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4 unusual facts about Scanners


AS-Interface

In order to retain full forward and backward compatibility, the size of the data frame exchanged between the network master (Scanners and Gateways) was not increased.

Hell Bound

Scanners: After Pavayne murders the psychic, Gunn says "I know they used to call Spike 'William the Bloody', but why would he go all Scanners on her?"

Pierre David

David is best known for executive-producing iconic films directed by David Cronenberg, such as Scanners, Videodrome, and The Brood.

Scanner Cop

It is the fourth film in the Scanners series and the first film in the Scanner Cop series.


Ali Javan

They were used in everything from UPC checkout scanners, video disc players to medical and monitoring technologies and laser printers.

Appscend

Appscend is the first mobile platform to incorporate In App Purchases, Layar Player, QR code scanners.

BJC HealthCare

The current facility houses the Charles F. Knight Emergency and Trauma Center, which is a 52,000-square-foot, 61-bed Level I trauma center that includes two full-body CT scanners and six trauma/critical care rooms.

CT pulmonary angiogram

State of the art Modern CT scanners with a scan rate of up to 320 mm/s can acquire all the images within a 1 second X-ray exposure, avoiding the problems of respiratory motion, cardiac motion and contrast draining from the pulmonary circulation during the study.

Digital ICE

LaserSoft Imaging released an infrared dust and scratch removal tool (iSRD - infrared Smart Removal of Defects) in 2008, that allows Nikon's film scanners for Mac OS X, as well as many scanners from other manufacturers to make high quality scans of Kodachrome slides.

Eastern Youth

Eastern Youth was formed as Scanners in 1989 by childhood friends Hisashi Yoshino and Atsuya Tamori in Sapporo, Hokkaidō.

Full body scanner

The Australia government has been challenged over the effectiveness and cost of full body scanners by public media to which Australian Transport Minister Anthony Albanese has said he "makes no apologies" for mandating the installation of full body scanners at Australian airports.

Government Medical College, Thrissur

TMCAA have also provided teaching materials, audio visual equipment, furnitures, computers, academic bulletin board, surgical instruments, instruments for pre-clinical medical training, high quality Histology teaching slides, medical journals and books, TVs, chairs, scanners and printers & LCD projectors to various departments.

Grete Waitz

This could be as much as NOK 500 million per year, which would go to the establishment of hospital physical training centres and investment in PET-scanners.

Hu Haifeng

Hu Haifeng was the president of Nuctech, a Tsinghua University-owned company created in the late 1990s to make large scanners for shipping, trucking containers and railway cars, as well as luggage scanners and metal detectors for airports.

Ignition SCADA

Current drivers include A-B Suite, ModbusTCP, Siemens Ethernet, and Simple TCP/UDP, allowing users to connect to a multitude of devices such as PLCs, solar cells, lights, generators, flow meters, bar code scanners, etc.

Inductive Automation

Current drivers include A-B Suite, ModbusTCP and Simple TCP/UDP, allowing users to connect to a multitude of devices such as PLCs, solar cells, lights, generators, flow meters, bar code scanners, etc.

Jewish Digital Archive Project

Taking place in South Africa in a Post- Apartheid era with new digital technology like Adobe Photoshop Lightroom websites and scanners, the project aims to create innovative ways of understanding and preserving legacies from the past.

Optical reader

An optical reader is a device found within most computer scanners that captures visual information and translates the image into digital information the computer is capable of understanding and displaying.

Overvoltage

Filters are used to prevent spikes entering or leaving the equipment through wires, and the devices coupled electromagnetically to space (such as radio-frequency pick-up coils in MRI scanners) are protected by shielding.

QR code

QR codes can be used in Google's Android, BlackBerry OS, Nokia Symbian Belle and Apple iOS devices (iPhone/iPod/iPad), as well as Microsoft's Windows Phone operating system, Google Goggles, 3rd party barcode scanners, and the Nintendo 3DS.

Radiation Exposure Monitoring

Newer scanners are able to create DICOM Radiation Dose Structured Reports (RDSRs) alongside the images themselves.

Radiofrequency coil

This signal consists of true EM radiation (radio waves), and these leave the subject as RF radiation, but they are of such low power as to also not cause appreciable RF interference that can be picked up by nearby radio tuners (in addition, MRI scanners are generally situated in metal mesh lined rooms which act as Faraday cages.)

Technicare

Technicare, formerly known as Ohio Nuclear, was a maker of CT, DR and MRI scanners and other medical imaging equipment.

Tigertrap Records

Their first single, 586's We Got Bored became a sizeable indie club hit and NME awarded it 'Runner Up Single Of The Week' in May '06. The second release was Lowlife by Scanners, which went on to be featured in a Jeff Bridges film, Mama's Boy.

ZipGenius

ZipGenius features include: support for TWAIN devices (scanners and digital cameras), file extraction to CD/DVD burner (only under Windows XP), an FTP client (FTPGenius), and ZGAlbum.


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