DOE Openness: Human Radiation Experiments: Multimedia Historical Photographs

Historical Photographs

Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory 1. A whole body counter (circa 1964) at the Berkeley Donner Laboratory. Such counters were used in human radiation tracer studies and for measuring AEC worker radiation exposure. (294Kbytes) 2. Early treatment for Parkinson's disease at the Berkeley Donner Laboratory (134Kbytes) 3. Donner Laboratory carbon-14 metabolic study apparatus (146Kbytes) 4. Respiration analysis using injected radioactive tracers at Donner Laboratory (circa 1968). (217Kbytes) 5. A patient under a positron camera. The camera was a diagnostic tool developed at Donner Laboratory, Berkeley, to photograph radioactive tracer concentrations. Unlike a whole body scanner, this device photographs a single, specific area of the body. (146Kbytes) 6. A kidney examination using a scintillation camera at Donner Laboratory, Berkeley. (152Kbytes) 7. A patient prepared for treatment with charged atomic particles at Lawrence Radiation Laboratory (now Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory) (265Kbytes) 8. Early use of a Geiger-Müller counter to test thyroid function at Lawrence Radiation Laboratory. (260Kbytes) 9. Joseph Hamilton (left) conducting one of the first isotope metabolism studies during the 1930s. The study took place at the Lawrence Radiation Laboratory (now Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory). (173Kbytes)