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CT Scanner

An empty CT Scanner machine at a hospital.

The CT machine has an X-ray tube and X-ray detectors on opposing sides of a ring that spins around the platform that the patient lies on. This platform also slides through the ring and the ring can move around, so the X-ray beams can follow a spiral path.

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