Written By: Malacostracan, any member of the more than 29,000 species of the class Malacostraca (subphylum Crustacea, phylum Arthropoda), a widely distributed group of marine, freshwater, and terrestrial invertebrates. Lobsters, crabs, hermit crabs, shrimp, and isopods are all malacostracan crustaceans.
As a result, the cost per technical RVU for the two modalities was reversed, with a low cost basis ($17.69) for MR imaging and a nearly fivefold higher cost basis ($89.03) for interventional radiology. Indeed, it was this observation that led us to compare costs on a per examination basis.
Siemens estimate the cost of operating MRI machine with a 1.5T to be around $ 300,000 a year (Keefer, 2011). This includes cost of acquiring and a technologist to operate the machine, cost of power and maintenance cost. The salary for an MRI radiologist ranges between $ 50,000 and 60,000 a year (Keefer, 2011).