Madam Chair, perhaps I could just go into the mechanism of producing a bone scan. A bone scan is produced on a gamma camera; a bone scan with fluoride is produced on a PET camera. A gamma camera doing bone scans all day would not be able to do more than 10, maybe 12 bone scans in a day. A PET scanner with current technology can do something between 10 to 15 scans in a day--that's with modern technology scanners. Therefore, a department that is doing 40 to 50 bone scans a day would have typically five scanners dedicated to bone scans. It would then have scanners dedicated to all the other work and the cardiac work.
I'm not aware of any centre in Canada that is capable of doing 50 bone scans a day. Certainly we do bone scans flat out, and we do 15 to 20 cancer patients a day on two cameras.