• A collimator is a device which narrows a beam of particles or waves. “To narrow” can mean either to cause the directions of motion to become more aligned...
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    A collimator sight is a type of optical sight that allows the user looking into it to see an illuminated aiming point aligned with the device the sight...
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    A multileaf collimator (MLC) is a collimator or beam-limiting device that is made of individual "leaves" of a high atomic numbered material, usually tungsten...
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  • Rotational modulation collimators (or RMCs) are a specialization of the modulation collimator, an imaging device invented by Minoru Oda [fr; de]. Devices...
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    through it. There are three types of collimators: low energy, medium energy, and high energy collimators. As the collimators transitioned from low energy to...
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    approximately collimated by a number of processes, for instance by means of a collimator. Perfectly collimated light is sometimes said to be focused at infinity...
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  • A Floating collimator was an early collimator widely used in astronomical observations. It was invented by the English physicist and astronomer Captain...
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    and collimator movements, reducing treatment times. The idealized intersection point of the gantry axis of rotation with that of the collimator and treatment...
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    particles, which are focussed in a particular direction of travel using collimators. Each radiotherapy beam consists of one type of particle intended for...
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    the collimator, mostly by the diameter of the collimator lens. The sight does not interfere with the overall view, particularly when the collimator light...
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    is fixed to the receiver) and the collimator (which is fixed to the barrel) can be sighted to match. Most collimators have grid patterns for rechecking...
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    A Cheshire eyepiece or Cheshire collimator is a simple tool that helps aligning the optical axes of the mirrors or lenses of a telescope, a process called...
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    telescopes were using simple collimating techniques (e.g. rotating collimators, wire collimators), the technology most used in the present day employs coded...
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    fitted with a target marker (laser micro collimator) or a high powered lamp (intense light spot collimator). Romania Romanian Intelligence Service Diac...
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    provided with two types of rail system for mounting various optical or collimator sights. A Picatinny rail on top of the receiver or a dove-tail side rail...
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    glass, split image device SD1: ground glass, cross collimator SD11: aerial image, cross collimator SE: ground glass SG: ground glass, grid SI: ground...
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    wide, and it is plated with supermirror coatings. Primary collimator There are Söller collimators prior to the monochromator in order to reduce the divergence...
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    were Dr. Elihu A. Boldt and Dr. Gordon P. Garmire. The A3, or Modulation Collimator (MC) instrument, provided high-precision positions of X-ray sources, accurate...
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    same relationship that they share in reality. But by shifting the x-ray collimator (radiation source) to one side and tilting it towards the objects (right)...
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  • compensating filter is applied. X-ray filters are commonly mounted to the collimator (collimator-mounted) of an x-ray machine, where the photon beam exits the x-ray...
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    and blind collimator sights that are used with both eyes. Collimated reticles are created using refractive or reflective optical collimators to generate...
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    part of the reticle and its focusing rear eyepiece as a collimator sight. As in any other collimator sight, the user does not actually look through the sight...
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    simpler: the connector is simply plugged into a pre-aligned fiber-optic collimator, which contains a lens that is either accurately positioned to the fiber...
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    groups in several-second intervals. A PG-1M panoramic telescope with a K-1 collimator can be used for sighting.[citation needed] Each 2.87-meter (9 ft 5 in)...
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    generation computer. The projection unit in a typical HUD is an optical collimator setup: a convex lens or concave mirror with a cathode-ray tube, light...
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    black body) is focused onto a square test target at the focal plane of a collimator (the mirrors in the diagram), such that a virtual image of the test target...
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  • also helped develop collimators for sharpening the images produced by gamma-ray scanners, and was referred to as 'Mr. Collimator' by colleagues. Beck...
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  • target and flattener. A "field light" mode, which allowed the patient and collimator to be correctly positioned by illuminating the treatment area with visible...
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    monochromator designs do use focusing gratings that do not need separate collimators, most use collimating mirrors. Reflective optics are preferred because...
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    A wheel type radiotherapy device which has a long collimator to focus the radiation into a narrow beam. The caesium chloride radioactive source is the...
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