X-ray detectors used in medicine have a glass core that makes them fragile, heavy, and unwieldy. The future is looking lighter for X-ray detectors thanks to researchers at Holst Centre in The Netherlands, imec in Belgium, and Philips who have been working on a medical quality detector that uses a plastic substrate. The device provides dynamic, high-contrast images at 25 frames per second and a 200 pixels per inch resolution. The plate itself is 160 x 120 pixels in size, but could be made bigger for clinical applications.
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