Sentences with phrase «of imagers»
Viking 1, although it was a groundbreaking mission at the time, had a camera that pales with the capabilities of imagers today.
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Understanding reliability and some limitations of the images and spectra reconstructed from a multi-monochromatic x-ray imager
Comparison of implosion core metrics: A 10 ps dilation X-ray imager vs a 100 ps gated microchannel plate
To navigate autonomously, it uses a panoramic imager made of a triplet of high - resolution cameras mounted on a necklike pan-tilt mechanism.
While the new device may not be as good as the best conventional visual imagers, it is the state of the art for a tunable lens, he said.
In addition, NICU staff members, called certified retinal imagers, took retinal photographs of all the infants, and those images were transmitted to trained image readers at a central location at the University of Pennsylvania.
One of the most notable findings of these first - ever pictures of Jupiter's north and south poles is something that the JunoCam imager did not see.
The limited imaging area of commercially available chlorophyll fluorescence imagers restricts these instruments to imaging, at most, one or two seedlings at a time.
«Innovative system images photosynthesis to provide picture of plant health: Crop imager could enable agricultural machinery that automatically responds to stressed plants.»
Yet another instrument, an imager that could spot planets orbiting distant stars, is due by the end of the year.
Two mornings a week for the better part of an 18 - month stretch, you could find Russell Poldrack with his head inside a giant metal doughnut — the business end of a magnetic resonance imager.
The original picture was of the 1997 Mars Pathfinder imager.
Built out of titanium to withstand the daily Martian temperature swings from — 22 degrees Fahrenheit -LRB--- 30 degrees Celsius) to — 112 degrees F -LRB--- 80 degrees C), the imager is also designed to perform in low atmospheric pressure.
There have been some communication problems — not with the imager per se; they have been more on the sense of that we can't quite always get the images we've commanded back from Mars.
The JunoCam imager aboard NASA's Juno mission snapped pics of the most iconic feature of the solar system's largest planetary inhabitant during its Monday (July 10) flyby.
In January a team led by David Smith of Duke University demonstrated a metamaterial - based microwave camera that requires minimal data storage and sensors, which could replace bulkier, costlier microwave imagers now used in some airport security booths.
Researchers are probing the brain with increasingly powerful tools, including superfast magnetic resonance imagers and microelectrodes that can detect the murmurs of individual brain cells.
As with the other self - diagnosis tools, home use of Ozcan's cell phone blood imager is a ways off, but it is already being looked at for pilot programs in remote locations where doctors and lab equipment are in short supply.
Joseph Burns, of Cornell University and a member of the team working with Cassini's imager, says he is grateful that there is still a «highly capable» spacecraft, but admits his disappointment over «a missed opportunity».
Developed by Greg Kopp of the University of Colorado's Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, the imager collected radiance data for nearly half of its eight - and - a-half hour flight, demonstrating improved techniques for future space - based radiance tests.
There are two sets of instruments that study the sun on a day - to - day basis: imagers that look at the disk of the sun, and those that look at the corona by blocking out the disk.
Marois is part of a group working on building a similar high - tech planet imager at the 8.1 - meter Gemini South telescope in Chile, and was pleased to see the Serabyn team's proof - of - concept.
The patent - pending technology, which uses detectors at the heart of the Large Hadron Collider at CERN alongside world - first radiation - hard CMOS imagers, will reduce dose uncertainties from several centimetres to just a few millimetres.
The Hubble, Ready for Its Close - Up HUBBLE 3D When the space shuttle Atlantis set off to repair the Hubble Space Telescope last May, its payload included state - of - the - art imagers, new batteries, and a 600 - pound IMAX camera.
«Now, you can get a whole range of angles of projections of the breast without moving the breast or moving the imager.
Star Tiger aims to produce a compact colour terahertz imager using state - of - the - art micromachining technology.
«With the prism as an add - on, you can turn a classical microscope into an ultra-fast 3D imager,» says Kristin Grussmayer, another one of the paper's lead authors.
The collimator only allows the system to pick up the gamma rays that come straight out of the breast, through the holes of collimator, and into the imager.
He had scanned the brains of 44 people, half of them known murderers, with imagers that pick out the areas of high activity.
Greg Asner, an ecologist with the Carnegie Institution for Science's Department of Global Ecology at Stanford University in California, has used a unique spectral imager to map 15 traits for forests across Peru.
«This is a very exciting area,» agrees brain imager Monte Buchsbaum of Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York City.
