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This fellowship will enable her to make several trips to Canada and the USA to the two leading laboratories in Scanning Transmission X-Ray Microscopy, a technique which Dr Coker will employ to image bacteria and minerals in real world environment.

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Other new services include enhanced X-ray, ultrasound, and MRI and CT scanning facilities.

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Caught in the middle is GE's medical division, the old home of current chief Jeffrey Immelt and the biggest seller of X-ray, MRI, ultrasound and CT-scanning equipment in the world.

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In Amsterdam, metal detectors and X-ray machines were in place, but the advanced scanning technology was not available.

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