Re: Early fluoroscopy

[Gary W Isenhower <garyi@bcm.tmc.edu>]

  Dr. Stewart Busong of Houston Texas has an original shoe store 
fluoroscope in his office, as well as a number of other antique 
radiography memorabilia.  The machine does not work, unfortunately.


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Gary Isenhower AKA garyi@bcm.tmc.edu
Medical Physicist; Baylor College of Medicine; Houston, Texas
For the record: These MY opinions, ugh, not employer's.  :)

On Wed, 8 Nov 1995, JAMES BARNES wrote:

> I toured the ORAU facilities several years ago.  I think they had an operational 
> (not operating) model.
> 
> Jim Barnes
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> You wrote: 
> >
> >Some radsafers might remember the fluoroscopy machines which appeared for a
> >while in the children's department of shoe stores, where you could peer at
> >your wriggling metatarsals etc as often as you liked.  I guess those
> >machines ended up at the tip rather than the museum. Does anyone have a
> >health physics reference to them?
> >Jocelyn Towson
> >
> >
> >
> 
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