Word: fluoricon
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...week in San Francisco, at the annual meeting of the American Roentgen Ray Society, a novel, three-dimensional fluoroscopy machine was displayed by General Electric. A complex welter of mirrors, polarizing filters, lenses, an image intensifier and a two-cathode X-ray tube (see diagram), G.E.'s Stereo Fluoricon shows a patient to his physician as a green 3-D image, "like a skeleton with its organs hung inside." Other X-ray machines and sonar beams have produced similar 3-D effects, but previous processes were too cumbersome or time-consuming to be easily utilized. G.E.'s machine...
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