The tax will hit everything they sell, from x-ray machines and pacemakers to surgical tools and artificial hips.
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The research combining observations from multiple X-ray satellites is expected to give astronomers better insight into what may be happening inside the dust-cloaked disks of young stars.
New data from the Chandra X-ray Observatory indicates that this distorted supernova remnant potentially hosts the youngest black hole in our galaxy.
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It had been taken -- in a bag containing the sweater -- from a security checkpoint near the X-ray machine, said Marty Heires, a spokesman for American.
The radiation dose from an individual dental X-ray, Dr Claus points out, has gone down by about half over the past 30 years or so.
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"To put that into context, 20mSv is the same dose you get from three computed tomography (X-ray) scans of your chest, roughly, " she told reporters.
Its chips are in products from set-top boxes to X-ray machines.
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X-rays from three of them, in between their gamma-ray outbursts.
So when they noticed bright X-ray flares coming from the galaxy, they quickly turned their attention.
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As with many other products--including tungsten-filament lightbulbs, X-ray machines and jet engines--GE bought patents from an inventor to get into the turbine business, then refined the design and manufacturing techniques ( see time line).
The observations from the Chandra space telescope are the deepest X-ray images ever obtained, viewing events that are 10 billion light-years away.
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The different instruments were needed to track down the target galaxies, measure star formation and identify mergers, and, crucially, with Chandra, see the X-ray emissions that come from heated material as it is sucked into a black hole.
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Radiation from the flare was so intense it saturated the X-ray detectors on two spacecraft used by the U.S. government to determine the strength of the solar blasts.
Proposed sources of such high heating in the early solar nebula have included everything from colliding asteroids, gamma ray bursts, solar x-ray flares, even lightning in the proto-planetary disk itself.
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Many Americans recognize the unsurpassed science and inspiration that have come from the Hubble Space Telescope over the past two decades, as well as from its less famous sister satellites like the Chandra X-ray Observatory, the Spitzer Space (Infrared) Telescope and the Fermi gamma-ray observatory.
They considered everything from computer hard drives to obsolete floppy discs, and x-ray films to microchips on credit cards.
That debris would not only have produced the gamma ray burst, but also some X-ray emissions that were also observed from the explosion.
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Plenty of features have been carried over from the last-gen model as well, including X-Ray, which lets you find characters, places, topics, etc. spaced throughout the book by searching on a given term.
Beds, baths, and even an X-ray machine are among equipment reported stolen from hospitals across Wales.
X-ray and ultrasound machines, helped by earnings from Mr Zhou's sideline business growing flowers and trees.
Even subsistence fishermen, who eat far more fish than the typical American, would receive a dose of radiation from the cesium isotopes released in the meltdown equivalent to a single dental X-ray, Fisher and his colleagues reported.
Moreover, guidelines from the American Dental Association state that healthy adults should have a bitewing X-ray no more than once every two or three years, and that there is little reason to X-ray patients who do not have symptoms.
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In fact, while the low-risk patients might not receive any benefit from the test, there is at least some risk from radiation--which is higher for a CT angiogram than a traditional X-ray.
In the case of lung transplants, the donor will have a chest x-ray and broncoscopy, where an endoscope is used to examine lungs from the inside.
X-Ray for TV is available starting today on the most popular TV shows from Amazon Instant Video, many of which are also available as part of Prime Instant Video: Justified, Downton Abbey, The West Wing, Sons of Anarchy, Falling Skies, American Horror Story, Grey's Anatomy, Doctor Who, The Walking Dead, Lost, Glee, Breaking Bad and Game of Thrones.
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Most diffuse X-ray sources in the Universe have a characteristic temperature because they represent the residual radiation from an event, such as a supernova.
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