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image intensifier

British  

noun

  1. any of various devices for amplifying the intensity of an optical image, sometimes used in conjunction with an image converter

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Last week at the Lowell Observatory, Flagstaff, Ariz., Astronomers Albert G. Wilson and Earle Slipher predicted that the image intensifier would break the Mars deadlock.

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Monitoring the operation through an image intensifier�a refined fluoroscope that produces an X-ray image 1,500 times Drighter than the old-style fluoroscopic screen�Drs. Sones and Shirey then release a tiny amount of radiopaque dye through the catheter into the aorta in order to locate the spot at which right and left coronary arteries join the circulation's main stem.

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