First Clinical Results From Stand-Up MRI To be Presented; Forum of World Renowned Radiologists to be Held at World's Largest Medical Show.

Business/Medical Editors

MELVILLE, NY--(BW HealthWire)--Nov. 22, 2000

FONAR Corporation (NASDAQ-FONR), The Patient-Friendly(TM) MRI Company, announced that it would be hosting special presentations of the first clinical results from Indomitable(TM), the Company's new Stand-Up MRI(TM), at the annual meeting of the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) next week. The RSNA exhibit, the world's largest medical show, is being held in McCormick Place in Chicago from November 26th through December 1st.

Professor J. Randy Jinkins, MD, a world renowned authority on radiology of the spine, will make daily presentations of First Clinical Results of pMRI(TM) (Positional MRI(TM): Stand-Up MRI(TM)) at the FONAR exhibit. An open clinical Forum for attending physicians will follow each presentation for the discussion of the uses and benefits of positional MRI(TM) (pMRI(TM)). Participating Forum scholars will include Professor William G. Bradley, Jr., MD, PhD, FACR, Director of MRI, Long Beach Memorial Medical Center and Professor of Radiology at the University of California; and Professor Francis W. Smith, MD, Professor of Musculoskeletal Radiology, Grampian University Hospitals, Aberdeen, Scotland.

The FDA granted FONAR permission to market Indomitable(TM), the Stand-UP MRI(TM) this past October. This new scanner is the only one in the world that can perform MRI examinations on patients in upright or standing positions. It can also scan patients in any of the conventional lie-down positions. With Indomitable(TM), physicians will now be able, for the first time, to visualize anatomy in the normal functional position, i.e. upright and weight bearing.

Raymond Damadian, president and chairman of FONAR Corporation, said, "We are very pleased to have MRI scholars and leading authorities of international reputation discussing and answering questions about the first results of positional MRI(TM) (pMRI(TM)). Having seen Dr. Jinkins' results, we expect these sessions to generate a great deal of interest in this product. After all, positional MRI(TM) (pMRI(TM)) is adding an entirely new dimension to the field of diagnostic imaging - exquisite anatomic visualization in the very positions in which the patient may be symptomatic - something never before seen."

In January, Professor Randy Jinkins, MD, FACR, a research neuroradiologist, will assume the post of Director of Neuroimaging Research at the Health Science Center, State University of New York, in Brooklyn, New York. Professor Bradley, a noted author, is well known for his text Magnetic Resonance Imaging (co-authored with David Stark, MD). Now in its third edition, this definitive work is used by diagnostic MRI radiologists and radiology students all over the world. Professor Smith is also the head of MRI at Woodland Hospital in Aberdeen. He has been working in the field of MRI since 1980 when he introduced the world's first diagnostic MRI service at the Aberdeen Royal Infirmary.

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