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  2. AN/PVS-5 - Wikipedia

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    The AN/PVS-5 is a dual-tube night-vision goggle used for aviation and ground support. It uses second-generation image-intensifier tubes. The United States Army still has PVS-5 on supply but are very rarely used. The AN/PVS-5 is based on the SU-50 which was a first-generation night-vision goggle adapted by the United States Air Force in 1971 ...

  3. Night-vision device - Wikipedia

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    The effect on the natural night vision of the eye is evident A standard telescopic sight augmented with a night-vision device in front on the M110. Note that in addition to the image intensifier, the NVD gathers much more light by its much larger aperture A 1PN51-2 night-vision reticle with markings for range estimation First-person view ...

  4. X-ray optics - Wikipedia

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    X-ray optics is the branch of optics dealing with X-rays, rather than visible light.It deals with focusing and other ways of manipulating the X-ray beams for research techniques such as X-ray diffraction, X-ray crystallography, X-ray fluorescence, small-angle X-ray scattering, X-ray microscopy, X-ray phase-contrast imaging, and X-ray astronomy.

  5. Night vision - Wikipedia

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    Because active infrared night-vision systems can incorporate illuminators that produce high levels of infrared light, the resulting images are typically higher resolution than other night-vision technologies. [16] [17] Active infrared night vision is now commonly found in commercial, residential and government security applications, where it ...

  6. Image intensifier - Wikipedia

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    An image intensifier or image intensifier tube is a vacuum tube device for increasing the intensity of available light in an optical system to allow use under low-light conditions, such as at night, to facilitate visual imaging of low-light processes, such as fluorescence of materials in X-rays or gamma rays (X-ray image intensifier), or for conversion of non-visible light sources, such as ...

  7. X-ray - Wikipedia

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    Natural color X-ray photogram of a wine scene. Note the edges of hollow cylinders as compared to the solid candle. William Coolidge explains medical imaging and X-rays.. An X-ray (also known in many languages as Röntgen radiation) is a form of high-energy electromagnetic radiation with a wavelength shorter than those of ultraviolet rays and longer than those of gamma rays.

  8. X-ray vision - Wikipedia

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    Among the best known figures with "x-ray vision" are the fictional Superman, and the protagonist of the 1963 film X. The first person with X-ray vision in a comic book was Olga Mesmer in 1937's Spicy Mysteries. She is often considered to be one of the first superheroes. [1] In myth, Lynceus of the Argonauts possessed a similar ability. [2] [3]

  9. X-ray source - Wikipedia

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    Artificial X-ray sources Radiopharmaceuticals in radiopharmacology. Radioactive tracer; Brachytherapy; X-ray tube, a vacuum tube that produces X-rays when current flows through it; X-ray laser; X-ray generator, any of various devices using X-ray tubes, lasers, or radioisotopes; Synchrotron, which produces X-rays as synchrotron radiation