Cobalt blues : the story of Leonard Grimmett, the man behind the first Cobalt-60 unit in the United States
For the latter half of the 20th century, cobalt-60 units were the mainstay of radiation treatments for cancer. Cobalt Blues describes the development of the first cobalt-60 unit in the United States and the man behind it, Leonard Grimmett. Conceptually conceived before World War II, it only became p...
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| Médium: | Livre numérique |
| Jazyk: | Anglais |
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New York, NY :
Springer New York
2013.
Cham : Springer Nature |
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| Edition sous un autre format: | • Cobalt Blues, Texte imprimé, 9781461449232 • Cobalt Blues, Texte imprimé, 9781461449256 • Cobalt Blues, Texte imprimé, 9781489995209 |
Obsah:
- Foreword
- Prologue
- M.D. Anderson Cancer Center 1941-1946
- The Journey, January 29 to February 7, 1949
- Early Life and Education, London 1903-1929
- Medical Physicist Part I, London 1929-1944
- The Unknown Years and UNESCO Paris, 1944-1948
- Replacing Radium 1937-1949
- Arrival, Houston February 1949
- The Cobalt Unit 1949-1954
- Medical Physicist Part II, Houston 1949-1951
- Cobalt-60 and the Notebook
- Cobalt-60 in Perspective
- Epilogue: Grimmett the Man
- Appendix A: Principles of Radiotherapy
- Appendix B: Principles of Reactor Production of Cobalt-60
- Appendix C: Grimmett s Suggested References on Cobalt-60.