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antiscatter

antiscatter adjective: that reduces or eliminates scatter.

Adjective

antiscatter (not comparable)

  1. That reduces or eliminates scatter
    • To our knowledge, only one study in literature has focused on the contribution of antiscatter grid [5 ], which enables the user to specify the transmission percentages of the primary image and the scattered one.2015 November 7, “A GPU Simulation Tool for Training and Optimisation in 2D Digital X-Ray Imaging”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI

Origin of antiscatter

From anti- + scatter.

Questions about antiscatter

What does antiscatter mean?
Antiscatter means that reduces or eliminates scatter.
What part of speech is antiscatter?
Antiscatter is an adjective.

Words near antiscatter in the dictionary

  1. antiscaling
  2. antiscalping
  3. antiscam
  4. antiscarp
  5. antiscarps
  6. antiscatter
  7. antisceptic
  8. antisceptics
  9. antischistomiasis
  10. antischistosoma
  11. antischistosomal

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