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Brendon Nafziger, DOTmed News Associate Editor | October 18, 2012
Also, many new CT scanners are finding homes outside the radiology departments: some end up in radiation oncology for treatment planning, surgical suites for intraoperative CT imaging, and the emergency room for trauma cases. But this requires serious calculations on expected utilization rates.
"You certainly do not want to install a $1 million device where it's going to be used twice a day," Maliff said.
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