抄録
In the first few years following the medical use of x rays together with radium, there was almost a complete lack of radiation protection, due to an ignorance of the hazards involved. The history of their development are reviewed.
In this paper, we describe the sealed-source lead safe for storage, drawer assembly, lead bed shielding for the protection of radium sources, telecurie unit and occupational exposure of physicians and nurses in radium-loading procedures, especially of radium nurses exposed to fingers, back, stomach, breasts and eyes of radium nurses of the Cancer Institute Hospital, Tokyo.
