Plumbicon camera tubes revolutionized television broadcast when they were invented in the early 1960’s. Since then CCD-based cameras have replaced them in all new broadcast equipment, however, the Plumbicon tube still finds a home in some of the World’s most sophisticated medical imaging equipment. The documents below give an overview of the operation of these fascinating devices, information on their practical use and background on the test procedures used at Narragansett Imaging to measure the performance of our tubes.

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