Treatment head with applicators from pneumatic transfer radium teletherapy machine

Made:: 1938 in London

Treatment head with applicators from pneumatic transfer radium teletherapy machine installed at the Meyerstein Institute of Radiotherapy, the Middlesex Hospital, in 1938 and used with a cobalt 60 source from 1955, by Bryant Symons and Co., London, 1938.

Details

Category:: Radiomedicine

Collection:: Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection

Object Number:: A639424

Materials:: iron, steel and lead-tungsten alloy

Measurements:: height 430 mm
length 980 mm
approx: width 690 mm
diameter 134 mm

type:: radium teletherapy apparatus

credit:: Middlesex Hospital (Radiotherapy Dept.)

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Treatment head from pneumatic transfer radium teletherapy machine installed at the Meyerstein Institute of Radiotherapy, the Middlesex Hospital, in 1938 and used with a cobalt 60 source from 1955, by Bryant Symons and Co., London, 1938.