Equipment - The Royal Marsden Implantation Gun MK III and associated reference Materials

Historical information

Created in London the Gold Grain Implantation Gun would allow irradiated gold grains to be implanted into patients which would then decay in a desired area.

The first version of the implantation gun was designed by researchers, Hodt, Sinclair, and Smithers at the Cancer Hospital (Free) in England in 1952.

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