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Glossary entry

German term or phrase:

Mikrokanalmatrize

English translation:

microchannel matrix

Added to glossary by Cetacea
Jun 12, 2006 22:29
18 yrs ago
German term

Mikrokahnellematrizen

German to English Tech/Engineering Medical: Instruments X-ray displays
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Entwicklung von Hochauflösenden Rötgenbildschirmen auf der Basis von Mikrokahnellematrizen und optimierten Scintillatoren für die Medizin bzw. für die Qualitätskontrolle in der Elektroindustrie.
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Drawn a complete blank on this one really, three search engines and my usual references came up blank on all the variations I could think of.

Anybody in the know? Thanks in advance,

Stephen

Anybody in the know
Proposed translations (English)
2 +2 microchannel plates
3 +1 microcannula matrices
1 microcalorimeter arrays

Discussion

Languageman (asker) Jun 13, 2006:
@Richard - thanks for the follow up, and for all your efforts on my behalf!
Richard Benham Jun 13, 2006:
Sorry, no. It looks like the "n" is doubled in German, but still I can find nothing.
Languageman (asker) Jun 13, 2006:
@Richard Thanks for the idea, still didn't find anything - am I missing something?
Richard Benham Jun 13, 2006:
Maybe you would draw less of a blank if you left out the "h".

Proposed translations

+2
13 hrs
Selected

microchannel plates

Going by how the term you're looking for sounds when pronounced rather than by its spelling (since I sometimes talk to myself when totally puzzled...), I went looking for "Mikrokanäle", which led me to "microchannel plates" and even a "microchannel x-ray detector". Would be a rather gross misspelling, though, but then, some people take the Neue Deutsche Rechtschreibung pretty far... ;-)

Of course, you have to check back with the customer, as everybody else has already pointed out.
Reference:

http://cfi.lbl.gov/instrumentation/Pubs/xray_design.pdf

Note from asker:
I'll check of course, but by jove, I think you got it! Combining James' "array" with your "microchannel" I came across this "X-ray image intensifier tube having a photocathode and a scintillator screen positioned on a microchannel array" (http://www.freepatentsonline.com/5319189.html). It even mentions scintillators, which must be good. I'll wait a while before grading so I can include what the customer says.
Peer comment(s):
agree Anne Schulz : Genial - "kahnell" = "canal" = "channel"!
10 mins
Herzlich Dank für das Kompliment, Anne! Ich bin gern genial - jetzt muss es nur noch stimmen... ;-)
agree Ford Prefect : It's definitely getting warmer//a mere 26 south of the Alps
1 hr
Thank you, James. Actually, it's getting hot: +30°C this afternoon... ;-)
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4 KudoZ points awarded for this answer. Comment: "Selected automatically based on peer agreement."
+1
1 hr

microcannula matrices

A microcannula suitable for cannulation of very small blood vessels having a sharp pointed ...
www.patentstorm.us/class/156/296-Strands,_rods,_tubes_or_st... -

... as soft agar or the formation of tubular networks or weblike matrices in a three - dimensional basement membrane or extracellular matrix preparation . ...
appft1.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-.

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Note added at 1 hr (2006-06-13 00:02:28 GMT)
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or 'microcannular matrices'

Note from asker:
Thanks, good thinking. A misspelling/variation of Kanüle perhaps?
Peer comment(s):
agree Richard Benham : I was about to write that "canula" and its derivatives had only one "n", but I checked my dictionary and found that both single and double "n" are accepted.
7 hrs
thanks
neutral Ford Prefect : The matrix reference refers to _extracellular_ matrix - nothing to do with X-ray detectors/screens. It's hard to imagine the maufacture of or utility of a matrix of microcannulae.
7 hrs
thanks
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8 hrs

microcalorimeter arrays

This answer might be relevant if it refers to the X-ray detector, but probably not if it refers to the design of the screen (bildschirm). There are a few good hits for microcalorimeters being used in astronomy, but I cannot find anything directly relevant to medical imaging - hence low confidence. That said, your sentence sounds like a patent or research paper, so if it's brand new, how many hits do you expect?

I strongly recommend you confirm the spelling and meaning of the word with your client.


Results 1 - 10 of about 178 for development high-resolution x-ray scintillator microcalorimeter

Results 1 - 10 of about 330 for "microcalorimeter arrays".

Results 1 - 10 of about 30 for "microcalorimeter arrays" medicine.
Reference:

http://www.slac.stanford.edu/spires/find/hep/www?indexer=1&rawcmd=find+irn+4711084

Note from asker:
Thanks for the thoughts. I will definitely check with the customer. This sentence is actually how the company describes itself in a directory listing and pretty much all I have to go on. http://db.adt-online.de/izbm.asp?AK=DET&PG=1&FA=2146523149&SL=37&SU=-1&SRC=OWZ&FT=
Peer comment(s):
neutral Richard Benham : This is a clever idea, but it is sticking one's neck out far too far to use without checking with the client (as you rightly suggest).
3 hrs
Here comes a chopper to chop off your head...
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