This article surveys recent results aiming at obtaining refined mapping estimates for the X-ray transform on a Riemannian manifold with boundary, which leverage the condition that the boundary be strictly geodesically convex. These questions are motivated by classical inverse problems questions (e.g. range characterization, stability estimates, mapping properties on Hilbert scales), and more recently by uncertainty quantification and operator learning questions.2 A family of Banach (or Hilbert) spaces {(Eα, • α)}α 0 <α<β 0 is a Banach scale in the sense of Krein and Petunin (1966) if (1) E β is densely embedded in Eα when β > α with x α ≤ α,β x β for all x ∈ E β , and (2) interpolation inequalities hold in the sense that there is a function C(α, β, γ) finite at all points of the domain α0 ≤ α < β < γ ≤ β0 such that x β ≤ C(α, β, γ) x