Materials science has benefited from X-ray imaging at the micrometre scale, but imaging has been restricted to two dimensions. A clever modification takes us into the third dimension.
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Cargill, G. Extra dimension with X-rays. Nature 415, 844–845 (2002). https://doi.org/10.1038/415844a
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