Queens, New York, was announced by FONAR on December 1, 2003. Dynamic Medical Imaging is now the 10th multi-unit Stand-Up(TM) MRI customer.
Steven Brownstein, M.D., a board-certified radiologist and president of Dynamic Medical Imaging, said, "The purchase of a second Stand-Up(TM) MRI underscores my firm belief in Upright(TM) imaging technology. I have been an owner and/or medical director of numerous imaging centers in New York and New Jersey since 1997, so I know fairly well what referring physicians and patients want and need. Only the Stand-Up(TM) MRI can see, for the first time in medical imaging history, all the soft tissues of patients in their positions of pain. This will provide essential diagnostic information to referring physicians, enabling them to treat their patients more effectively."
"At the same time," continued Dr. Brownstein, "the Stand-Up(TM) MRI provides a dramatically improved level of patient comfort. This is particularly important to us at Dynamic Medical Imaging, where we always have the patient in mind." With Stand-Up(TM) MRI facilities going into northern New Jersey and in Queens, New York, Dynamic Medical Imaging hopes to service a large part of the metropolitan New York area."
The Stand-Up(TM) MRI, FONAR's Upright(TM) imaging system, is the world's only whole-body MRI scanner with the ability to perform Position(TM) Imaging (pMRI(TM)), i.e. patients can be scanned standing, sitting, bending or lying down. With its unique ability to scan patients in weight-bearing postures, the FONAR Stand-Up(TM) MRI has identified pathologies that had gone undetected on conventional, lie-down MRI scanners.
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MRI Specialist, Stand-Up, Upright, Position Imaging and PMRI are trademarks of FONAR Corporation.
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SOURCE: FONAR Corporation
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