Regator Localizer
notes: label: Description
content: Juan A. del Regato (1909-1999) was a Cuban physician who emigrated to the United States in 1938. This is an early example of the localizer that he devised in 1934, while working at the Radium Institute in Paris. It indicated where a radiation beam would strike the patient.
label: Description
content: Ref: Juan A. del Regato, Cancer: Diagnosis, Treatment and Prognosis (New York, 1947).
label: Description
content: Juan A. del Regato, Radiological Oncologists: The Unfolding of a Medical Specialty (1993).
label: Description
content: “Juan del Regato, 90, an Expert in Radiation Therapy for Cancer,” New York Times (June 22, 1999), p. B8.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: Subject
content: Cuban Americans
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content: Medicine and Science: Physical Sciences
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1984.0702.01
label: catalog number
content: 1984.0702.01
label: accession number
content: 1984.0702
objectType: label: Object Name
content: localizer
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 7 3/4 in x 10 1/4 in x 18 1/4 in; 19.685 cm x 26.035 cm x 46.355 cm