Innovations in Medical Imaging: Technological advances, growth opportunities and future market outlook - 2009/08/01 - Business Insights

Report title: Innovations in Medical Imaging: Technological advances, growth opportunities and future market outlook

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Medical imaging technologies are widely used in clinical diagnosis to guide therapeutic and surgical intervention and to monitor disease progression, recurrence and treatment response and to improve surgical navigation. A plethora of imaging modalities are available to the medical community to provide anatomical and functional information. Extensive research indicates that the application of medical imaging may lead to significant reduction in healthcare costs by increasing the speed of diagnosis, avoiding the need for expensive treatments and surgical procedures and reducing mortality rate through early screening programs. During the last few years there have been a number of dramatic changes within the medical imaging as companies face tough economic and the initiation and implementation of new legislation. The emerging markets provide strategic opportunities for sustainable growth as patient demographics change, economies grow and healthcare coverage expands to increase the purchasing power of the individual.Meanwhile reimbursement and regulation remain the two major stumbling blocks in the development of innovative medical imaging agents, which are currently subjected to 'drug-likeâ? criteria and rigorous standard operating procedures. However a better reward system that pays for getting the best patient results will ensure the right technologies are applied to get the right answer and outcome.

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Title	Starting Page	Number of Pages
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Table of Contents Innovations in medical imaging Executive Summary 10 Introduction 10 Current issues in medical imaging & recent breakthroughs 11 Challenges, opportunities & regulations 11 Market, trends & future directions 12 Chapter 1 Introduction 16 Wha	0	1
Table of Contents	0	1
Innovations in medical imaging	0	1
Executive Summary 10	0	1
Introduction 10	0	1
Current issues in medical imaging & recent breakthroughs 11	0	1
Challenges, opportunities & regulations 11	0	1
Market, trends & future directions 12	0	1
Chapter 1 Introduction 16	0	1
What does medical imaging encompass? 17	0	1
Anatomical & functional imaging 20	0	1
Why is medical imaging of value to the pharmaceutical industry? 21	0	1
Applications of medical imaging in drug R&D 23	0	1
Leading imaging modalities 26	0	1
X-Ray 27	0	1
Computed tomography 28	0	1
Magnetic resonance imaging 30	0	1
Functional MRI 31	0	1
Optical near-infrared fluorescence imaging 32	0	1
Ultrasound 34	0	1
Nuclear medicine 35	0	1
Positron Emission Tomography 35	0	1
Single Photon Emission Computed Tomography 38	0	1
Other imaging modalities 40	0	1
Video imaging 40	0	1
Comparison of imaging modalities: in vivo & ex vivo applications 41	0	1
Advantages & disadvantages of imaging modalities 42	0	1
Therapeutic applications 43	0	1
Cancer 44	0	1
Breast cancer 45	0	1
Colorectal cancer 46	0	1
Cardiovascular disease 46	0	1
Coronary artery disease 46	0	1
Stroke 47	0	1
Other cardiovascular conditions 47	0	1
Gastrointestinal conditions 48	0	1
Orthopedics & osteoporosis 48	0	1
CNS and thoracic trauma 48	0	1
Therapeutic conclusions 48	0	1
Chapter 2 Current issues in medical imaging & recent breakthroughs 52	0	1
Pre-processing & post-processing issues 53	0	1
Artifacts 54	0	1
Noise 58	0	1
Noise & artifact reduction 58	0	1
Raw data acquisition & image reconstruction 58	0	1
Image enhancement & portioning 59	0	1
