Cassen Radioisotope Scanner
date: label: date made
content: ca 1950
notes: label: Description
content: Benedict Cassen (1902-1972) was a graduate of the Royal College of Science in London with a Ph.D. from the California Institute of Technology. While working with colleagues at the Laboratory for Nuclear Medicine at the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA), Cassen developed a radioisotope scanner to delineate the distribution of radioisotopes within a human body. This scanner, unveiled in 1951, was initially used to obtain images of the thyroid gland in patients after the administration of radioactive iodine. In the words of the Los Angeles Times, it “was soon recognized as one of the most vital links in harnessing radioactive byproducts of A-bomb manufacture to the improvement of human health.” This is that instrument.
label: Description
content: Ref: “Atom Robot Artist Sketches Thyroid,” Los Angeles Times (May 27, 1851), p. 43.
label: Description
content: “Dr. Benedict Cassen, Nuclear Expert, Dies,” Los Angeles Times (March 29, 1972), p. C4.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Mrs. Benedict Cassen through Dr. W. G. Blahd
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.303442.01
label: accession number
content: 303442
label: catalog number
content: 302442.01
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Scanner
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
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