Display of glass plate xrays
Dear Ms. Britton,
 
As a suggestion, you may want to look into electroluminescent lighting.  This is the light source used in backlighting cell phones, watches (Timex Indiglo), car instrument panels, and many more things.  It's benefits are as follows: No heat, thin as a credit card (about 0.025" thick), flexible, and it emits light almost exclusively in the visible spectrum (hardly any UV or Infrared -I am not sure how this plays into lighting an x-ray).  E-Lite Technologies makes a version called FLATLITE that can be easily customized (widths from 1/4" to 30") and is made on a long roll hundreds of feet long.  It is not the 'brightest' light source, but it is perfect for some lower level ambient light applications.  It has been used in museums as case lighting, and other things such as lighting rare artifacts and documents, recently at the Brooklyn Museum of Art, Civil Rights Museum (Nashville), Art Gallery of Ontario, and Houston Museum of Natural Science.  If you would like to see if this may be the answer, I'd be happy to help, and you may email me privately.  We have been working with it for quite some time but have recently discovered a demand in the exhibit/museum arena due to it's unique properties.
 
Sincerely,
 
Anthony E. Passeri
E-Lite Technologies, Inc.
www.e-lite.com
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Sent: Wednesday, April 27, 2005 11:21 AM
Subject: [MUSEUM-L] Display of glass plate xrays

Good morning all -

I work at a medical museum/archives that is part of a hospital. As a result, we do collaborative exhibits from time to time with hospital departments. Our next one is with the radiology department - basically showing the development of the process from my understanding (the meeting about it is next Tuesday).

As part of the exhibit, the docs would like to display at least one constantly lit glass plate/lantern slide xray. I have no idea as yet if it would be direct or indirect lighting and how the xray would be supported within the exhibit. Needless to say, this whole idea makes me very nervous. My thinking is that the constant exposure to light would not be good for the xray, not to mention the effect the heat of the case/light combo and support methods on the plate's emulsion. Does these sound like reasonable objections and can anyone give any others that I can take to the docs on Tuesday?

Many thanks!
Kathleen

Kathleen Emerson Britton
Curator of Collections and Education
Baker-Cederberg Museum and Archives
(585) 922-3521 / [log in to unmask]




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