X-Rays have been in use as a medical imaging technique since 1895 when Wilhelm Roentgen found that he was able to create images of internal bodily structures such as bones and tissues by putting electromagnetic waves through the body. He called the project X because he did not fully understand what made up the rays. X-Rays have been the building block upon which medical imaging technology and equipment for medical imaging have been constructed. Although the X-Ray (or radiograph) has long been a basic medical imaging tool, this approach has always had the drawback that the images produced are not exact. The images require extremely careful analysis and interpretation. Scientists have been researching for years in an attempt to find a way to make the radiographic images better. Recent findings in the growth of laser X-Ray's have led to advancements that have the capability to completely change the quality of radiographic images. The light created by a laser would be very bright, so bright it could make distinct and strong contrasts on radiographic images. Moreover, grouping the candle power of a laser beam with X-Rays may produce better photos by a factor of around 1,000. Medical imaging that could make the picture that much better might give us the resources to find abnormalities and cancers that you can not detect right now with our technology. Up until recently, the power source required to generate the right strength laser beam for this invention was so massive that it was unrealistic to even try. However, researchers at the University of Colorado in Boulder have created a method to generate mighty laser beams from a reasonably sized source of power. This makes laser X-Ray technology a reachable reality. The team that is researching this used a laser beam to send out atoms from argon, a highly stable chemical element. The emission of X-Rays was not strong enough to be of use. The research group then shot the atoms right back at the argon which made a bigger, more agreeable ray of X-Rays of big enough size to be of use. This boomerang method is now being fingered to generate a regular, very mighty source of X-Rays, grouped with laser beams. The method is not yet ready for use in the medical field. More studying is necessary to extend the method into the hard X-Ray region of the electromagnetic spectrum. When the task at hand has been overcome, the commercial laser X-Ray will follow.
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