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Tom Phillips <[log in to unmask]>
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Wed, 28 Aug 1996 21:31:28 -0500
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Is there a e-mail or phone number where we can call for the same brochure?
 
>I've just had a flyer about a product which seems too good to be
>true - the Pixera slow-scan CCD camera, which apparently gets a
>resolution of 4x the actual CCD array pixels.
>
>Does anyone know anything about this device?  In particular:
>
>1. How does it get the resolution - they just say 'proprietary optical
>technology' but their flyers insist it's not just interpolation.
>Kontron do it my moving the chip behind a mask, but their camera is
>ten times the price, and their technology presumably sewn up by
>patents.
>
>2. What is its performance like - SN ratio, sensitivity and reliability
>in the real world.
>
>If this is for real then maybe I might even get serious about experimenting
>with deconvolution!
>
>                                        Guy Cox
 
Thomas E. Phillips, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Biological Sciences
Director, Molecular Cytology Core Facility
3 Tucker Hall
University of Missouri
Columbia, MO 65211
(573)-882-4712 (voice)
(573)-882-0123 (fax)

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