Therac-25
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therac-25-180-4437260
title:
Therac-25
text:
The 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 units. The Therac-25 was involved in at least six accidents between 1985 and 1987, in which some patients were given massive overdoses of radiation. Because of concurrent programming errors, it sometimes gave its patients radiation doses that were hundreds of times greater than normal, resulting in death or serious injury. These accidents hi
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wiki
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encyclopedia
description:
Radiotherapy machine involved in six accidents
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Therac-25
date created:
2003-09-10T03:00:55Z
date modified:
2024-09-05T08:00:58Z
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