The InMedica report stated that the FPD mobile C-arm market is expect to grow 54 percent from 2011 to 2016. However, FPD will still remain a small portion of the whole mobile C-arm market since it’s more expensive than image intensifiers.
Sarah Jones, an InMedica analyst, reported that FPD units represented 9 percent of total unit shipments in 2011, which is still a small proportion.
When the first mobile C-arm was manufactured, it couldn’t compare with fixed installed units. But over 50 years later it has become a force to be reckoned with. “This is kind of the paradigm shift, which is currently happening,” says Ziehm’s Herzmann. “Traditionally, the bigger units have been the gold standard, but now this paradigm seems to be shifted onto the image quality counts, whether it’s mobile or fixed.”
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