Executive Summary

• Executive Summary

Market Overview

• Introduction
• Market Engineering Analysis
• Market and Technology Trends
• End User Trends
• Total Revenue Forecast
• Revenue Breakdown by High-Mid-Low Segmentation
• Revenue Breakdown by Open-Closed Segmetation
• Competitive Analysis
• Product Analysis
• Installed Base Analysis
• Procedural and Utilization Analysis
• Research Methodology

Industry Challenges

• Impact of Industry Challenges
• Conquering New Markets While Preserving Existing Ones Threatens Brand Loyalty
• Advantages of Competing Imaging Technologies Threaten MRI Utilization
• Declining Return-on-Investment for End-Users Threatens Revenues for Manufacturers
• Market Puts Pressure on Manufacturers to Bring High-Field Open MRI Products to Market Faster
• Lack of ACR Accreditation Limits Reimbursements from Some Insurers

Strategic Recommendations

• Strategies Overview
• Differentiate MRI Products to Increase Market Penetration
• Accelerate Development and Introduction of Competing Open High-field MRI Systems
• Develop MRI Applications for the Emergency Room to Increase Market Penetration
• Advocate for Reimbursement of a Wider Range of MRI Applications
• Develop Comfortable and Economical MRI Systems

Frost & Sullivan Market Engineering Awards

• Product Differentiation Innovation Award: Fonar
• Market Engineering Leadership Award: GE Medical Systems
• Market Penetration Award: Hitachi Medical Systems America
• Product Innovation Award: ONI
• Technology Innovation Award: Siemens Medical Solutions

High-Field MRI Equipment

Mid-Field MRI Equipment

Low-Field MRI Equipment

Open MRI Equipment

Closed MRI Equipment