collimator
collimator
Definition
col·li·ma·tor (-māt′ər)
noun
- a small telescope with cross hairs at its focus, fixed to another telescope, surveying instrument, etc. for adjusting the line of sight
- a device that causes a beam of radiation, as light, to move as parallel rays
Etymology: see collimate
collimator
Usage Examples
Converse of object
- use: In order to be able to resolve anatomical structures in a small animal with sufficient detail a system using pinhole collimators is required.
- have: Each detector had a co-aligned stainless steel collimator yielding an elliptical field of view 1 x 1.8 degrees.
Adjective modifier
- final: Figure 8 shows the effect on the x-ray scatter of both translation and rotation of the final collimator.
- lead: Conventional SPECT data was also acquired for these phantoms using the camera's scintillation detector with a lead collimator.
Modifies a noun
- cell: Note: If x is not present, then the dataset refers to or collected by both sets of collimator cells combined.
- optic: The laser heads come with collimator optics and can be fitted with optical fibers.
- transmission: TRANS The collimator transmission at time of record ( percentage ).
- response: Data were included only if the source position was within 15 % of the collimator response.
- lens: Moving the WFS collimator lens barrel back further from the science collimator mirror would provide room for the mechanism.
- optics: The optical design for the LGS path modifies the field lens and the collimator optics.
Noun used with modifier
- laser: To account for this, the laser beacon collimator has two extra independent axial motions for lens elements.
- multi-leaf: A major component of modern linear accelerators which assists this technique is the multi-leaf collimator ( MLC ).
- pinhole: In order to be able to resolve anatomical structures in a small animal with sufficient detail a system using pinhole collimators is required.
- steel: Each detector had a co-aligned stainless steel collimator yielding an elliptical field of view 1 x 1.8 degrees.
Browse dictionary entries near collimator
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