Medical devices

Medical devices

Any instrument, appliance or machine that facilitates the prevention,diagnosis and treatment of illness, physical or mental injury, by a medical professional.

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exwave HAD technology

Consumer electronics; Video camera

Technology with a nearly gapless OCL (On-chip-lens) located over each pixel of the CCD resulting in more than twice the sensitivity and 1/50 the smear compared to Hyper HAD ...

F stop, F number

Consumer electronics; Video camera

Calibrated measure of lens iris aperture. Common F stops are F1.4, F2, F2.8, F4, F5.6, F8, F11, F16, F22. The higher the number, the smaller the iris aperture and the less light ...

field / frame integration

Consumer electronics; Video camera

Two different pixel readout techniques in CCDs designed for interlaced output. Refers to the total integration time, field duration (16.6 ms NTSC/EIA or 20 ms PAL/CCIR) or frame ...

field

Consumer electronics; Video camera

Half of a TV picture consisting of only the odd or only the even lines. NTSC/EIA features 60 fields of 262.5 lines / second. PAL/CCIR features 50 fields of 312.5 lines / second. ...

frame

Consumer electronics; Video camera

One complete TV picture consisting of two sequential interlaced scanned fields. NTSC/EIA has 30 frames of 525 lines per second. PAL/CCIR has 25 frames of 625 lines per second.

focal length

Consumer electronics; Video camera

Distance between the optical center of a lens and the image focal point. Fixes the magnification and the angle of view of a lens. Vari-focal and zoom lenses have a variable focal ...