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		maxerickson on Dec 6, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Researchers get 'compact' hard X-ray machine to wo... Dental and bone x-rays appear to require hard x-rays. I believe the novelty here is that the produced x-rays are in a tight range of wavelengths, and that the range can be adjusted.

MisterTea on Dec 6, 2024 [–]

It's high brightness compared to x-rays generated by ramming ~60 kV electrons into a metal target, like tungsten.

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