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
type:
radium teletherapy apparatus
credit:
Middlesex Hospital (Radiotherapy Dept.)