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X-Rays Reveal Hidden Portrait Under Painting By Edgar Degas

(Left) This photo provided by Australian Synchrotron and the National Gallery of Victoria, shows an image discovered with X-ray fluorescence microscopy, beneath Edgar Degas' Portrait of a Woman. (Right) Degas' painting Portrait of a Woman. Australian Synchrotron and the National Gallery of Victoria via AP hide caption

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Australian Synchrotron and the National Gallery of Victoria via AP

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X-Rays Reveal Hidden Portrait Under Painting By Edgar Degas

A team of researchers in Australia used a special mapping technique to expose a striking painting of another woman under the French Impressionist's Portrait of a Woman.

Radiologists Say It's Time To Come Out Of The Dark

Who's there? A radiologist studies digital X-rays in a viewing room at what is now called the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Bethesda, Md. Seth Rossman/U.S. Navy hide caption

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Shots - Health News

Radiologists Say It's Time To Come Out Of The Dark

Radiologists have an image problem with patients. Many of them don't know who the doctors are or what they do. A survey finds that only about half of patients receiving CT scans even knew radiologists are doctors.