Cancer Research (1936)

Title reads ’Model No. 6. 1936.’ Screens with following intertitles follow: ’Four grammes of radium are now used. Radium skin distance is fixed at 7 cm. Two bomb heads are used with fields of different diameter. Small field - 3.5 cm diameter, large field - 9.0 cm diameter. Radium is transferred from the safe to one or the other bomb head by means of an electrically controlled mechanism consisting of the following parts: a) Lead safe containing a miniature lift. b) Control panel, with levers operating the electrical switches. c) Overhead gear which lowers and raises the bomb and rotates it from safe to patient and back. Diagram of treatment room and apparatus. Radium safe and miniature lift. Control panel. Automatic lading of radium from safe into bomb. Application of radium. Rotation of bomb. Lowering of bomb. Insertion of bomb into cup applied to patient.’ Close up shot of the control panel of the new cancer treatment machinery - presumably radium safe. Doctor’s hand
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