Most physicians would rather use a fluoroscope than X-ray photographs; it's the difference between watching a movie and a set of stills. A fluoroscope lets them watch the internal organs in action. But there are two difficulties: a doctor's eyes function poorly in the dim light needed to make the fluoroscopic image visible; the X-ray intensities now used can't be stepped up without endangering the patient. Last week Westinghouse Physicist John Wo Coltman, 32, who has been inventing gadgets since he was a boy, thought he had the answer: an X-ray intensifier, to give physicians a look as much as 500...
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