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Medical physics

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03 Jun 2020
Taken from the June 2020 issue of Physics World where it appeared under the title "Why ultrafast is ultra-good".

Researchers have long sought to observe fast-moving events at ever-higher speeds. Charalampos Tsoumpas explains why our ability to track gamma rays emitted just picoseconds apart could lead to a new generation of medical-imaging devices

I once watched a YouTube video that blew my mind. Created in 2011 by Ramesh Raskar and colleagues at

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