coded mask

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coded mask [′kōd·əd ‚mask]

(engineering)

A pattern of tungsten blocks that absorb gamma-ray photons in a gamma-ray telescope, and are arranged so that an astronomical gamma-ray source projects on a position-sensitive detector a pattern that is characteristic of the direction of arrival of the photons.

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