Can some one identify this?

[glondor]

I found this little item in a load of scrap and wonder if any one can identify it. Google points to medical equipment but I cannot identify. ELSCINT CANADA LTD SERIAL 13300

Thanks.

 

[jimdoc]

This looks like info on the company;

http://www.fundinguniverse.com/company-histories/Elscint-Ltd-Company-History.html

Jim

 

[glondor]

Thanks Jimdoc. Looks like the company had a rough ride. They specialized in diagnostic equipment. I hope this thing is inert!

 

[macfixer01]

The construction of the device certainly doesn't give any clue to it's purpose. That looks like just an ordinary green LED inside it and not much else. Maybe a photocell or something at the other end of the housing. Have you tested to see if the outside is gold plated? It looks like it could be just brass or anodized aluminum.

macfixer01

 

[glondor]

The company's Toronto location made gamma ray cameras.

 

[Militoy]

Interesting piece of hardware for sure. Elscint Canada was part of a group of related companies (originating from Israel) - Elbit; Elscint; Elron; El-op, etc. As mentioned above, they made diagnostic X-ray equipment, Heli-CAT CT scan equipment, mammography equipment, and related devices. One type of support equipment they built was fiber-optic light sources to work with their imaging equipt. My guess is that you have a medical fiber-optic light source of some kind.

 

[oldgoldman]

I wouldn't worry about any radioactivity, since it isn't specifically marked. It looks like it may be one of their PMT ( photo multiplying tubes ), which pick up the nuclear signal given off from the patient and picked up by the gamma camera. It could also just be a plain old light to light up a bore space for patient lighting.

 

[Ocean]

Is that the thing that would turn you into Green Lantern? :shock:

 

[glondor]

I could be a superhero? Cool. Lemmee see how to plug this in............zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzap

 

[Findm-Keepm]

Scintillator Counter/Detector? Looks like some I've seen....

Cheers,

 

[macfixer01]

Interesting piece of hardware for sure. Elscint Canada was part of a group of related companies (originating from Israel) - Elbit; Elscint; Elron; El-op, etc. As mentioned above, they made diagnostic X-ray equipment, Heli-CAT CT scan equipment, mammography equipment, and related devices. One type of support equipment they built was fiber-optic light sources to work with their imaging equipt. My guess is that you have a medical fiber-optic light source of some kind.

I considered it might be a fiber optic cable coming off the output side opposite the LED. The thing that seemed weird is both the input and output connectors look the same in the photo (maybe BNC's?), but the input side must be feeding power to the LED? So I made the assumption there were wires connecting to the other side also and not fiber.

 

[joem]

I could be a superhero? Cool. Lemmee see how to plug this in............zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzap

I'm already a super hero

 

[EDI Refining]

hahahaha Joe your something else

 

[glondor]

Um. Hope everything comes out OK. :lol: