The X-ray sensitivity of radiology instruments is limited by the materials used in their detectors. A material from the perovskite family of semiconductors could allow lower doses of X-rays to be used for medical imaging. See Letter p.87
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Rowlands, J. Material change for X-ray detectors. Nature 550, 47–48 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1038/550047a
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