Fonar deploys 45th MRI unit

Fonar Corp. said this week that it has installed its 45th Stand-Up magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) system. In the past fiscal year, from July '03 - June '04, the company said it has installed 25 Stand-Up MRIs as compared to the previous fiscal year from July '02 - June '03 when it installed 13.

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