Medical device design transfer

This experience was based on the merging of the CT data of the temporal bone and those obtained by the computer-aided design files of the medical devices, both transferred to a VR environment to achieve a simulation of the surgical implantation procedure. 

Irradiation equipment won acceptance much more easily in medical circles, where CPD already sold most of its products. In the early 1950s, people in the nuclear field were excited about the possibilities of their technology and preoccupied with the notion that almost anything could be improved through irradiation. Irradiation experiments had to be conducted within shielded containers to prevent radiation leakage. Sometimes the researchers at Tunney s Pasture used a beam therapy-unit head loaded with a cobalt-60 source at other times they used the cases designed to transfer cobalt-60 sources. As they adapted these pieces of equipment for experiments, it occurred to them that there would probably be a market for a device constructed specifically for the purpose. Best of all, equipment of this sort would provide another outlet for CPD s cobaIt-60. Discussions with possible customers at universities, research laboratories, and hospitals confirmed that they could use such a device either to experiment with irradiations or to irradiate small amounts of material on a routine basis. 

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