The revolution in neuroscience is often characterized as a revolution in new imaging technology.A long overdue reassessment of neuroimaging machines — in particular the functional magnetic resonance imager — has underlined that what you see is not always what you get.A study published this year in Perspectives on Psychological Science noted that many papers in social neuroscience, the field that examines the neurobiology of social behavior, suffered from faulty analyses that produced «voodoo correlations» in their data.
GE's Amersham Typhoon is a next - generation biomolecular imager that meets all of your needs in one instrument.
The team used the GROND imager at the 2.2 m ESO / MPG telescope of the European Southern Observatory in Chile to observe the planet simultaneously at seven different wavelength bands spanning the optical and near - infrared.
And a look under the rover using its arm - mounted microscopic imager has revealed that a pyrimidal rock is just touching the underbelly of the rover.
The two, 10 - meter optical / infrared telescopes near the summit of Mauna Kea on the Island of Hawai'i feature a suite of advanced instruments including imagers, multi-object spectrographs, high - resolution spectrographs, integral - field spectrographs and world - leading laser guide star adaptive optics systems.
The Psyche spacecraft would orbit the huge metal asteroid for about 12 months, studying the topography, gravity, magnetic field and other surface features, and carry a suite of instruments, including magnetometer, imager, gamma ray and neutron spectrometer.
As part of an engineering test, NASA's OSIRIS - REx spacecraft captured this image of the Earth and Moon using its NavCam1 imager on January 17 from a distance of 39.5 million miles (63.6 million km).
All eight of the spacecraft's instruments as well as its imager, JunoCam, will be on during the flyby.
The two, 10 - meter optical / infrared telescopes on the summit of Mauna Kea on the Island of Hawaii feature a suite of advanced instruments including imagers, multi-object spectrographs, high - resolution spectrographs, integral - field spectrometer and world - leading laser guide star adaptive optics systems.
The two, 10 - meter optical / infrared telescopes near the summit of Mauna Kea on the Island of Hawaii feature a suite of advanced instruments including imagers, multi-object spectrographs, high - resolution spectrographs, integral - field spectographs and world - leading laser guide star adaptive optics systems.
As a co-investigator on the CaSSIS imager, Western University's Livio Tornabene is specifically tasked with simulating how CaSSIS imaging will address its specific science objectives, as well as the overarching objectives of the TGO mission itself.
Professor Close is the principal scientist of the 6.5 - meter diameter Magellan Adaptive Optics extrasolar planet imager (MagAO), located in the high Atacama Desert of Chile.
The twin 10 - meter optical / infrared telescopes located on the summit of Mauna Kea on the Island of Hawaii, feature a world - leading suite of advanced instruments including imagers, multi-object spectrographs, high - resolution spectrographs, integral - field spectroscopy and a laser guide star adaptive optics system.
A group of researchers has observed the first ground - based transit observation of K2 - 3d — a potentially Earth - like extrasolar planet supposedly within the habitable zone around a bright M - dwarf host star 147 light - years away — using the multi-band imager MuSCAT on the Okayama Astrophysical Observatory's 1.88 - metre telescope.
The two, 10 - meter optical / infrared telescopes near the summit of Mauna Kea on the Island of Hawaii feature a suite of advanced instruments including imagers, multi-object spectrographs, high - resolution spectrographs, integral - field spectrographs and world - leading laser guide star adaptive optics systems.
This multi-purpose high - contrast visible and near - infrared (R - to K - band) instrument is not only intended to serve as a VLT - class «planet - imager» instrument in the Northern hemisphere, but also to operate as a technology demonstr... ▽ More The vector vortex is a coronagraphic imaging mode of the recently commissioned Subaru Coronagraphic Extreme - Adaptive Optics (SCExAO) platform on the 8 - m Subaru Telescope.
This multi-purpose high - contrast visible and near - infrared (R - to K - band) instrument is not only intended to serve as a VLT - class «planet - imager» instrument in the Northern hemisphere, but also to operate as a technology demonstration testbed ahead of the ELTs - era, with a particular emphasis on small inner - working angle (IWA) coronagraphic capabilities.
By using advanced high contrast imagers, it is possible to conduct high resolution spectroscopy on imageable exoplanets, after the star light is first suppress... ▽ More Spectroscopic observations are extremely important for determining the composition, structure, and surface gravity of exoplanetary atmospheres.
We used NaCo at VLT to explore t... ▽ More In anticipation of the VLT / SPHERE planet imager guaranteed time programs, we have conducted a preparatory survey of 86 stars between 2009 and 2013 in order to identify new faint comoving companions to ultimately carry out a comprehensive analysis of the occurence of giant planets and brown dwarf companions at wide (10 - 2000 AU) orbits around young, solar - type stars.