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An easy-to-swallow pill monitors X-ray dosage

Device could enable doctors to calibrate the treatment of people receiving radiotherapy for certain tumours.
Swallowable multimodal X-ray dosimeter.

An X-ray dosimeter is encapsulated in a pill small enough to be swallowed. Credit: B. Hou et al./Nature Biomed. Eng.

A tiny pill-like device can measure how much X-ray radiation is being delivered to gastrointestinal tumours during radiotherapy1.

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Nature 616, 632 (2023)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-023-01284-7

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  1. Hou, B. et al. Nature Biomed. Eng. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41551-023-01024-2 (2023).

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