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Image Multipliers

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This chapter is necessarily brief, not as a measure of its importance, but rather as a measure of the simplicity of the principles involved and the relatively high degree of perfection of the available devices.

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Rose, A. (1973). Image Multipliers. In: Vision. Optical Physics and Engineering. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-2037-1_6

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