Nipkow disk
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Nipkow disk
[′nip·kō ‚disk] (computer science)
In optical character recognition, a disk having one or more spirals of holes around the outer edge, with successive openings positioned so that rotation of the disk provides mechanical scanning, as of a document.
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific & Technical Terms, 6E, Copyright © 2003 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.
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In the scanning-disk-type confocal microscopes, multiple pinholes are located on a spinning
Nipkow disk. The pinholes simultaneously illuminate many points on the specimen and also filter out the unwanted scattered light originating from regions not illuminated by the focused image of the pinholes.
Systems incorporating
Nipkow disks and similar scanning head technologies are overcoming some of the problems that limited their applications in decades past.
But Stashower's explanations of
Nipkow disks, oscillite tubes, image dissectors and photoelectric chemicals bog down these anecdotes.
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