Availability and use of diagnostic technologies

Abstract

The availability and use of CT scanners and MRI units have increased rapidly in most European countries over the past two decades, but there remain large differences. Hungary, Romania and the United Kingdom have the lowest number of MRI units and CT scanners per capita among EU countries, whereas Germany, Italy, Greece and Finland have the highest number of MRI units per capita, and Denmark, Greece, Latvia and Germany have the highest number of CT scanners per capita (Figure 7.18 and Figure 7.19).