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CONSIDERABLE progress has already been made towards high resolution in radioautography, and good results have been obtained by various workers with the Ilford peeling film technique of Pelc1, the NTB stripping method of Boyd2 and the ‘wet-process’ system of Gomberg3. Lately, I have shown4 that, by using thick layers of nuclear emulsions (300µ), and avoiding background effects by placing the specimens in a coal mine at a depth of 600 metres5, it is possible to follow the β-particle tracks to their origin and obtain a one-micron resolution.
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LIQUIER-MILWARD, J. Electron Microscopy and Radioautography as Coupled Techniques in Tracer Experiments. Nature 177, 619 (1956). https://doi.org/10.1038/177619a0
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