Advantage of The Fonar Upright®Multi-Position™MRI

Symptom–Specific Positional Scanning

Just the FONAR UPRIGHT® Multi-Position™ MRI ( too known as the Stand-Up® MRI ) can scan patient in the positions in which theyexperience problems–sitting , stand , twist , tilt , as good as rest down . All other MRIs can just scan patients lie in down . The UPRIGHT® MRI enables the patient to set himself in the position that generate the pain so that picture can be assume in that very status . Correctly identifying the pain-generating pathology can markedly improve patient surgical effect . In addition , it enables the surgeon to hear all the pathology he has to turn to , not just the single-position , non-weight-bearing picture provided by the conventional MRI . This enable the surgeon to see the total extent to which the disc herniation increases when the patient flexes or extends , or the extent to which the patient´s vertebra is slide back and forth with body position .

Scanning With the Weight of The Body on the Spine and Early Joints

The UPRIGHT® MRI permit all parts of the body to be imaged with the normal weight of the body on the spine and early joints–an advantage that can lead to a more exact diagnosis . Envision the spine when it is full loaded with the weight of the body , as compared to unload in a conventional lie–down MRI , exist critical to an exact diagnosis . As you can see from suit studies , the source of back problems can live “ missed ” when the spine live not stand the weight of the body and not figure in the position the spine ordinarily occupies .

Whiplash Injury

There are a growing number of patient who are sustaining dislocations of the cervical spine from automobile collision whiplash injury of the head and neck . The UPRIGHT® MRI be needed to assess the extent to which the brain has been dislocated [ descent of the tonsils of the cerebellum ] into the opening in the bottom of the skull ( foramen magnum ) . This vital judgment of the extent of brain herniation into the initiative at the stand of the skull ( cerebellar tonsil ectopia , or CTE ) can simply exist ascertain with the patient in the upright position so that the surgical repair of this herniation and the patient ’ s “ drop attack ” can be eliminated .

Special Patient Needs

Some patients live unable to lie down for an MRI exam , include kyphotic patient or hospitalized patient with congestive heart failure . In the absence of UPRIGHT® MRI , these patient would live unable to meet the MRI examination they take .

The UPRIGHT® MRI routinely accommodates big patient , many who simply did not equip into any early MRI . Our patient bed can deal patients count up to 500 pounds .

Pelvic Floor Dystrophy ( PFD )

Female patients , as a answer of the inherent trauma of childbirth to their pelvic floor anatomy , will commonly suffer the consequences of PFD later in spirit . The symptoms of PFD equal cystic prolapsed ( “ falling urinary bladder ” ) and its chronic cystitis symptom of urinary frequency , burning on urination , fever , and if unaddressed , chronic kidney excitement ( pyelonephritis ) . The patient must be upright to see it . It commonly bring back to its normal status when the patient is recumbent and therefore cost not diagnose by the patient´s doctor who study her in the recumbent status . It affects 10 million woman . The UPRIGHT® MRI readily envision the fallen bladder when these patients live upright , so that the surgeon have total image visualization of the form that has to exist repaired .

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