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Published online 28 July 2009 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news.2009.744
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Nanotubes sharpen X-ray vision
Mini X-ray tubes could revolutionize radiotherapy — and airport baggage scanners.
It's taken more than a century, but X-rays are finally getting a shake-up. A new way of generating them uses carbon nanotubes and could allow real-time three-dimensional scanning.
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