1950 · Rectilinear Radioisotope Scanner · Work 1017 of 1,871
A scanning room of a hospital in Sydney on a hot summer afternoon, frosted windows glowing white, an electric fan turning, beside an empty padded couch with a folded white sheet a waist-high green metal cabinet with chrome-framed panels, two round dials, plain with bare pointers, rows of small black knobs, from its left side a green swing arm holding a thick green cylindrical detector head over the pillow end of the couch, at its right a printing unit with a paper roller, on the paper a dense oval pattern of short dark strokes, a hand in a white coat sleeve feeding in a fresh sheet, every panel plain and unmarked.