Refurbished equipment supplier Block Imaging plans to launch a mobile imaging business on June 1.
The new business will be called Cube Mobile Imaging and will fill what Block describes as a "growing demand of U.S. healthcare providers for interim medical imaging scanning capabilities."
Cube's MRI options will include Siemens Healthineers' Espree, Aera, and Viato (the latter is scheduled to be deployed in late 2023) as well as GE HealthCare's HD Series. Its CT fleet will include Siemens Perspective and GE's VCT and Optima 660 systems.
Siemens Healthineers and Chicago-based health system CommonSpirit Health on May 24 agreed to acquire Block Imaging earlier this month.
![Images show the pectoralis muscles of a healthy male individual who never smoked (age, 66 years; height, 178 cm; body mass index [BMI, calculated as weight in kilograms divided by height in meters squared], 28.4; number of cigarette pack-years, 0; forced expiratory volume in 1 second [FEV1], 97.6% predicted; FEV1: forced vital capacity [FVC] ratio, 0.71; pectoralis muscle area [PMA], 59.4 cm2; pectoralis muscle volume [PMV], 764 cm3) and a male individual with a smoking history and chronic obstructive pulmonary disorder (COPD) (age, 66 years; height, 178 cm; BMI, 27.5; number of cigarette pack-years, 43.2, FEV1, 48% predicted; FEV1:FVC, 0.56; PMA, 35 cm2; PMV, 480.8 cm3) from the Canadian Cohort Obstructive Lung Disease (i.e., CanCOLD) study. The CT image is shown in the axial plane. The PMV is automatically extracted using the developed deep learning model and overlayed onto the lungs for visual clarity.](https://img.auntminnie.com/mindful/smg/workspaces/default/uploads/2026/03/genkin.25LqljVF0y.jpg?auto=format%2Ccompress&crop=focalpoint&dpr=2&fit=crop&h=167&q=70&w=250)
