Therac-25 is a computer-controlled radiation therapy machine produced by Atomic Energy of Canada Limited (AECL) in 1982 after the Therac-6 and Therac-20...
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Hospital was the site of two incidents, wherein hospital staff used a Therac-25 machine to treat cancer patients. Due to a coding error in the machine...
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security Radioactive scrap metal 2000 Samut Prakan radiation accident Therac-25 "Sources and Effects of Ionizing Radiation: 2008 UNSCEAR Report" (PDF)...
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orphan source incidents 1990 Clinic of Zaragoza radiotherapy accident Therac-25 Blakeslee, Sandra (May 1, 1984). "Nuclear Spill At Juarez Looms As One...
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May, 1984. Between 1985 and 1987, a series of design flaws in AECL's Therac-25 medical accelerator caused massive overdoses of radiation on 6 different...
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systems can be disastrous. Race conditions were among the flaws in the Therac-25 radiation therapy machine, which led to the death of at least three patients...
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effect. Software bugs have been linked to disasters. Software bugs in the Therac-25 radiation therapy machine were directly responsible for patient deaths...
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the problem actually exacerbated it. A bug in the code controlling the Therac-25 radiation therapy machine was directly responsible for at least five patient...
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Fabio, Adam (October 26, 2015). "Killed By A Machine: The Therac-25". Hackday. Retrieved 25 April 2021. Shum, Edward Y. "Accidental Release of UF6 at...
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should have received therapy at 7 MeV were instead treated at 40 MeV. Therac-25 Ionizing radiation List of civilian radiation accidents Radioactive scrap...
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