Scintillator with shield
Inventory Number2025-04-0003
Classification(not assigned)
Maker
Harvard Cyclotron Laboratory
1937 - 2002
User
Francis H. Burr Proton Therapy Center, Massachusetts General Hospital
founded 2001
User
Ethan W. Cascio
born 1960
DescriptionA blue iron cylinder contains a sodium iodide crystal joined to a photo tube inside, held in place with paper rings and a square plate screwed into the top of the tube. Inside tube is scinitllator labeled "Harnshaw NaI (TI) Integral line"
FunctionA NaI scintillator in the box flashes with a particle passes through it, which sends light down the photomultiplier tube.
ProvenanceHarvard Cyclotron Laboratory, Cambridge, MA, 1960s-2002; The Francis H. Burr Proton Therapy Center at Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, 2002-2021; transfer to CHSI, 2021.
Harvard Cyclotron Laboratory
Object number: 2025-04-0010
Harvard Cyclotron Laboratory
Date: circa 1960
Object number: 2003-1-0280
Harvard Cyclotron Laboratory
Object number: 2025-04-0011y
Chemistry Laboratory, Harvard College
Date: circa 1900
Object number: 4701
Harvard Cyclotron Laboratory
Object number: 2025-04-0011r