Research and Markets has added the "Medical Imaging Market Report: 2011 Edition" report to their catalogue.
The medical imaging market symbolizes the largest sub-division of the global medical equipment market. The different kinds of medical devices include imaging and monitoring, implants, in-vitro diagnostics, surgical equipments, healthcare informatics and others. Medical imaging solutions include computed tomography, fluoroscopy, magnetic resonance imaging, mammography, nuclear medicine, positron emission tomography, ultrasound and X-ray.
The research report has revealed that the global medical imaging market, which has been growing continuously over the years, will advance even further.
Radiology formed the largest share of the global medical imaging market in 2010 by application, and ultrasound formed the largest segment by modality. The US has been seen as the largest territorial medical imaging market, however, enormous growth opportunities have been seen in countries like Japan and China. Over the years, China’s contrast agent market has also been extending.
Some of the important factors that drive the medical imaging market include aging population, growing chronic diseases, inflation in private expenditure per head and urbanization. Accelerated technological improvement has been gradually happening in the medical imaging market and because of this advancement many new imaging devices are being designed.