Time Medical Systems, a Hong Kong maker of advanced medical devices co-founded by US-trained Chinese academics, is seeking a new site to expand production as it eyes a 30-fold increase in sales of its magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scanners in the next few years.
In addition to full-body scanners, it has developed speciality machines for infants, breast-cancer screening and brain scans, mainly targeting private screening centres as customers, said Ma Qiyuan, chairman and CEO.
“We should aim to diagnose a tumour when it is soybean-sized, because when it grows to peanut-sized it is already a bit dangerous, and if it is not found until it is egg-sized, then the patient will be unlikely to survive.”
MRI scanners use powerful magnets and radio waves to bring out detailed images of bones, organs, muscles and soft tissues.
