News tagged with journal of synchrotron radiation


A Kinoform's Best Friend: Diamond Refractive Lenses for Nanofocusing

A Kinoform's Best Friend: Diamond Refractive Lenses for Nanofocusing

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Aug 03, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (4) | comments 2

(PhysOrg.com) -- A team of Brookhaven and Argonne National Laboratory researchers has demonstrated a reliable path for sculpting an intricate x-ray focusing lens out of diamond. Their technique, which was ...


Tomography with the Compact Light Source

A miniature synchrotron for your home lab

Physics / General Physics

created Jan 07, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (4) | comments 0

In 2004 Lyncean Technologies announced the construction of the Compact Light Source (CLS), a miniature synchrotron which uses inverse Compton scattering to produce high-intensity, tunable, near-monochromatic ...





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Synchrotron light unveils oil in ancient Buddhist paintings from Bamiyan

Synchrotron light unveils oil in ancient Buddhist paintings from Bamiyan

Physics / General Physics

created Apr 22, 2008 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (38) | comments 1

The world was in shock when in 2001 the Talibans destroyed two ancient colossal Buddha statues in the Afghan region of Bamiyan. Behind those statues, there are caves decorated with precious paintings from ...


Bacterium helps formation of gold

Bacterium helps formation of gold

Physics / Condensed Matter

created Oct 07, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (8) | comments 0

Australian scientists have found that the bacterium Cupriavidus metallidurans catalyses the biomineralisation of gold by transforming toxic gold compounds to their metallic form using active cellular mechan ...


Rare pancreatic cancer patients may live longer when treated with radiation therapy

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Nov 20, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Radiation therapy is effective in achieving local control and palliation in patients with pancreatic neuroendocrine tumors (PNTs), despite such tumors being commonly considered resistant to radiation therapy, according to ...


Radiologists find a technique to significantly reduce patient radiation dose during CT angiography

Medicine & Health / Other

created Sep 21, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Radiologists have discovered that prospective electrocardiogram (ECG) gating allows them to significantly reduce the patient radiation dose delivered during computed tomography (CT) angiography, a common noninvasive technique ...


X-Rays for Early Alzheimer's Disease Detection

Medicine & Health / Research

created Jun 15, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory have demonstrated a new, highly detailed x-ray imaging technique that could be developed into a method for early diagnosis of Alzheimer’s ...


IGRT may improve outcomes for obese prostate cancer patients

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Sep 02, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Moderately to severely obese prostate cancer patients may have improved treatment outcomes when treated with image-guided radiation therapy (IGRT) over traditional external beam radiation therapy (EBRT) because IGRT corrects ...


Under Observation -- Restless Atoms Cause Materials to Age

Under Observation -- Restless Atoms Cause Materials to Age

Physics / Condensed Matter

created Sep 14, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (10) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Atoms have the habit of jumping through solids - a practice that physicists have recently been able to follow for the first time using a brand new method. This scientific advance was made ...


New Finding Opens Path for Designing Novel Complex Oxide Nanomaterials

New Finding Opens Path for Designing Novel Complex Oxide Nanomaterials

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Oct 11, 2007 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (24) | comments 0

A University of Arkansas researcher and his colleagues have found a novel way to "look" at atomic orbitals, and have directly shown for the first time that they change substantially when interacting at the ...


PSA value at 2 years post-treatment can predict long-term survival in prostate cancer patients

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Dec 02, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Prostate cancer patients who have a prostate-specific antigen (PSA) value of less than or equal to 1.5 at two years after external beam radiation therapy (EBRT) are less likely to have a cancer recurrence and cancer-related ...


Most radiation oncologists utilize advanced medical imaging techniques, study suggests

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Nov 25, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

A recent study shows that 95 percent of radiation oncologists use advanced imaging techniques such as positron emission tomography (FDG-PET), magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), and 4-dimensional computed tomography (4DCT) ...



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