artefacts: 31
This data as json
| rowid | artifactNumber | ObjectName | GeneralDescription | model | SerialNumber | Manufacturer | ManuCountry | ManuProvince | ManuCity | BeginDate | EndDate | date_qualifier | patent | NumberOfComponents | ArtifactFinish | ContextCanada | ContextFunction | ContextTechnical | group1 | category1 | subcategory1 | group2 | category2 | subcategory2 | group3 | category3 | subcategory3 | material | Length | Width | Height | Thickness | Weight | Diameter | image | thumbnail | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 31 | 1966.0043.001 | Therapy machine cobalt | METAL SYNTHETIC & WOOD COMPONENTS. | THERATRON JUNIOR/C | 15 | Atomic Energy of Canada Ltd. | Canada | Ontario | Ottawa | 1956 | CANADIAN & US PATENTS PENDING PRINTED ON MFR'S PLATE. | 2 | PAINTED MEDIUM GREEN ENAMEL; PLATED PARTS; BLACK SYNTHETIC CABLES. | THIS COBALT THERAPY MACHINE WAS MFD BY AECL A WORLD LEADER IN APPLYING NUCLEAR TECHNOLOGY FOR MEDICAL PURPOSES. AECL IS ALSO A MAJOR SUPPLIER OF RADIOACTIVE SOURCE MATERIAL (RADIOISOTOPES) FOR THERAPY. | TO DELIVER COBALT-60 (RADIOACTIVE ISOTOPE OF COBALT) RADIATION USED IN TREATMENT OF MALIGNANT TUMOURS. | COBALT BEAM THERAPY INVOLVES THE USE OF GAMMA RADIATION FROM A COBALT-60SOURCE MOUNTED IN A COBALT BOMB. THIS BOMB CONSISTS OF A QUANTITY OF COBALT-60 MOUNTED IN A LEAD WALLED HOUSING WITH A LEAD PLUG WHICH CAN BE REMOVED TO RELEASE A BEAM OF GAMMA RAYS. THESE RAYS ARE DIRECTED AT MALIGNANT TUMOUR SITES. THE "JUNIOR" MODEL WAS PRODUCED UNTIL 1961 & WAS VERY POPULAR: 137 UNITS WERE MFD. (S.I. NOTES) | Medical Technology | Radiology | Radiation equipment | metal;synthetic;wood | 262 | 117 | 178 | 2404.1 (approx.) kg | http://source.techno-science.ca/artifacts-artefacts/images/1966.0043.001.aa.cs.png | http://source.techno-science.ca/artifacts-artefacts/images/1966.0043.001.aa.cs.thumb.png |
