in italy financial resources were devoted to boost innovation in radiotherapy especially in the southern regions in but the inequality in availability of medical technologies has not been fully resolved the density is aboveaverage for both diagnostic and treatment devices in the united states and switzerland and belowaverage for all medical devices in estonia hungary israel poland slovenia spain turkey and the united kingdom greece italy japan and korea have high densities of diagnostic equipment but belowaverage densities for radiotherapy equipment and the czech republic france and the slovak republic with belowaverage densities of diagnostic equipment have high densities of therapeutic equipment