Gwen Prout stamp collection vol.138 Radiology #3

The volume comprises a collection of stamps, first day covers, biographies, articles and notes on the theme of radiology. The stamps come from all over the world covering Europe, North America, South America, Africa and Asia. Additional items are in volumes 136, 137 and 139.

The following people, themes, events and institutions are represented in the volume:

Radiation therapy

Cancer detection

Queen Sirikit Centre for Breast Cancer

Punch cards/Hollerith cards for automated data processing

World Congress of Gastroenterology, 2002

Diagnostic radiology

Chester Floyd Carlson and xeroradiography

Thermography

Nobel Prize in Medicine, 1979, for computerized axial tomography

Silver Jubilee Year of Nepal Cancer Relief Society, 2007