Conclusions on imaging issues 60	0	1
Breakthroughs in medical imaging 60	0	1
Novel imaging agents 62	0	1
CT imaging agents 62	0	1
MRI imaging agents 63	0	1
Ultrasound imaging agents 64	0	1
PET & SPECT imaging agents 65	0	1
Imaging agent conclusions 67	0	1
Novel scintillator & detectors 68	0	1
Multimodality imaging devices 69	0	1
SPECT-CT & PET-CT hybrids 69	0	1
Spectral CT 72	0	1
High field MRI 73	0	1
Conclusions on imaging breakthroughs 75	0	1
Chapter 3 Challenges, opportunities & regulations 78	0	1
Geographical challenges & opportunities 80	0	1
US market growth & legislative impact 80	0	1
International markets and changing dynamics 82	0	1
Urbanization and rise of the emerging markets 85	0	1
Patient demographics: therapeutic dynamics 87	0	1
Technical Challenges & Opportunities 89	0	1
Molecular imaging 90	0	1
Molecular imaging probes 92	0	1
Regulatory support 93	0	1
Molecular imaging consortia 93	0	1
Imaging task forces 94	0	1
Targeted and multifunctional imaging agents 96	0	1
Nanotechnology 96	0	1
Nano-enabled delivery 97	0	1
Nano imaging materials 97	0	1
Targeted contrast agents 98	0	1
Multifunctional imaging agents 98	0	1
Novel imaging modalities 99	0	1
Magnetic Particle Imaging 99	0	1
PET-MRI 102	0	1
Real-time whole animal imaging 103	0	1
Multi-spectral opto-acoustic tomography 106	0	1
Computer assisted imaging & virtual surgery 107	0	1
Virtual surgery 108	0	1
Breakthrough conclusions 109	0	1
Reimbursement & regulations 109	0	1
Overall conclusions 111	0	1
Chapter 4 Market trends & future directions 114	0	1
The medical imaging market 115	0	1
Leading manufacturers of medical imaging equipment 116	0	1
Leading healthcare companies 119	0	1
GE Healthcare, New York, US 119	0	1
Hitachi Medical Corporation, Tokyo, Japan 119	0	1
Philips Medical Systems, Amsterdam, The Netherlands 120	0	1
Siemens Medical Solutions, Berlin & Munich, Germany 120	0	1
Toshiba Medical Systems Corporation, Tokyo, Japan 121	0	1
M&A activity 122	0	1
Recent market trends 125	0	1
Global trends in medical imaging 125	0	1
Technological trends in imaging equipment 126	0	1
Imaging agents & nanotechnology 126	0	1
Image-guided radiation therapy and patient selection 127	0	1
Future directions 128	0	1
Molecular imaging & diagnostics 128	0	1
Medical imaging informatics and networking 129	0	1
Medical imaging and virtual reality 130	0	1
Summary & overall conclusions 131	0	1
Chapter 5 Appendices 134	0	1
Primary research methodology 134	0	1
Companies involved in medical imaging 135	0	1
Glossary 136	0	1
Acknowledgements 141	0	1
Index 142	0	1
Bibliography & Endnotes 143	0	1
List of Figures	0	1
Figure 1.1: Medical imaging uses a spectrum of wavelengths 17	0	1
Figure 1.2: Medical imaging technologies 19	0	1
Figure 1.3: Imaging techniques and their uses 22	0	1
Figure 1.4: Medical imaging in the drug discovery & development process 24	0	1
Figure 1.5: X-ray of a skull a) anterior-posterior and b) lateral view 27	0	1
Figure 1.6: Computed tomography of the head a) coronal section and b) sagittal section 28	0	1
Figure 1.7: X-ray imagers 29	0	1
Figure 1.8: Evolution of CT imaging 30	0	1
Figure 1.9: Magnetic resonance imaging of the head 31	0	1
Figure 1.10: Functional magnetic resonance imaging of the brain 32	0	1
Figure 1.11: Multispectral imaging of the arm (700-900 nm range) 33	0	1
Figure 1.12: Ultrasound image of a baby in-utero 34	0	1
Figure 1.13: Principles of PET imaging 36	0	1
Figure 1.14: Fused PET/CT image of anatomy and function 37 Figure 1.15: SPECT detection 39 Figure 1.16: video imaging 40 Figure 1.17: Therapeutic application of medical imaging 44 Figure 1.18: Therapeutic applications of medical imaging 49 Figure 2.19: Med	0	1

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