The Eurozone economic slowdown has made it difficult for hospitals, particularly in Southern Europe, to procure new imaging modalities. With streamlined budgets and escalating number of medical procedures, the need to spend less on technologies while gaining the maximum benefit from them has sustained demand for high-quality refurbished imaging equipment. As a result, refurbished systems are now preferred across most imaging departments, including nuclear medicine, mammography and minimally invasive surgeries in private hospitals. Frost & Sullivan’s Analysis of the European Refurbished Medical Imaging Equipment Market finds the market earned revenue of $417.6 million in 2012 and estimates this to reach $582.3 million in 2019. 

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