image dissector

image dissector
noun
: a camera tube resembling the iconoscope and having the electronic image focused electromagnetically through an aperture and voltages that are subsequently amplified and transmitted as television-picture signals being produced by electron multiplication

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a form of television camera tube in which an electron image produced by a photoemitting surface is focused in the plane of an aperture and deflected past the aperture to achieve scanning. Also called dissector tube.
[1930-35]

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image dissector,
a device used in early television cameras, similar to the iconoscope. Instead of a beam scanning the image, the image is focused through an aperture which breaks it up into a series of lines.

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