Upright MRI Research

FONAR is currently conducting research studies in a number of areas including Cerebrospinal Fluid Flow (CSF) Studies, Correlated Slice Protocol (CSP) and Scoliosis screening.

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UPRIGHT VERSUS SUPINE MRI: Effects of Body Position on Craniocervical CSF Flow Muccio M¹, Chu D², Minkoff L², Kulkarni N², Damadian B², Damadian RV², Ge Y^2,3 (1) Bernard and Irene Schwartz Center for Biomedical Imaging, Department ofRadiology, NYU Grossman School of Medicine,New York, NY (2) FONAR Corporation, Melville, NY, USA. (3) yulin.ge@nyulangone.org Fluids and Barriers of the CNS (2021) 18:61
PELVIC FLOOR DYSFUNCTION ARTICLE Harpreet Pannu, MD Assoc. Prof.of Radiology Johns Hopkins University Womens Imaging Online http://womensimagingonline.arrs.org/item.cfm?itemID=155
UPRIGHT POSITIONAL MRI OF THE LUMBAR SPINE F. Alyasa, D. Connella, A. Saifuddin London Upright MRI Centre London, UK Dept.of Radiology, The Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital CLINICAL RADIOLOGY (2008) 63, 1035-1048
NEW IN VIVO MEASUREMENTS OF PRESSURES IN THE INTERVERTEBRAL DISC IN DAILY LIFE Hans–Joachim Wilke, PhD, Peter Neef, MD, Marco Caimi, MD, Thomas Hoogland, MD, and Lutz E. Claes, PhD SPINE VOLUME 24, NUMBER 8 PP 755-762
STATIC VS DYNAMIC MRI ON THE THE UPRIGHT MRI The Spine Journal/UCLA abstracts (2007 NASS Meeting
Inserts for Spine Journal (above): CASE EXAMPLES OF UCLA REPORTED "MISSED" BY STATIC MRI. DETECTED BY FONAR SPONDYLOGRAPHY
Inserts for Spine Journal (above): “LANDMARK INDEPENDENT STUDY BY UCLA” OF MORE THAN 1000 PATIENTS REVEALS THE MISS RATE OF STATIC MRI.
“DYNAMIC MRI OF THE LUMBAR SPINE IN THE UPRIGHT POSITION MODIFIES PATIENT MANAGEMENT” F. Smith, MD (Radiologist) University of Aberdeen SPINEWEEK (2008) PRESENTATION ABSTRACT
DYNAMIC IMAGING OF THE SPINE WITH AN OPEN UPRIGHT MRI: PRESENT RESULTS AND FUTURE PERSPECTIVES OF FMRI J.P. Elsig, MD EUR J ORTHOP SURG TRAUMATOL)
ACQUIRED DEGENERATIVE CHANGES OF THE INTERVERTEBRAL SEGMENTS AT AND SUPRAJACENT TO THE LUMBOSACRAL JUNCTION. A RADIOANATOMIC ANALYSIS OF THE NONDISCAL STRUCTURES OF THE SPINAL COLUMN AND PERISPINAL SOFT TISSUES J. Randy Jinkins, M.D. EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF RADIOLOGY 50 (2004) 134—158
SEATED MRI INCREASES INSIGHT INTO DEGENERATIVE DISC DISEASE: A STUDY OF 320 PATIENTS Francis W. Smith, MD AMERICAN SOCIETY OF SPINE RADIOLOGY 2005 Meeting Abstracts
UPRIGHT, WEIGHT–BEARING, DYNAMIC–KINETIC MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING OF THE SPINE–REVIEW OF THE FIRST CLINICAL RESULTS . J.R. Jinkins, MD., et. al. JOURNAL OF THE HONG KONG COLLEGE OF RADIOLOGISTS 2003; 6:55-74.
UPRIGHT, WEIGHT-BEARING, DYNAMIC-KINETIC MRI OF THE SPINE . J.R. Jinkins MD., et. al. RIVISTA DI NEURORADIOLOGICA 15: 333-356, 2002. (PDF)
UPRIGHT, WEIGHT-BEARING, DYNAMIC-KINETIC MRI OF THE SPINE: PMRI/KMRI J.R. Jinkins MD. J. Dworkin, PhD. A chapter in the textbook SPINAL RESTABILIZATION PROCEDURES (PDF) (Edited by D.L. Kaech and J.R. Jinkins) publiser: Elsevier Science B.V. (2002)(Chapter 6:pp.73-82)