Interview with Juan Del Regato [videorecording] / recorded by the American Association of Physicists in Medicine History Committee ; 1993, February 9.

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Interview with Juan Del Regato [videorecording] / recorded by the American Association of Physicists in Medicine History Committee ; 1993, February 9.

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Topics discussed include his medical education in Cuba; his study of radiology at the Radium Institute in Paris; radiation therapy; his development of the Regato vaginal specula and the Regato localizer; his relationship with Marie Curie and her family; dosymetry in high voltage therapy; the development of the cascade transformer; his work at the National Cancer Institute; the establishment of the Penrose Cancer Hospital; the history of the American Society for Therapeutic Radiology and Oncology; the use of radiation therapy for AIDS patients; the attitude of the public regarding radiation; and the use of radiation for non-cancerous diseases such as arthritus.

1 videocassette (103 min.) : sd., col. ; 1/2 in.

American Institute of Physics, Niels Bohr Library

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