Identifier: americanjournroen09ameruoft (find matches)
Title: The American journal of roentgenology, radium therapy and nuclear medicine
Year: 1906 (1900s)
Authors: American Radium Society American Roentgen Ray Society
Subjects: Radiotherapy X-rays
Publisher: Springfield, Ill. C.C. Thomas
Contributing Library: Gerstein - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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Showing general arrangement of radium workroom,with bench and shelving. Note protective curvedbody shields. reckon with the accumulated gamma radia-tion, and to combat its influence. It is thecustom in most laboratories to alternateoperators, arranging for one month inthe radium room and one month at otherduties. A tabulated blood-count record,made at stated intervals, of all exposed toradium radiation, serves as a guide to theworking time permitted in the radiumroom. Tunnel and finger cot with attachments for preparingradium tubes, relieving fingers from contact withradium. excellent and simple procedure for takingcare of this type of applicator. In handlingradium tubes, we use small tunnels, ad-justed to convenient brackets in the shelf,which feed the containers into whateverreceptacle fits the case, finger cots beingcommonly employed. The same sort ofarrangement is used for the surface pla-ques, which are finally mounted on aflat wooden stick or metallic handle. In
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handled appliances f<oi needle. hold on It is a good habit, in making up radiumpackages, to prepare all the accessories inadvance, so that the actual time period ofthe radium contact may be as short aspossible. On removing a package from apatient where adhesive plaster is used, thetime element of contact can be materiallylessened In dropping the mass into a cup Solid lead block for housing radium needles, eye only protruding for threading. both cases, it is found unnecessary to usethe bare hands. Many dealers in radium are offeringto the operators excellent protective de-vices, which have their various spheresof usefulness; and it is hoped that the da\of unnecessary injury to radium workers israpidly waning. THE AMERICAN JOURNAL OF ROENTGENOLOGY Editor: H. M. Imboden, M.D.Associate Editors: James T. Case, M.D. H. K. Pancoast, M.D. J. S. Shearer, Ph.D. Publisher: Paul B. Hoeber, New York Issued Monthly. Subscription, $6.00 per year. Advertising rates submitted on application. Editor

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