After publication of this paper the authors became aware of British Patent Specification 643,048 (1950), where the essentials of contrast generating arrangements as treated in their paper were already disclosed. According to the inventor, F. H. Smith, a working model was made at the time by Cooke, Troughton & Simms, Ltd.
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Lang et al. (1978) studied this question.