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PET Prostate Scan Volumes See Robust Growth in 2022 according to IMV’s 2023 PET Market Summary Report

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IMV’s 2023 PET Market Summary Report explores market trends in U.S. hospitals and imaging centers, including procedure volume, manufacture-installed base features and share, the use of OEM vs. third-party service providers, purchase plans, brand loyalty, radiopharmaceutical usage and site operations characteristics. The report was published in March 2023 and is based on responses from 386 radiology/departmental administrators and clinicians who participated in IMV’s nationwide survey from August 2021-September 2022. Vendors covered in this report include Bracco, Canon, Cardinal Health, GEHC, Jubilant, Philips, Siemens and SOFIE. The finding summaries follow.

PET prostate scan volumes increased 46% year-over-year, showing an increase of 3 percentage points to 9% of the overall procedure mix by study type, according to the newly published IMV 2023 PET Market Summary Report.

After a 12.2% increase in overall PET scan volume in 2021, PET scan volume remained flat year-over-year in 2022. However, the change in volume of PET scans varied by site type, with less than 400 bed hospitals having a 25% increase in scan volume, non-hospital sites seeing a 10.9% decrease and 400+ bed hospitals remaining flat in 2022.

Looking ahead, 47% of PET imaging sites anticipate their scan volumes will increase over the next 12 months, 44% volumes to stay the same and 1% anticipate a decrease.

Pertaining to radiopharmaceutical usage, 82% of PET scans used F-18-FDG, 7% used Rb-82 and all other agents made up the remaining 11%.

In 2022, 30% of sites were considering the purchase of a PET scanner over the next three years. Of planned system purchases in 2022, 92% will be equipped with a digital detector. The top OEMs being considered for future PET system purchases are Siemens with 64% of mentions, GEHC with 54%, Philips with 8%, Canon with 4% and United Imaging with 2%.

Regarding patient wait times for non-emergency outpatient PET scans, the overall median wait time is 6 days, with 29% of sites having a median wait time of less than 3 days. Independent PET sites have the shortest median wait time of 3 days, and 400+ bed hospitals, less than 200 bed hospitals and hospital-owned PET centers have the longest, with a median wait time of 7 days.

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