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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2022 Apr 1.
Published in final edited form as: Lancet Oncol. 2021 Mar 4;22(4):e136–e172. doi: 10.1016/S1470-2045(20)30751-8

Table 2.

Number of scanners per million inhabitants by country income group

CT MRI SPECT PET
High-Income Countries
Highest value 42.3 34.3 20.5 4.3
Upper Quartile (75th percentile) 32.7 19.2 9.7 2.5
Mean 38.8 27.3 18.2 3.6
Median 20.5 12.6 5.4 1.2
Lower Quartile (25th percentile) 14.4 8.5 2.4 0.6
Minimum value 6.3 0 0 0
Interquartile range (IQR) 24.4 18.8 15.8 3
Standard deviation (SD) 16 10.4 7.5 3.4
Upper-Middle-Income Countries
Highest value 29.8 16 5.2 0.7
Upper Quartile (75th percentile) 16.2 7.2 2.5 0.4
Mean 12.1 5.4 1.6 0.3
Median 7.8 3.4 0.9 0.2
Lower Quartile (25th percentile) 4.8 1.3 0 0
Minimum value 0 0 0 0
Interquartile range (IQR) 11.4 5.9 2.5 0.4
Standard deviation (SD) 10.1 4.8 1.8 0.5
Lower-Middle-Income Countries
Highest value 7.8 3.3 0.9 0.2
Upper Quartile (75th percentile) 3.9 1.4 0.4 0.1
Mean 4.3 1.1 0.3 0.2
Median 1.4 0.4 0.1 0
Lower Quartile (25th percentile) 0.9 0.1 0 0
Minimum value 0 0 0 0
Interquartile range (IQR) 3 1.3 0.4 0.1
Standard deviation (SD) 3.2 1.2 0.3 0.3
Low-Income Countries
Highest value 1.1 0.3 0.05 0
Upper Quartile (75th percentile) 0.9 0.2 0.03 0
Mean 0.69 0.2 0.04 0
Median 0.4 0.07 0 0
Lower Quartile (25th percentile) 0.2 0 0 0
Minimum value 0 0 0 0
Interquartile range (IQR) 0.7 0.2 0.03 0
Standard deviation (SD) 0.8 0.5 0.1 0

Data source: IMAGINE Database49