Design Disadvantage
Given the vastly larger size and low production volume of the EBT design, only about 120 exist in the world, as of 2004, vs. thousands of more conventional design CT machines.
This CT scanner design has remained more expensive, by over double, than the more widely sold CT design in which a small, more conventional X-ray tube is mechanically spun.
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