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Computed Tomography (CT) Systems Market Worldwide
Marketstrat, Inc., May 2009, Pages: 265
Key Topics:
Product definitions, applications and types of scanners, market trends, strategies, competition, key players, forecasts, market drivers and restraints, opportunities. For details, see Table of Contents and Highlights
Report Summary:
The United States market for computed tomography (CT) scanning systems is estimated to touch $3.6 billion by the end of 2009. The US accounts for over 50.0 percent of the market. Cardiac imaging is a fast expanding CT application due to its utility in emergency medicine, perfusion studies and CT angiography.
While hospitals started out as the original care site where scanning was done, independent imaging centers and physician’s offices offering scanning have become widespread in the US over the last decade. With the advent of portable and mobile CT scans, access and availability of this imaging modality has increased significantly. Rural hospitals and those with smaller budgets are now able to offer CT and other medical imaging to patients who previously had to travel elsewhere for this service. Currently it is estimated that about 25% of scanning stations are in private practices and imaging centers that are not part of a hospital. Most hospitals have a range of scanners from low-slice to high-slice. The overall trend is towards acquiring high-slice scanners which can be similar in terms of capital costs but far superior in function.
Many European countries including the UK and France, are using mobile CT due to the high capital equipment costs. Emerging medical markets in developing nations such as India and China also provide good growth opportunities for CT, as economic growth, healthcare spending and population size drive demand for high technology. Refurbished CT scanners account for a large majority of sales in these countries. While demand is set to grow in these countries, unit shipments are likely to stay static in the coming years. Overall growth in medical imaging technologies will also fuel growth in picture archiving and communication systems (PACS) and radiology information systems (RIS).
Utilization rates are highest in the US and Japan, with an estimated 80 scanners per million people in the US versus about 90 scanners/ million people in Japan. The US has over 20,000 installed CT scanners. It is estimated that almost 69 million CT scans were done in the US in 2007. One of the fastest growing applications is CT angiograms, currently at an annual rate of about half a million in the US. Pediatric usage is also growing. An estimated 6 million CT scans per year are done for pediatric cases. Of these, about 600,000 are done for head and abdominal examinations.
Cardiology and Radiology fields are at the forefront of this technology, although the high-resolution, dynamic volume images are finding new applications in trauma and women’s health, etc.
Key players are GE, Siemens, Toshiba, and Philips
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