Glossary entry

French term or phrase:

irrégularités en marches d'escalier

English translation:

(results in) a stair-step effect

Added to glossary by Linda Brunet
Jul 9, 2009 00:40
14 yrs ago
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French term

irrégularités en marches d'escalier

French to English Medical Medical (general) optics
From a description of the drawbacks of a particular excimer laser corneal ablation procedure:

Cependant, l'ouverture ou la fermeture progressive du diaphragme lors du traitement, aboutit à des irrégularités en marches d'escalier, source d'astigmatisme.
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Jul 23, 2009 08:19: Linda Brunet Created KOG entry

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(results in) a stair-step effect

Based on the previous explanation...
Peer comment(s):

agree SJLD : also "step-like" or "stair-like" - referring to the profile, surface of the cornea
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agree liz askew : oooohhh!
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agree whither has fle : absolutely!
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4 KudoZ points awarded for this answer. Comment: "Selected automatically based on peer agreement."
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irregularities/abnormalities in stair steps

Refractive/diffractive infrared imager and optics - US Patent ... - [ Traduire cette page ]... spherical surfaces, introduce field aberrations including astigmatism and coma. ... resulting in a "stair-step" approximation to the desired profile. ...
www.patentstorm.us/patents/5973827/description.html - Pages similaires
Glossary :: LaserSoft Imaging - [ Traduire cette page ]Astigmatism - lines in some directions are focused less sharply than lines in other ... Aliasing gives lines a "stair-step" or "jaggie" appearance. ...
www.silverfast.com/glossar/a/en.html - En cache - Pages similaires
OUTLINE TECHNICAL SPECIFICATION 1.1 The Microvision Fl at Screen ... - [ Traduire cette page ]These control the astigmatism of the picture (not adjustable) and prevent edge effects .... This feeds the line integrators with a stair-step waveform, ...
www.feertech.com/andy/.../service_manual.txt - En cache - Pages similaires
[PDF] Liquid Crystal in Precision Optical Devices - [ Traduire cette page ]Format de fichier: PDF/Adobe Acrobat - Version HTML
... crystal device and forming a series of integer 2π stair step phase ramps ... amount of tilt and astigmatic aberration generated in a test cell as the ...
www.meadowlark.com/.../Liquid Crystal in Precision Optical ... - Pages similaires
de R Herke - 1999 - Autres articles
Raster scan gaussian beam writing strategy and method for pattern ... - [ Traduire cette page ]9 is a simplified illustration of astigmatic line shaped beam optics of an embodiment of .... 1a, each "stair step" of deflection trajectory 64 has a width ...
www.freepatentsonline.com/6274290.html - Pages similaires
de LH Veneklasen - 2001 - Cité 3 fois - Autres articles
Peer comment(s):

neutral liz askew : Has this patient got something wrong with his stairs?//It is very ambiguous to say the least:-)
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We are talking about the response Liz. I thought it was clear
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relevant article

I'm sorry I can't access the full text - but this is helpful I think.

Ablation of the cornea and synthetic polymers using a UV (213 nm ...s) and they leave a step-like contour to the cornea surface when using an aperture wheel [12] or discretely expanding and constricting diaphragms ...
ieeexplore.ieee.org/iel1/3/2327/00064366.pdf
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