Welcome
to the Fonar Upright® Multi–Position™ MRI.
Don't
settle for a partial view of your spine.
Ask your doctor to
see the view of your spine in which you experience your problem
-- sitting, standing, bending, or lying
down.
Advantages
of The Fonar UPRIGHT® Multi–Position MRI
1.
Symptom–Specific Positional Scanning–Only
With The Fonar UPRIGHT® Multi–Position™ MRI
Advanced design allows the FONAR
Upright® MRI
to scan you in the position you experience your problem—sitting,
standing, bending, leaning, as well as lying down. All other
MRIs can only scan you while you’re lying down.
2. Scanning With The Weight Of Your Body
On Your Spine And Other Joints
The Upright™ MRI allows all parts of the body to be imaged
with the normal weight of your body on the spine and other joints—an
advantage that leads to a more accurate diagnosis. Imaging your
spine when it is fully loaded with the weight of your body, as
compared to unloaded in a conventional lie–down MRI, is
critical to an accurate diagnosis. As you can see by the following
images,
many back problems are “missed” when the spine is
not bearing the weight of the body and not imaged in the positions
the spine normally occupies.
A New Technology for Better Diagnosis
Now, a new technology is available that provides better diagnosis of your problem.
Until now, all MRI exams were done with the patient lying down in a static
position. But the Fonar Upright® Multi-Position MRI™ allows a dynamic
MRI exam to be done in whatever position you experience your problem. Does
positional imaging really make a difference? Yes, it does. The prestigious
UCLA School of Medicine recently did a study that reveals the “miss rate” of
static MRI, compared to patient problems detected with Dynamic™ MRI.
The study was done using the Fonar Upright® Multi-Position™ MRI.
LANDMARK STUDY BY UCLA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE OF
OVER 1,000 PATIENTS (1,302)
QUANTIFIES THE "MISS RATE" OF STATIC MRI*
(Static MRI is defined by UCLA as being scanned in one position,
sitting straight up. It does not include being scanned in multiple
positions, such as flexion (bending forward), extension (bending
backward), lateral bending, or rotation.)
The Findings Could Substantially
Improve Surgical Outcomes For Back Pain
L4-5 is the area of the lumbar spine, or
lower back, where most back problems occur (“Miss
Rate” 35.1%). L3-4 is the second most frequent location
of back problems (“Miss Rate 38.7%).
Table 1
% Spondylolistheses " Missed" by
Static MRI
40° Flexion
Overall "Miss
Rate"
40° Flexion
Minimum Slip
L2-3
L3-4
L4-5
L5-S1
L1-2
to L5-S1
3mm
30.8%
38.7%
35.1%
4%
18.1%
4mm
33.3%
53.8%
17.9%
3.5%
12.3%
10° Extension
10° Extension
L2-3
L3-4
L4-5
L5-S1
L1-2
to L5-S1
3mm
25%
20.8%
14%
3.2%
8.9%
4mm
33.3%
25%
4.2%
2.4%
5.0%
Table 2
Position Eliciting Disc Bulge
% Cervical Disc Bulges Greater Than or Equal
to 2mm "Missed" in
the Neutral Sit Position But Seen on Flexion or Extension
Two Fonar Case Studies That Illustrate Problems "Missed" with
Static MRI but Detected With Dynamic Upright MRI.
Recumbent
(Static)
Upright
(Dynamic)
Recumbent
(Static)
Standing Flexion
(Dynamic)
To schedule a scan or to learn more,
call 1-888-NEEDMRI (1-888-633-3674)
Answers For Your Doctor
Many physicians are familiar with the advantages of the Fonar
Upright® Multi–Position™ MRI.
But the advanced technology is relatively new, so your doctor may say a conventional
lie-down MRI is good enough. But no other MRI can see your problem in the position
you experience it. Fonar images are indistinguishable from images made with
conventional MRIs. Here’s how you can prove it to your
doctor. Show
him these side-by-side images and ask him to tell you which ones were made
with the Fonar UPRIGHT® and which ones were made with a 1.5 Tesla MRI.
To learn the correct answers, he or she is invited to call us toll-free at
1-888-NEEDMRI.
More
Advantages of The Fonar UPRIGHT® Multi–Position
MRI
3.
Unrivaled Comfort; Watch TV During Your Scan You simply walk in, sit down, and watch TV during
your scan. You are not slid into the usual tube. This open
comfort is especially good for people who are claustrophobic.
4. World’s
First Radiation-Free Diagnosis and Evaluation of Scoliosis The National Cancer Institute reports a 70% higher
incidence of breast cancer among women who had scoliosis
as children and were scanned multiple times a year to evaluate
the condition. The Fonar Upright® MRI offers the first
radiation-free monitoring and the end of later-life breast
cancer due to overexposure to spine x-rays.
5. Scans Children, Who
Sit In Their Mother’s Lap; Usually Requires No Anesthesia
And Avoids Exposure Of Children To X-Rays
6.Scans Overweight Patients
THE PROOF
IS IN THE PICTURE™
More Cases Where the Patient’s Problem was “Missed” Lying
Down But Seen UPRIGHT®
Case 1
Here
are two scans of a patient with low back pain. The patient had surgery
but the pain and symptoms continued to get worse. The image on the left
was made with the patient lying down. It shows a normal alignment of
the
vertebrae.
The
image on
the right, which was done Upright®, revealed that the patient
had a dramatic spinal instability that the lying–down scan did
not reveal and that the first surgery did not address. Following visualization
of
the spinal dislocation seen by the UPRIGHT® MRI, the patient underwent
surgery a second time. The patient has been pain free ever since.
(Images courtesy of M. Rose, MD; Rose Radiology
Centers)
*22nd Annual Meeting of the North
American Spine Society (NASS), the University of California,
Los Angeles, (UCLA) School of Medicine, results of a
study of 1,302 patients imaged in the FONAR UPRIGHT® Multi-Position™ MRI
[The Spine Journal 7(2007) 1S-163S, October 23-27, 2007,
Austin, Texas].
