About paying attention to FONAR press releases? Do you mean to
say that you actually believe what companies promise, unsubstantiated,
in their press releases.
Unfortunately, I am so ancient and rickity in the medical devices business and patent law stuff, that I recall the very first "FONAR"
press release and Demo. It was a huge fiasco, with Dr. Damadian needing to retract a whole lot of "what we are doing" kind of press release statements. Reporters from the New York area had been invited to a big newly-born-FONAR demonstration, and according to the stories in the paper the next day (must have been in 1977, this time of year) FONAR got caught red-faced,faking the MR pictures and data they said they were scanning real time for the assembled newsmen, and other technically interested types. What I am saying is that, as historical
fact, FONAR has an especially bad reputation for credibility
of its PR output. Just cause a PR says so, that means only that is what FONAR wants to be the accepted "tale", not that it is true.
What I don't comprehend is why FONAR wants to tie itself to
the albatross of its old, ong abandoned, "sweet spot" mechanical scanner, the FONAR method in Damadian's 1982-1988 issued patents. For example, the PR stories regularly lead readers, on the contrary, to infer that the FONAR-scanner is from the original "CAncer" patent filed in 1972. Not so. The 1972 filing has no valid scanner claims, which is why the later patent work, 82-88, was carried out I guess. But FONAR Corp was not the entity pursuing those patents. I am
thorougly beflummoxed by the whole thing! Now the future
for the Corporation is to move ahead into modern niches, isn't it? Why get identified closely with obsolete, questionable technology?
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