tracer

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The RealEyeable ™ tracer is an implantable fiducial for use with the RealEye ™ patient positioning and monitoring system.

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  1. noun One who is employed to locate missing goods or persons.
  2. noun An investigation or inquiry organized to trace missing goods or persons.
  3. noun Any of several instruments used in making tracings or in imprinting designs by tracing.

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  • Every third bullet was a tracer--he had put in a tracer-charged drum before darkness. —  007 - The Lost Oasis
  • Bursts of yellow tracer from the German machine guns pursued the fleeing gun crews. —  Panzer Aces
  • Every fiftieth bullet was a tracer, and the little weapon loosened slugs faster than most military machine guns The pilot of the black plane saw the tracer. —  076 - The Flaming Falcons
  • The tracer was absorbed at the neuron soma or cell body and bound to transporter molecules that carried it to the axon terminals in other structures. —  News from The Scientist
  • The system localizes and tracks the RealEyeable ™ tracer, an implanted trackable fiducial ... —  Medgadget
 

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