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One promising approach to enable proton counting during radiotherapy involves the development of high-performance thin-film detectors that are transmissive to protons.

From Science Daily • Feb. 1, 2024

Fewer than a dozen states have public health emergency declarations in place, despite a rise in cases of the highly transmissive omicron subvariant known as BA.5.

From Seattle Times • Jul. 25, 2022

Two years and several more transmissive variants later, the shortcomings of that strategy are being laid bare.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 8, 2022

Most importantly: The vaccine is unable to stop breakthrough infections, and omicron is highly transmissive.

From Slate • Jan. 26, 2022

Similarly, the keys of an organ have only a transmissive function.

From The Making of Arguments by Gardiner, J. H.