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vidicon [′vid·ə‚kän]
(electronics)
A camera tube in which a charge-density pattern is formed by photoconduction and stored on a photoconductor surface that is scanned by an electron beam, usually of low-velocity electrons; used chiefly in industrial television cameras.


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It now makes its images with a television-like vidicon tube, which the instrument's chief scientist, Arthur Hundhausen of the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colo.
The gossamer ring at first went unnoticed because of its faintness in early versions of images made with Voyager's vidicon camera system.
 
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