collimator

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On the whole, he considered that the best glass to use was pure white flint glass for the collimator, the prisms, and the camera lens.

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  1. noun A device capable of collimating radiation, as a long narrow tube in which strongly absorbing or reflecting walls permit only radiation traveling parallel to the tube axis to traverse the entire length.

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  • The group used a modulation—or shadow-collimator, which is shown schematically in Fig. —  Analog March, 1971
  • One collimator is not sufficient to locate the source for it could lie in any one of the various directions that X rays can pass through to the detector between wires. —  Analog March, 1971
  • The performance of the Inveon is suitable for successful murine model imaging experiments. abstract annexin antibody apoptosis book cancer cardiovascular collimator conf_rec ct f18 fdg flt i124 kinetic mph mri multi_modality paper performance pet photodynamic physics pinhole preclinical reconstruction review rsh smo snm spect CiteULike organises scholarly (or academic) papers or literature and provides bibliographic (which means it makes bibliographies) for universities and higher education establishments. —  CiteULike: Everyone's library
  • High-power beam delivery systems combine an integrated optical isolator in line with a Fusion fibre collimator. —  Electronicstalk - electronics industry news
  • An accurate calibration method of the multileaf collimator valid for conformal and intensity modulated radiation treatments —  CiteULike: Everyone's library
 

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/ˈkɑlɪmeɪtər/
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