coded-aperture mask telescope

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concept

A coded-aperture mask telescope is an imaging system that uses a patterned mask of opaque and transparent elements in front of a position-sensitive detector to reconstruct images of high-energy or otherwise difficult-to-focus radiation through computational decoding of the shadow pattern.

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generate a one-sentence description for a given conceptual class.
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Return only the sentence: "Description: [one-sentence description of the conceptional class]"
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Class: coded-aperture mask telescope
Generated description
A coded-aperture mask telescope is an imaging system that uses a patterned mask of opaque and transparent elements in front of a position-sensitive detector to reconstruct images of high-energy or otherwise difficult-to-focus radiation through computational decoding of the shadow pattern.

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