Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/09/27
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]To record the image on a fluoroscope - a screen coated with a compound that emits light when hit by X-rays, creating a visible image. This way you can use cheaper camera films instead of expensive 50x60cm X-rays films to record a radiographic image. Amilcar David Prakel wrote: > on 27/9/00 12:09 pm, Leica Users digest at > owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us wrote: > > > I have seen the lens. It is made by Elcan for a X-Ray machine. The lens > > looks very similar to the Navy version of 90/1 but it does not have focusing > > capability. > > Pardon my ignorance but why would you use an optical lens of any kind on an > X-ray machine? > > -- > David Prakel > > dprakel@rochester.rr.com