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s0rce 3 months ago | parent | context | favorite | on: FLASH radiotherapy's bold approach to cancer treat...

Won't the effective index of all materials be basically 1 for the high energy electrons involved here?

hinkley 3 months ago [–]

Seems not in this case. But I believe the use case was deep brain tumors, like the hippocampus, where any beam alignment problems could be life altering.

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