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s0rceyesterday at 7:03 PM1 replyview on HN

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


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hinkleyyesterday at 7:07 PM

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.