(n.) A telescope arranged and used to determine errors of collimation, both vertical and horizontal.
(n.) A tube having a convex lens at one end and at the other a small opening or slit which is at the principal focus of the lens, used for producing a beam of parallel rays; also, a lens so used.
Example Sentences:
(1) The dual-probe system incorporates a central collimated probe for monitoring activity in the LV surrounded by an annular detector collimated in such a manner as to provide simultaneous real-time monitoring of the LV background activity.
(2) The second area of improved SPECT technology is camera collimation and related imaging techniques.
(3) Comparative clinical studies on temporomandibular joints (TMJ) between the LEGP and fan beam collimators also confirm the superior image quality obtained with the fan beam collimator.
(4) In work to determine whether X-radiation could be used to induce tumors of the colon in outbred Holtzman rats, a technique was devised so that only the descending colon could be irradiated with a collimated X-ray beam and tumorigenic exposures in the kilo-Roentgen range were delivered.
(5) In the RAO view with the collimator flat against the chest there was better resolution of the cardiac apex.
(6) As an initial feasibility study of computer-controlled radiation therapy, its application to produce wedge-shaped dose distributions by moving the collimator jaws has been evaluated.
(7) Analysis of the penumbra width of cross dose distributions, as a function of field sizes, allowed us to postulate that the dmax shift could be due to the phantom scattered photons, which in turn were generated by the collimator scattered photons.
(8) Larger detectors with converging collimation result in much higher photon input rates to the scintillation crystal in routine clinical studies than has occurred in the past.
(9) Neutron spectra at various locations in a phantom, irradiated by collimated beams of 14 MeV neutrons and neutrons from 252 Cf and Po-Be sources, were calculated using the Monte Carlo technique.
(10) Without scatter, the resolution was 4.7 mm (full width at half-maximum); in a scatter medium, the resolution was 5.3-10.0 mm with high resolution collimation and 7.7-18.8 mm with general purpose collimation, depending on filtering.
(11) Quantitative measurement of the scatter dose in polystyrene solid phantoms with a Farmer type chamber and effects of shielding blocks under the collimators were studied.
(12) Spatial resolution with parallel-hole or converging collimators was much less satisfactory with Ta-178 because of septal penetration by high-energy photons.
(13) Moving the collimator during imaging will reduce septal aberrations but will not increase resolution.
(14) The nonuniform response inherent in the use of the pinhole collimator has a significant effect, but with computer processing this is readily eliminated.
(15) The exchange of collimator pairs results in significant output differences but has a negligible effect on the depth-dose curves.
(16) This was consistent with the design of the line focus and the beam collimators used in this system.
(17) One-centimeter collimation contiguous scans through the chest were obtained in all patients.
(18) A further increase in photon utization is gained for small-organ imaging with converging collimators, which produce images with superior resolution and sensitivity to that obtained with equivalent parallel-hole collimators.
(19) Normal quantitative circumferential profile limits were established for a 30 degrees bilateral rotating slant-hole (RSH) collimator tomographic system.
(20) Central axis percentage depth doses and off-axis ratios measured with such a collimator show variations with the source-to-surface distance (SSD).
Condense
Definition:
(v. t.) To make more close, compact, or dense; to compress or concentrate into a smaller compass; to consolidate; to abridge; to epitomize.
(v. t.) To reduce into another and denser form, as by cold or pressure; as, to condense gas into a liquid form, or steam into water.
(v. i.) To become more compact; to be reduced into a denser form.
(v. i.) To combine or unite (as two chemical substances) with or without separation of some unimportant side products.
(v. i.) To undergo polymerization.
(a.) Condensed; compact; dense.
Example Sentences:
(1) Here we report that sperm from psr males fertilizes eggs, but that the paternal chromosomes are subsequently condensed into a chromatin mass before the first mitotic division of the egg and do not participate in further divisions.
(2) These studies indicate that at each site of induction during feather morphogenesis, a general pattern is repeated in which an epithelial structure linked by L-CAM is confronted with periodically propagating condensations of cells linked by N-CAM.
(3) The propionyl-CoA condensing enzyme which catalyzes the first step in the biosynthesis of 2-methylbutyrate and 2-methylvalerate by Ascaris muscle appears to exist in at least three forms in the mitochondria of this parasitic nematode.
(4) Because the contour length of these loops was proportionate to the DNA content of the superinfecting lambda phage, it was concluded that the fibers contained DNA condensed 6.5-fold in blocks of about 250 base pairs.
(5) Allyl 4-O-benzyl-alpha-L-rhamnopyranoside was converted into allyl 4-O-benzyl-3-O-methyl-alpha-L-rhamnopyranoside and this was condensed with 2,3,4-tri-O-acetyl-alpha-L-rhamnopyranosyl chloride to give a disaccharide derivative which was converted into allyl 4-O-benzyl-2-O-(2,3-O-isopropylidene-alpha-L-rhamnopyranosyl)-3-O-methyl -alpha- L-rhamnopyranoside.
(6) Moderately dense fragments are interpreted as originating from dying cells in which the cytoplasm is undergoing condensation.
(7) In the scope of our research about the antimicrobial activity of aldehyde-amin-condensates a number of partly new unsymmetrically substituted animals was synthesized by reaction of formaldehyde with different secondary amines.
(8) They are thought to represent condensations of dense bodies in degenerating tumor cells.
(9) The blood lymphocytes were small with scanty cytoplasm, densely condensed nuclear chromatin, and deep clefts originating in sharp angles from the nuclear surface.
(10) The 2-substituted phenoxy-6-methoxy-8-aminoquinolines (4-6) were afforded by reduction of the corresponding 8-nitroquinolines (1-3) which were obtained by condensation of 2-chloro-6-methoxy-8-nitroquinoline and substituted phenols.
(11) Both main-stream and side-stream cigarette smoke condensates and some fractions, containing water-soluble bases, water-insoluble bases, and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, were found to induce AHH activity in lung and liver, the lung being induced to the greatest extent.
(12) Ultrastructurally, transgenic domains were often intimately connected with constitutive heterochromatin and were highly condensed.
(13) This paper describes a new method of condensation (focusing) of extended volumes of mixtures of proteins (or other ampholytes) into an isoelectric spectrum of discrete zones located at points of a pH gradient corresponding to the pI value of the individual proteins.
(14) 4, 323-340, 1978) has a ts defect in its regulatory mechanism for the initiation of chromosome condensation, the so-called, premature chromosome condensation (PCC) being induced at a nonpermissive temperature (Nishimoto, T. et al.
(15) Chemical analysis of the smoke concensate of bidis and cigarettes showed that condensate from bidis had a higher benzo[a]pyrene level than was observed in cigarette smoke condensate, when compared on the basis of the mass (mg) burnt.
(16) On very rare occasions there is missorting such that aggregates of condensed secretory proteins and viruses occur together in post-Golgi vesicles.
(17) The reductions are carried out at the nanogram to microgram level with borane, reacting the solid sample with condensed reagent vapor.
(18) These data suggest that the main route for the formation of the carbon skeleton of aspartate was by a C(3) plus C(1) condensation, with the C(3) unit derived from the isopropyl carbons of valine and the C(1) unit probably from carbon dioxide.
(19) Once an apical hard tissue barrier is formed, a permanent root canal filling can be safely condensed.
(20) While the antiserum against gamma 3-MSH labelled all the secretory granules including intrasaccular condensations in the Golgi apparatus, antisera against alpha-MSH only labelled extra-Golgi secretory vesicles (SV).