Table 3.

equipment/population ratio comparisons

		Units per million people
		CT	Mammography	MRI	General X-ray	Fluoroscopy	SPECT gamma camera
Ghana (this study)		1.46	1.17	0.57	14.41	1.24	0.03
Other African countries	Egypt			2.00
	Kenya	0.80	0.50
	South Africa	5.03	4.96	2.90	34.80	6.60
	Tanzania	0.42	0.31	0.09	9.02	1.00
	Uganda	0.60	0.50		9.60	0.80
	Zambia	0.79	1.22	0.24	14.30	0.55	0.06
	Zimbabwe	1.50	0.80	0.50	26.00	0.80
OECD data, 2015 or nearest year	Belgium		36.57
	Brazil	15.34		6.76
	Canada	15.01	18.05	9.48
	Germany	35.09		33.63
	Greece		65.97
	Iceland	39.30	16.81	21.16
	Israel	9.79		4.06
	Italy	33.31	33.83	28.24
	Japan	107.17	34.32	51.69
	Korea	37.03	61.57	26.27
	Lithuania	21.00	15.75	11.02
	Mexico	5.92	9.73	2.39
	New Zealand	17.84	19.70	13.27
	United Kingdom	9.46		7.23
	United States of America	40.98	65.26	39.00
	OECD average	25.72	24.34	15.94

CT: computed tomography; MRI: magnetic resonance imaging; SPECT: single-photon emission computed tomography; OECD: organization for economic co-operation and development