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The Attrius PET scanner has just hit the market. 2009 numbers were pre-Attrius. I believe these sell for around $1 million/per unit.

Notes from a recent healthimaging.com article:

Report: Molecular imaging market valued at $5B; future of PET looks bright

The molecular imaging market is currently valued at approximately $5 billion, with half of the revenue being generated in North America alone, according to a market research report from Espicom Business Intelligence.

The outlook for the use of PET products is far more positive, according to the market analysis. “Not only has there been an increase in the number of PET procedures being undertaken due to the lack of SPECT radiopharmaceutical availability, demand for PET is also rising as a result of the CMS decision in 2009 to expand reimbursement coverage for the use of FDG-PET in several new cancers, and to increase reimbursement rates for cardiac myocardial perfusion PET imaging by 20 percent.”

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