Re: Shoe store fluoro units??

["George Anastas" <ANASTASG@facmgmtserver.fm.csus.edu>]

> Date:          Thu, 27 Oct 94 09:26:53 -0500
> Reply-to:      radsafe@romulus.ehs.uiuc.edu
> From:          John Moulder <jmoulder@post.its.mcw.edu>
> To:            Multiple recipients of list <radsafe@romulus.ehs.uiuc.edu>
> Subject:       Shoe store fluoro units??

> Until some time in the 1950's many shoe stores in the US has fluoroscopy 
> units that allowed a customer to check the fit of their shoes.
> 
> Someone must have done dosimetry on these units, but I cannot find any 
> references.  
> 
> I'd also be interested in when they were banned, and by whom
> 
> John Moulder (jmoulder@its.mcw.edu)
> Radiation Biology Group
> Medical College of Wisconsin
> 
> 
> Dear John:
Inofrmation about she fitting fluoroscopes can be found in one of my 
Health Physics "bibles", Radiation Hygiene Handbook, edited by Hanson 
Blatz (page 3-34), see also the editorial, Shoe Fitting Fluoroscopes, 
J. Am. Med. Assoc., vol 15, pp. 1004-1005, 1949 and Moyers et al., 
Radiation Exposure in She Stores, N.Y. State Department of Labor 
Monthly Rev. Divieion of Industrial Hygiene, vol. 31, pp. 33-40, 
1952.  
{Frank Bradley was a major player at the NYS Dept. of Labor.  His 
address is in the HPS Membership Directory.}
Page 13-8 of the Handbook contains recommendations and refers to the 
work by Hempelman, L.H., Potential Dangers of the Uncontrolled USe of 
Shoe-Fitting Fluoroscopes, New England Journal of Medicine, vol.241, 
p. 333, 1949.   Hanson Blatz also published a text called Introduction to 
Radiological Health (I can't find my copy) where, I recall, he had 
quite a bit of information about the suject.
I hope this helps
Let me know how your search progresses.

George Anastas, CHP.
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