Managed Care - January 2008 - (Page 35) Fonar Heritage The Inventor of MR Scanning Timeline, Inventor Contributions The world’s first MR scanner, (Downstate Medical Center, 1977) Smithsonian Institution, Permanent Collection 1969 Original Idea for MR Scanner (Grant Application to Health Research Council of the City of New York)1* 1969 Realizes Need for a Compelling Application to Justify Building Human Scanner. Decides on Cancer Detection1,2 1970 Key Discovery Makes the MRI Possible3 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)4 Spring 1971 First Ever Scanning Method Proposed (Downstate Reporter)5,6,7 March 1972 First MR Patent Filed (3D Serial Voxel Scanning Method). Patent Issued 1974.8 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 MRI Image at T-8 9,10,11,12 Upright Scan of Scoliosis Patient with the Fonar Dynamic™ Upright ® MRI. A Life-Saving And More Revealing Alternative The Fonar Dynamic™ Upright® MRI provides a life-saving and more revealing way to evaluate and monitor scoliosis. With X-ray, a patient has a PA and lateral radiograph two or three times a year. With the Fonar Dynamic™ Upright MRI ®, a scoliosis examination is completed in 5 to 10 minutes. The images provide coronal, sagittal and axial views of the spine – with no radiation. The 3-plane visualizations are achieved by 3-D acquisition with curved multi-planar reconstruction. Both the Cobb angles and the angular rotation of the vertebrae are measured. Time and Cost The Same As For X-Ray The protocol for radiation-free monitoring of scoliosis by the Fonar Dynamic™ Upright® MRI can be performed in the same amount of time and at the same cost as X-ray monitoring. It is imperative that every hospital and practice performing scoliosis examinations consider providing their patients with the radiation-free choice that is finally available because of the unique benefits of the Fonar Dynamic™ Upright® MRI. 1980 Fonar Installs First Commercial MRI; Initiates MRI Industry13 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)14 *Documents at www.fonar.com Special Offer for Physicians. Free book about the discovery of the MRI: A Machine Called Indomitable by Sonny Kleinfield, Reporter for The New York Times, Times Books. Call Fonar to order: 631-694-2929. “This book is the account of the development of NMR technology and a profile of one man, Dr. Raymond Damadian, who dreamed of NMR as a weapon against cancer and struggled almost obsessively against great odds to build the first human scanner Indomitable.” – Library Journal Positional Imaging: One Side of the Fonar Dymanic TM Upright ® MRI Removed for Photography. For the scanner nearest you, for additional information or to purchase a Fonar Dynamic™ Upright ® MRI, call and ask to speak to a sales representative at 1-888-NEEDMRI (1-888-633-3674). 1 “Breast Cancer Mortality After Diagnostic Radiography: Findings from the U.S. Scoliosis Cohort Study,” Michele Morin Doody, John E. Lonstein, Marilyn Stovall, David G. Hacker, Nicolas Luckyanov, and Charles E. Land, Spine, Aug. 15, 2000, Vol. 25, No. 16. http://www.fonar.com http://www.fonar.com
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