X-ray Shoe-Fitting Machines
X-ray machines, called "fluoroscopes", designed to check the fit of shoes
were patented in the 1920s and were common fixtures in shoe stores from the late 1920s through the 1950s
- some remained in use as late as the 1970s.
Radiologists today only expose patients to the minimum radiation
necessary and carefully avoid exposing themselves at all. In
contrast, shoe-fitting fluoroscopes were badly designed, were used by barely-trained shoe salesmen and gave a considerable dose of radiation to
the feet and salesman's hands as well as some to the head, eyes and thyroid.
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