Refurbished Medical Imaging Industry Blog

Nobody likes to place calls for medical imaging equipment service. We’d all be much happier if every CT, c-arm, or digital mammo we ever bought worked correctly, 100% of the time, for the rest of our lives. Unfortunately, we live in a world of wear and tear, acts of God, and outright boneheaded moments that create the need for maintenance and repairs. 

My livelihood these days revolves, in part, around selling women's health imaging modalities such as mammography equipment and biopsy tables. These sales, of course, support my personal bottom line, but I continually remind myself that I sell MORE than just products that comprise my paycheck. . . These products save lives.

We often hear questions about MRI rigging costs from our international customers as well as domestic sellers who are responsible for equipment removal costs.  The answer to these questions is, much to their dismay: Every situation is unique.

The X-ray tube is the single most expensive consumable part on a CT. In a way, the tube is the top dog, the big cheese; the king of the CT kingdom. Because of this, it makes sense to gear one’s preventative maintenance toward extending tube life. In the case of Toshiba’s reigning CXB tube series, we’d like to recommend a few things to help your site shout, “Long live the King,” and really deliver on it.

Remember the Pocket Fisherman? The Smokeless Ashtray? Or maybe the RonCo Food Dehydrator? Over the years, Ron Popeil has brought us dozens of great inventions, and many of us laughed about the idea of actually purchasing them; until we wanted a fresh bass to accompany our picnic lunch, or our cigar-smoking boss joined us at dinnertime for a tater tot hotdish, or we dishonored the memory of the late family dog by simply burying it instead of dehydrating it into a durable and decorative canine mummy.

Hummel figurines, Big Mouth Billy Bass, used copies of The Best of Air Supply; eBay can be a great place to find just about anything you might want at a very reasonable price. There’s no doubting that the consumer to consumer selling site has changed the way the world shops, but is it really the best place to buy anything? When it comes to used c-arms and other medical imaging equipment, probably not.

In any business one develops a list of FAQs pretty quickly. I’m sure a LOT of people asked Henry Ford, “How fast will this go?” and even MORE people asked the Warner Brothers, “How come Porky Pig wears a shirt, but not pants?” and TRIPLE the amount of people asked Harry Coover (the inventor of Super Glue), “Is this stuff really permanent?” 

If you're anything like me, you woke up this morning with one burning question on your mind: How am I gonna get the most out of my PET scanner or PET/CT?

Refurbished, used, second-hand, pre-owned… not the best options for underpants; but more and more, a smart choice for medical imaging equipment. However, in many cases, hospitals and imaging centers get too hung up on the word "used" when sometimes it’s more about how the word "used" is used and what it really means. Let’s quickly scan through some common keywords and how they relate and don’t relate to MRI systems on the secondary market.