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Minute Insight: MinXray Takes X-Ray Tech Higher Than Ever Before With World Record

 
• By Barnaby Pickering

The famous Fleet Street-born publication has recognized MinXray’s global sales director as the conductor of the highest-ever X-ray image.

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• Source: Informa/Alamy

Almost one year after setting up operations at Everest base camp, miniaturized X-ray technology developer MiniXray, has received an official Guinness world record for performing the highest-altitude X-ray scan ever.

The camp is 17,598 feet above sea level with oxygen levels are roughly half those at sea level.

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