Fonar Stand-Up MRI sales climb to 90

TriMed Staff | | Health Imaging | Diagnostic Imaging
Fonar Corp. has sold 43 Stand-Up magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scanners over the 12-month period ending June 2004, representing an 87 percent increase in sales when compared to the 23 units sold in the year ago period.

Fonar said that total Stand-Up MRI sales now stand at 90. FONAR sold 14 Stand-Up MRIs in the fourth quarter of FY04 compared with 11 sales during the corresponding fourth quarter of FY03.

The Stand-Up MRI has the added ability to scan patients upright, either standing or sitting. This featured is called Position Imaging (pMRI) and Fonar said the technology can detect pathology missed on conventional, lie-down scanners.

TriMed Staff

Related Content

AI rules out abnormal findings on chest X-rays, significantly reducing workloads
Older adults among the walking wounded with incident TBI
Philips moves digital pathology to the cloud with AWS
PHOTO GALLERY: What does fetal medical imaging look like?
Speaker laments radiology’s major contribution to climate change
Radiologist accuracy takes a hit overnight, especially with advanced imaging exams

Around the web

Cardiovascular Business
Global shortage of nuclear imaging isotopes may be over

The nuclear imaging isotope shortage of molybdenum-99 may be over now that the sidelined reactor is restarting. ASNC's president says PET and new SPECT technologies helped cardiac imaging labs better weather the storm.

Cardiovascular Business
‘A huge win’: CMS significantly increases Medicare payments for cardiac CT

CMS has more than doubled the CCTA payment rate from $175 to $357.13. The move, expected to have a significant impact on the utilization of cardiac CT, received immediate praise from imaging specialists.

Cardiovascular Business
FDA clears AI tool that flags signs of heart disease in chest CT scans

The newly cleared offering, AutoChamber, was designed with opportunistic screening in mind. It can evaluate many different kinds of CT images, including those originally gathered to screen patients for lung cancer. 

Design by Adaptive Theme
Trimed Popup
Trimed Popup